826 DIOECIA ICOSANDRIA, Rotilera. 
_ that when he commanded at Chicacole there were in bis gar- 
den two female trees that bore abundantly; there was one 
male tree standing between them; he had often heard that 
the female tree would not bear without the male, but did 
not entirely credit the report. To satisfy himself he cut 
down the male tree and there was no other near, he thinks 
not within a mile or two; the consequence was, that from 
that time neither of the female trees produced ripe fruit, ex- 
cept the few that he thinks might have been formed before 
he cut down the male tree. December 1793, some specimens 
of a male tree with fruit on them, were shown me by Sir 
William Jones, I have not seen the tree, and it is the only in- 
' stance that has come to my knowledge, where female or her- 
maphrodite flowers were found on the male Papaya tree. 
1609, ‘Since writing the last paragraph another instance of 
the male tree producing fruit occurred in the Botanic garden, 
1 am informed that the same is common at Malacca, 
DIOECIA ICOSANDRIA. 
ROTTLERA. R. 
Marz. Calyx from two to five-parted. Corol none, Fr- 
MALE. Calyx from four to five-cleft, Coro/none. Germ 
superior, from two to four-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attach- 
ment interior. Capsules from two to four-coccous. Embryo 
inverse and furnished with a perisperm. 
1, R, detracocea, R. 
Young shoots ferruginous, Leaves long-petioled, cordate, 
rarely lobate, acuminate, hoary underneath. Panicle ter- 
minal, Capsules hoary, papillose, tetracoccous, 
_ Marleya is the vernacular name in the Silhet district, where 
it grows to be a useful timber tree, of considerable size. 
It flowers in April and May; and the seeds ripen in August. 
Young shoots densely clothed with stellate pubescence, 
