832 DIOECIA POLYANDRIA. Flacourtia. 
3. G. fasciculatum. R. 
Leaves oblong, near the apex serrate. Flowers fascicled. 
Capsules tricoccous. Stamina numerous, 
Hind. Bun naringa, 
Teling. Soora gada. 
This is rather a small tree, a native of the Circar mountains 
and Bengal. It flowers in March and April. The buds are 
covered with a transparent, soft, resinous exudation, 
_ Leaves alternate, very short-petioled, oblong, entire, or 
serrate toward the apex, smooth, shining, firm, from four to 
six inches long, and about two broad. Stipules within the 
leaves, spathiform, as in the Gardenie. When they drop 
they leave a permanent circular mark. Umbellets leaf-op- 
posed, few-flowered. Flowers yellow, very fragrant. Brac- 
tes small, caducous, Maur. Calyx five-leaved; Jeaflets 
spreading, orbicular, concave. Corol none. Filaments nu- 
merous, as long as the calyx, inserted into a yellow, glandu- 
lar receptacle. Femaxe, Calyx'six-leaved ; leaflets obovate. 
Corol none. WNectary, a yellow, glandular, angular ring, 
surrounding the base of the germ. Germ superior, ovate, 
three-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the top of 
’ theaxis. Capsule nearly round, fleshy, yellow, smooth, three- 
celled, three-valved. Seeds solitary, attached by the inside 
of the apex of their soft fleshy aril, to the top of the axis, 
or receptacle, Perisperm white, and fleshy. Embryo in- 
verse, Cotyledons round-cordate. Radicle superior. 
__ DIOECIA POLYANDRIA. 
FLACOURTIA. Schreb. gen: N. 1546. 
Mane. Calyx five-parted. Femare. Calyx as in ‘the 
male. Corol none. Germ superior, five-celled, Cells two- 
seeded ; attachment interior, Berry few-seeded. Embryo 
Sctinhed with a ec. and emia tens radicle, — 
