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Tetranthera, DIOECIA ENNEANDRIA, 823 
pules none. Mare, Umbellets axillary, but chiefly under 
the leaves from the old axils, crowded, short-peduncled, 
but appearing in sessile heads, many being crowded 
together, small, of a dull yellow. IJnvolucre four-leaved, 
from four to five-flowered ; leaflets round, concave. Ca- 
lyx or perianth proper one-leaved, six-parted, exactly as 
in Laurus. Filaments nine exterior, and simple, from the 
base of the segments of the calyx, and three interior, or 
rather inferior, from its tube; these ‘have the glands of 
the Lauri; all are hairy. “Anthers four-celled. Germ 
none. Femare. Umbellets asin the male. Berries oblong, 
of the size of a field bean, black, smooth, succulent, one-cell- 
ed, seed solitary, conform to the berry. Perisperm one. 
Embryo inverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed. adicle 
superior, and considerably within the apex of the cotyle- 
dons. 
7. T. laurifolia, Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. i. p. 59. t. 113. 
Leaves cuneate, obovate, obtuse, smooth. 
Tomex Tetranthera. Willd. iv. 839. 
A small tree, a native of Bengal. It blossoms in May and 
June, and the seed ripens about the close of the rains, 
8. T. fruticosa. R. 
Sbrubby. Leaves lanceolar, glossy, and glaucous under- 
neath. Racemes axillary, and lateral. Involucre four- 
leaved, five-flowered ; corodlets enneandrous, with a six-cleft 
calyx. Berries oblate. 
Oaoa, the vernancular name in Silhet, where it is found. It 
is an upright ramous shrub, of about six feet in height, grow- 
ing in the forests, where it flowers in June and July, and the 
berries ripen the ensuing cool season. : 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolar, firm, and glossy, 
glaucous underneath ; from six to twelve inches long, by from 
two to three broad. Mate. Racemes axillary, and : solitary, 
or more numerous from the former a below 
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