Ckrysophyllum. pentandria monogynta. 599 



Cordia retnsa. Vahl. symb. ii. p. 42. 



Teling. Bapana-booree. 



A middling-sized, ramous shrub or small tree, very com- 

 mon on barren lands and in forests. Flowering- time the 

 wet season. 



Leaves on the young- shoots alternate, on the former branch- 

 Kts fascicled, sessile, reflexed, wedge- formed, very scabrous, 

 very hard above, shining-, from half an inch to an inch long-, 

 and a quarter or half an inch broad. Peduncles from amongst 

 the leaves on the woody branchlets, from two to six-flower- 

 ed. Pedicels very short. Flowers small, white. Calyx 

 five-parted ; divisions lanceolate, as long as the corol. Corol 

 campanulate. Border five or six-cleft. Stamens five or six, 

 shorter than the corol. Style two-cleft. Stigmas simple. 

 Berry the size of a pea, succulent, red. Nut five or six-celled. 



7. E. iniernodis. Willd. i. 1077. 



Arboreous. Leaves oblong, entire, smooth. Panicles 

 terminal and lateral. 



Found indigenous at the Mauritius by Colonel Hard- 

 witke. 



CHRYSOPHYLLUM. Schreb. gen. N. 355. 

 Calyx five-leaved. Corol campanulate, five-parted, (ten, 

 Linn.) Germ five celled ; cells one-seeded ; attachment inte- 

 rior. Berry superior, five-seeded, (ten, Linn, one or ten, 

 Gaert.) Embryo erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 



I. C. acuminatum. R. 



Leaves lanceolate, smooth. Flowers axillary. Fruit glo- 

 bose, five-seeded. 



Pitakara^ the vernacular name about Silhet, where the 

 tree is indigenous, and blossoms in April. The fruit ripens 

 in October, and is greedily eaten by the natives ; though to 

 me the taste is by no means agreeable j the pulp being al 



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