848 DIOECIA MONADELPHIA, Adelia, 
A pretty large, tall, straight tree, a native of Chittagong, 
where it blossoms in January. The female tree not seen. 
ADELIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1558. 
Mate. Calyx from three to four-parted, or from three to 
four-leaved. Coro/ none. Filament ramous, branching out 
into many simple, or compound ramifications, FEMALE. 
Calyx five-parted. Corol none. Germ superior, three-cell- 
ed; cel/s one-seeded ; attachment superior. Styles three. 
Capsule tricoccous. Embryo inverse, with a scanty peri- 
sperm. 
1. A. castanicarpa, R. 
Arboreous. Leaves oblong, entire. Stipules falcate. 
Flowers axillary, crowded. Calyx four-leaved. 
Beng. Boolkokra, 
A large timber tree, a native of Silhet and Chittagong. 
The wood is said tobe very hard. Flowering time November 
and December, and again in May and June, The seed ri- 
pens in May, and a second crop in the cool season, 
Young shoots a little hairy, but the hairs soon disappear, 
leaving them smooth, Leaves alternate, bifarious, approxi- 
mate, short-petioled, from ovate-oblong to broad-lanceolate, 
rather acuminate, entire, of a firm and smooth texture, from 
four to five inches long, by from one to three broad, Stipules 
falcate, pretty large. MALE FLowers axillary, crowded, 
sessile. Calyx four-leaved; /eaflets in two opposite pairs, 
ovate, ciliate, Corol none, Nectary, a crenulate cup, round 
the base of the column from the middle downwards; all are 
smooth, Anthers oblong, incumbent. FEMALE FLOWERS 
axillary, several together, some sub-sessile, some short-pe- 
duncled, small, of a dull grayish yellow colour. Bractes, 
some roundish, hairy scales round the base of the peduncles, 
Calyx of two opposite pairs of oval leaflets. Corol none. 
Nectary saucer-shaped, embracing the base of the germ 
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