COO PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. TeCtOlia. 



most insipid, and though tolerably firm, uncommonly clam- 

 my, adhering to the lips or knife, with great tenacity. 



A midd lino-sized tree, with numerous slender, smooth, 

 round branchlets. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolate, entire, acumi- 

 nate, polished on both sides, except while young, then cloth- 

 ed with ferruginous down; veins small, simple and parallel ; 

 from three to four inches long, and one and a quarter broad. 

 Peduncles axillary, several together, recurved, one-flowered. 

 Flowers minute, pale yellow. Calyx five-leaved, leaflets 

 oval. Corol one-petalled. Tube the length of the calyx, 

 border five-parted, segments oval. Filaments five, inserted 

 into the tube of the corol near the base. Anthers in the mouth 

 of the tube. Germ inferior, ovate, very hairy, five-celled, 

 with one ovulum in each, attached to the middle of the axis. 

 Style short. Stigma five-lobed. Berries spherical, size of 

 a small crab-apple, smooth, when ripe yellow. Pulp in con- 

 siderable quantity, five-celled. Seeds solitary, attached to 

 the axis by the greater part of the length of the thin inner 

 edge, smooth, polished, of a shining brown colour. Peris- 

 perm conform to the seed, yellowish. Embryo extended 

 through the whole perisperm, erect. Cotyledons obliquely 

 ovate, thin, three-nerved. Radicle curved, sub-cylindric, 

 inferior. 



TECTONA. Sckreb. gen. N. 356. 



Calyx five-toothed, becoming inflated over the growing 

 pericarp. Corol one-petalled. Germ four-celled ; cell one- 

 seeded ; attachment central. Drupe superior, dry, hid in the 

 calyx. Nut four-seeded. Seed solitary. Embryo erect, 

 without perisperm. 



1. T. grandis. Willd. sp. i. 1088. Roxb. Corom. 1. 2V. 6. 

 Tekka. Rheed. Mai. iv. p. 57. t. 27. 

 Jatus. Rumph. Amb. iii. p. 34. 1. 18. 



