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tAST INDIA BtTTETl TREE. 



bassia latifolia, (see Coromandel Plants, Volume I, No. !9; 

 also Asiatic Researches, Volume I, page 300.) so much as 

 scarce to be distinguished from it, except by the corol and 

 stamina. 

 T>ifer«nc€ in Here (in bassia butyracea) the corol is of a thin texture, 

 the corols, ^j^ a tu |j e neaj .iy cylindric, and border of eight, large, 

 spreading, oblong segments. There (in bassia latifolia) it 

 is thick and fleshy, with a gibbous, indeed almost globular 

 tube; and border of generally more than eight, small, 

 cordate, rather incurved segments, 

 andstamioa. Here, the stamina, from thirty to forty in number, hare 

 long filaments inserted on the mouth of the tube of the 

 corol. There they are fewer in number ; have very short 

 filaments, and are arranged in two, or three series, com- 

 pletely within the tube, to which they are affixed. 

 Other sped ei. It may not be improper to notice here some other species 

 of the same genus. The following Botanical description of 

 bassia longifolia, Linn. Mant. page 563, I have been 

 favoured with by Doctor Klein, of Tranquebar, and the 

 account of its economical uses by the Reverend Doctor John 

 or' the same place. 



Description by Doctor Klein, 

 Bassia Jongi- Calyx, Perianth ; monophyllum, 4-partitum ; laciniis 



folia described, ovatis, acutis, coriaceis, extus tomento ferruginco obductis, 

 persistentibus. 



Corolla monophylla, campanulata; tubo cylindraceo, 

 inflato, carnoso, limbo 8-partito; laciniis lanceolatis, 

 erectis. 



Stamina, filamenta 16, brevissima, in, duos ordines divisa, 

 quorum octo ad incisuras laciniarum, octo in tubo corollat 

 inserta. Anthers lineares, sebaceae, acuta;, extus piiosa*, 

 limbo breyiores, 



Pistil: Germen superum, ovatum. Stylus setaccus, co. 

 roll a duplo Iongjor. Stigma simplex. 



Pericarp : drupa pblonga, J -3 sperma, carnosa, lactes- 

 cens. Seminibus subtrigonis oblongis. 



Arbor magna; ramis sparsis, erectis, horizontalibusquc. 

 « Folia sparsa, petiolata, Ianceolata, acuta, integerrima, 



glabra, venosa. 



Florcs longe-pedunculafi, axillares, solitarii, etaggregati. 



1st. The 



