Willughbeia. pentandria digynia. 57 



terior membranaceous. Perisperm conform with the seed. 

 Embryo straight. Cotyledons oval. Radicles cyliudric, 

 centripetal. 



WILLUGHBEIA. Schreb. pen. n. 417. 



Calyx five-toothed. Corol hypocrateriform. Stigma 

 capitate. Germ superior, one-celled ; ovula many, attach- 

 ed to t AO opposite pirietal receptacles. Berry one-cell- 

 ed. Seeds few, nidulent. Embryo without perisperm. 



W. ediilis. R. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves opposite, oblong, acumi- 

 nate. Flowers in small axillary lascicles. Berries very 

 large, spherical. 



L?/ti-am, is the vernacular name in Chittaq;ong, Silhet, 

 &c. where it grows to an immense size, running over the 

 largest trees. It is in flower and fruitnearly the whole year. 

 Bark of the trunk and large branches of large, old plants, 

 above half an inch thick, inwardly dark brown; surface 

 tubercled ; taste somewhat astringent. Leaves opposite, 

 short.petioled, oblong, acuminate, entire, polished, veins 

 simple, and parallel ; length from three to five inches, and 

 the breadth one or two. Peduncles axillary and terminal 

 solitary, short, each supporting a few middling sized, pale 

 pink coloured, short-pedicelled flowers, forming small fas- 

 cicles. jBrac^es solitary, at the base of each pedicel, ovate. 

 Calyx one-leaved, five-toothed. Segments ovate, subcili- 

 ate. Corol one-petalled, infundibuliform ; tube gibbous 

 near the middle where the stamina are lodged, a little 

 hairy on the inside ; border of five, sublanceolate, smooth, 

 expanding segments which are imbricated in the bud. Fi- 

 laments short, inserted into the tube of the corol, a little 

 above its base. Anthers subsagittate, but do not adhere to 

 each other, on each side a polliniferous groove. Germ su- 

 perior, ovate, smooth, one-celled] ovula many, attached to 

 two opposite parietal receptacles. Style short. Stigma 



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