544 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Morblda. 



gated with red and white, it is employed for gun-stocks in 

 preference to all other kinds. 



3. 31. bracieata. R. 



Arboreous, straight. Leaves opposite to each other or to 

 a peduncle, oblong, polished. Anthers within the woolly 

 mouth of the tube. Stigma exsert. Heads bracted. 



Bancudus angustifolia. Rumph. Amb. iii. p. 157. t. 9$. has 

 the process of the calyx of my plant, but I cannot say they 

 agree in other respects. 



It is a native of the Ganjam district ; from thence 3Ir. Snod- 

 grass sent the seeds to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where 

 the tree thrives well, and is in blossom during the hot and 

 rainy seasons. 



Trunk straight. Branches opposite, decussate, smooth. 

 Leaves opposite to each other or to a peduncle, short-petiol- 

 ed, oblong, acute, smooth, polished, deep green on both sides, 

 margins entire, length from six to twelve inches. Stipules 

 large, with semi-circular apices. Peduncles solitary, and al- 

 ways opposite to a leaf, round, smooth, from one to two inches 

 long, supporting a single, small head, of small pure white 

 flowers. In tinctoria and exserta the peduncle is often in 

 the axill of a small leaf, « Inch stands opposed to the larg-e 

 one. Calyx; perianth proper, a tumid margin round the 

 crown of the germ, frequently a small portion thereof grows 

 to be a long linear-lanceolate, permanent leaflet. Coral 

 funnel-shaped ; mouth of the tube very woolly. Filaments 

 short. Anthers linear, lodged amongst the wool, but entire- 

 ly within the mouth of the tube. Stigma two-deft, and ele- 

 vated about the mouth of the tube. Berry aggregate, size 

 varying from that of a crab-apple, to that of a small nutmeg, 

 single berries several, obovate, size of a pea with a round eye 

 on the apex. Nut or seeds four, the shell or cover uniform- 

 ly convex on the outside, and on the inside concave, with an 

 elevated convexity near the top which covers a void cell, the 

 fertile cell occupies the whole length, and nearly the whole 



