Baeobotrys. pentandria monogynia. 559 



digenous. It grows to be a pretty large shrub, blossoms in 

 March and April, and the seeds ripen in October and Novem- 

 ber. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, en- 

 tire, smooth, from two to six inches long. Panicles terminal, 

 axillary, and lateral, numerous, small, crowded with small, 

 abortive, ferruginous, ramentaceous branchlets. Flowers 

 small, greenish-yellow. Bractes ferruginous, small, subulate. 

 Calyx five-parted, almost five-leaved. Corol; tube very 

 small. Border of five orbicular, veined segments. Filaments 

 five, short, inserted into the tube of the corol. Anthers two- 

 lobed, broad-ovate. The germ may be called superior, ovate, 

 smooth, one-celled ; ovula numerous, on a sub-cylindric re- 

 ceptacle, rising from the base of the cell. Style short. Stigma 

 two or three-lobed. Berries completely inferior, size of a 

 grain of black pepper, white, smooth, succulent, one-celled. 

 Cell formed by a white, pretty hard, but thin, nuciform inte- 

 gument. Seeds several, minute, angular, black, pitted, at- 

 tached to the free, central receptacle, as in the germ. Integu- 

 ments uncertain, on account of the diminutive size of the seed. 

 Perisperm soft, juicy, dark-coloured. Embryo sub-cylindric, 

 transverse. 



3. B. nemoralis. Willd. spec. i. 992. 



Shrubby. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, repand-dentate, 

 smooth. Racemes axillary, short, and crowded. 



Mz/lmoonya is the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is in- 

 digenous and grows to the size of a pretty large, very ramous, 

 upright shrub. It flowers in March, and the seeds ripen in 

 May. 



Branches and branchlets numerous, nearly erect, round 

 and pretty smooth. Bark of the old woody parts brown, of 

 the young shoots green. Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate- 

 oblong, margins repand, serrate-dentate, (for there is a mix- 

 ture of the whole,) in some acuminate, both sides smooth, tex- 

 ture firm, three or four inches long, by two broad. Racemes 



