646 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. JYeerija. 



ovate, hairy, somewhat two-lobed, two-celled, with one pen- 

 dulous ovulum in each attached to the upper end of the par- 

 tition. Style short. Stigma two-lobed ; lobes reflex, adnate. 

 Capsules pendulous, orbicular, two-lobed, considerably com- 

 pressed, villous, two-celled, t-.vo-valved, opening all round. 

 Partition opposed to the valves. The whole very exactly 

 resembling the capsule of Gelonenm cupanioides. Gcert. 

 carp. ii. 271. /. 139. Seed solitary, semi-oval ; the inner side 

 being straight, the exterior rounded, arilled. Integument 

 single, rather thin, smooth, chesnut colour. Aril deep orange, 

 covering the whole seed from the base except the apex. Pe- 

 risperm none. Embryo green. Cotyledons two, conform to 

 the seed, incumbent, their line of separation being nearly 

 through the middle of the seed, which makes them equal. 

 Radicle on the exterior or convex side of the seed, apex ra- 

 ther acute, and turned up into a small hollow in the upper- 

 most cotyledons, so that it points to the apex of the seed. 

 After it has lengthened a little by the progress of vegeta- 

 tion, the two-lobed plumula is very conspicuous. 



NEERIJA. R. 

 Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-petalled. Style simple. 

 Berry superior, one or two-seeded. 



1. N. dichotoma. R. 



Telinga. Neerija. 



A middle-sized tree, a native of the mountains of Coro- 

 mandel. Flowers about the beginning of the hot season. 



Trunk erect. Bark rust-coloured, scabrous. Branches 

 numerous, spreading in every direction. Branchlets oppo- 

 site, round and smooth. Leaves opposite and alternate, pe- 

 tiolate, oval and oblong, serrato-crenate, smooth ; about four 

 inches long, and two broad ; texture hard. Petioles round, 

 three-quarters of an inch long. Panicles axillary, globu- 

 lar, thin, throughout dichotomous, with the divisions stand- 



