446 TETRANDRIA DIGYNIA. Cuseiild. 



downy, throe inches long-. Panicles terminal, umbel-like; di- 

 visions two-forked. Flowers very small, yellow. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers solitary, sessile in the divi- 

 sions of the panicle. Calyx superior, four-leaved; leaflets 

 unequal ; exterior pair small, oval, braetifonn, caducous; in- 

 terior pair large, wedge-shaped, three-toothed, permanent, in- 

 creasing in size with the pericarp into two long, membranace- 

 ous wings, Corol none. Nectary consiBting of four clavato, 

 yellow glands. Filaments four, longer than the calyx, insert- 

 ed alternately with the nectarial glands into a perforated re- 

 ceptacle. Anthers quadrangular, opening on each side with 

 an oval lid. Germ inferior, ovate. Style none. Stigma small, 

 immersed in the perforation of the receptacle of the filament 

 and nectarial glands. Capsn/e globular, wrinkled, one-celled, 

 one-valved, not opening spontaneously, size of a cherry, end- 

 ing in two long-, obtuse, lanceolate, membranaceous wings. 

 Seed one. 



Obs. The wood of this tree which is white and very light, 

 is employed to make Catamarans (floats), when to be had, 

 in preference to any other. 



TETRANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



CU SCUTA. Schreb. gen. N.22J. 

 Calyx four or five-leaved or parted. Corol one-petalled. 

 Germ two-celled, one or two-seeded, attachment inferior. 

 Capsules superior, two-celled, circumcised. Embryo spiral, 

 rolled round the perisperm, Mith an inferior radicle. 



1. C. reflexa. Roxb. Corom. pi. ii. N. 104. 

 Parasitical ; flowers racemed, pentandrous. Scales of the 

 nectary bearded. Capsules four-seeded. 

 Beny. Hwldf-algwsi-lMta. 

 Te/iny. Sitarna-poorgonooloo. 

 This plant is parasitical, appearing- on any bush in the cold 



