Moacurra. pentandria digynia. 69 



Hermaphrodite. 



Calyx or corol four, five, or six-leaved ; leaflets spread- 

 inc?, small, oval, caducous. Filaments seven, eight, or 

 nine, exceedingly short. Anthers linear, erect, two-lobed. 

 Germ superior, obovate, emarginate, compressed. Styles 

 two, short, incurved, permanent. Stigmas acute, woolly, 

 Capsule pedicclled, orbicular, leafy, compressed, eniargi- 

 nate, one-celled, one-valved, not opening. Seed none. 



Malr flowers mixed with the hermaphrodite. Calyx 

 and Stamen as above. Pistil, no rudiment of one. 



Observation. The first part of the flowers that appears, 

 is the anthers ; they are then reddish ; next the calyx 

 increases, and becomes visible to the naked eye, but is 

 at all times small, and unless looked for, is seldom ob- 

 served. 



The wood of this tree is reckoned of a good quality 

 by the natives, and is employed for a variety of uses. 



MOACURRA. R. 



Polygamous. Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-petalled. 

 Nectary a scale within the base of each petal. Germ su- 

 perior, two-celled, cells two-seeded, attachment superior. 

 Capsule two-lobed, two-celled, two-valved. Seed solita- 

 ry, arilled. Embryo inverse^ with perisperm. 



M. gelonioides. R. 



Moakurra, is the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is 

 indigenous ; it grows to the size of a small tree. Flowering 

 time April and May ; the seeds ripen in December. Bran' 

 ches numerous, ascending. Bark of the old woody parts 

 rather rough with little whitish dots ; that of the young 

 shoots villous, and yellowish. Leaves alternate, short- 

 petioled, broad-lanceolar, entire, long, taper-pointed, of a 

 thin texture, and smooth ; three or four inches long by 

 one and a quarter broad. Stipules subulate, villous. 



