630 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Hoveilia. 



Obs. This plant is generally dioicous. The smell of the 

 flowers is very offensive, not unlike that of Sterculiafcetida, 



HOVENIA. Schreb. gen. N. 375. 

 Calyx five-parted. Corol five- petal led. Germ superior, 

 three-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attachment inferior. Style 

 three-cleft. Capsule tricoccous. Embryo erect, with scan- 

 ty perisperm. 



1. H. dulcis. Thiinb.japon. 101. Willcl. spec. i. 1141. 



Sicku, vulgo Ken et Kenp6konas,Kaempf. amoen. p. 808. 

 t. 809. 



A tree, a native of Nepal ; from thence introduced by Dr. 

 Buchanan into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where when 

 eight years old, it began to blossom in April. 



Trunk in our young trees straight and high, from ten to 

 twelve feet to the branches ; and twenty inches in circumfer- 

 ences, four feet above the earth. Total height about thirty 

 feet. Bark smooth, dark-brown. Branches spreading much, 

 branchlets bifarious, round ; younrj shoots hairy. Leaves 

 alternate, short-petioled, cordate, acutely serrate, acuminate, 

 three nerved, smooth above, a little hairy underneath ; from 

 four to six inches long-, by from two to four broad. Stipules 

 lanceolate, hairy, caducous. Cymes axillary, rarely termi- 

 nal, dichotomous, villous; divisions clavate. Flowers nu- 

 merous, small, white. Calyx one-leaved, acetabuliforrn, in- 

 side hairy. Border five-parted ; divisions ovate, reflexed. 

 Petals five, inserted within the fissures of the calyx, broad 

 spatulate, sides incurved round the filaments. Filaments 

 five, longer than the petals, recurved. Anthers ovate. 

 Germ superior, ovate, three-celled, with one ovulum in each, 

 attached to the bottom of its cell. Style cylindric, apex 

 three-cleft. Stigmas simple. Capsules superior, round, size 

 of a pea, thin, smooth, and brown, three-celled. The ramifi- 

 cations of the cyme are now, when the seeds are ripe, much 



