. k }90 TF.TRANDRIA MONOCYNI A. Cdllicarpa. 



Panicles terminal, and from the exterior axills. Flowers 

 minute, very numerous, greenish-yellow. Bract es minute. 

 Calyx inferior, four-toothed, permanent. Corol one-petalled. 

 Tube short, border four-cleft ; segments oblong, re volute. 

 Filaments four, inserted into the tube of the corol under its fis- 

 sures, and rather shorter than the border. Anthers oval. Germ 

 globular, style none. 5W<7ma*scabrous. Berry very minute, 

 much smaller than a grain of black pepper, smooth, red, 

 juicy. Seed one. 



Obs. The berries have a strong aromatic smell, and taste 

 much like garden cresses. The bark of the root is remarka- 

 bly acrid, bruised and applied to the skin, soon raises blis- 

 ters, for which purpose the natives often use it. As a stimu- 

 lant it promises to be a medicine possessed of very consider- 

 able powers. 



GALLIC ART A. Schreh. gen. N. 175. 



Calyx four- toothed. Corol one-petalled, tubular, four- 

 parted. Germ four-celled, cells one-seeded ; ovula attach- 

 ed to the middle of the axis. Berry four-seeded. Embryo 

 erect, and furnished with a pensperm. 



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1 . C. arborea. R. • • 



Arboreous. Leaves long-petioled, oblong, ventricose, ta- 

 pering much toward both ends, entire, hairy underneath. 

 Panicles .axillary, sub-globular, throughout diehotomous. 



A stout tall tree ; a native of Chittao-ong. Flowers at vari- 

 ous times through the year. 



Trunk nearly erect, and in trees nine years old, thirty-three 

 inches in circumference four feet above the surface of the soil. 

 Branches spreading. Brachlets obtusely four cornered, and 

 mealy. Leave* opposite, long-petioled, oblong, rentricose, 

 tapering equally at each end, entire, smooth above, hairy 

 underneath, while young and unexpanded very mealy on both 

 sides; length from six to twelve inches, petiole included. 



