836 DIOECIA POLYANDRIA, Chaulmoogra. 
C. odorata, R. 
Chaulmoogra and Petarkura, are the names of this tree, 
and the drug, hereafter mentioned, which it furnishes. It is 
indigenous in the Silhet district, and grows to a large size, 
equalling the largest Mango trees, and when full grown 
may be compared to the great Maple, or Sycamore, Acer 
Pseudo-platanus, It blossoms in April and May, and the 
seed ripens about the close of the year; when the fruit is ga- 
thered, the seed is carefully taken out, dried, and sold to 
the native dealers in drugs at about five Rupees the maund 
of eighty-four pounds. 
Trunk and large branches covered with tolerably 
smooth, ash-coloured bark; the young shoots more or less 
declinate, round, smooth and green, Wood of a light brown 
colour, close-grained, and seemingly fit for a variety of pur- 
poses. Leaves short-petioled, alternate, bifarious, drooping, 
lanceolate, entire, acuminate, smooth, from six to ten inches 
Jong, and from one and a halfto two and ahalf broad. Stipules 
none. Peduncles from the sides of the ligneous branchlets of 
from one to several years’ growth, generally several together, 
from one to two inches long, one-flowered, Bractes minute 
round the base of the peduncles, Mae FLOweERs an 
inch and a half in diameter, when expanded of a pale yel- 
low, and powerfully fragrant. Calyx one-leaved, bowl- 
shaped ; border from four to five-lobed. Petals five, sessile, 
oblong, inserted imto the receptacle, round the filaments. 
Nectary, five ciliate, oblong scales, or smaller petals of a 
deeper yellow colour over the lower half of the proper petal, 
and attached to them. Filaments about a hundred, woody, 
inserted into the disk of the receptacle, Anthers Jinear, 
erect, about the length of the filaments, two together, rather 
shorter than the petals. Germ none, FEMALE on a distinct 
tree, Peduncles in bundles from tuberosities over the trunk, 
and larger branches, one-flowered as in the male. Flowers 
larger than the male ones, and fragrant. Stamina none, but 
round: the base of the germ are inserted about ten pinnatifid, 
