636 pentandria monogynia. Camunium. 



falling off with the seeds. Seeds numerous, imbricated, both 

 the ends and the exterior side membrane-winged, affixed to 

 the upper end of the sharp ridges of the receptacle, &c. ex- 

 actly as in Swietemafebrifuga, and Mahogani. See Gcerl, 

 carp. ii. 86. Perisperm in very small quantity, and more 

 Jike a fleshy interior integument. Embryo inverse. Cotyle- 

 dons oval, three-nerved. Radicle obliquely superior. 



The wood of this tree is much like mahogany, but lighter, 

 consequently not so close in the grain. It is much used for 

 furniture and various other purposes. The bark is a power- 

 ful astringent, and though not bitter is a tolerably good 

 substitute for Peruvian Bark in the cure of remitting and 

 intermitting fevers ; particularly when joined with a small 

 portion of the powdered seed of Cesalpinia bonduccella, 

 (KMtkwlegei of the Bengalees), which is a most powerful 

 bitter. 



CAMUNIUM. Humph. 

 Calyx five-toothed. Petals five. JYectary globular, apex 

 perforated, inside staminiferous. Germ superior, one-cell- 

 ed, from one to two-seeded ; attachment of the ovula superior. 



1. C. chinense. Rumph. Amb. v. 28. t. IS. J". 1. 



An elegant shrub, most probably a native of China, at 

 least it has been brought to the Botanic garden at Calcutta 

 from Canton, under the name Sam-yeip-lan, where it blos- 

 soms during the hot season, and the early part of the rains 

 in June and July, but has not yet shown any tendency to pro- 

 duce fruit. 



Stem in our young, small plant trifling, but many branches 

 and branchlets rising and spreading in every direction. 

 Bark of the old ligneous parts olive gray ; of the young 

 shoots green, with their very tender apices clothed with stel- 

 late ferruginous scales. Leaves alternate, petioled, ternate 

 and unequally pinnate. Leaflets rarely more than five, the 

 pairs opposite, and much smaller than the terminal one, all 



