8S PENTANDRiA DiGYNiA. HoUgama. 



2. H. racemosa, R. t 



Leaves alternate, linear-oblong. Flowers racemed. 



Am-jour the vernacular name in Silhet where it is 

 indigenous on the hills of that province, and grows to 

 be a large tree. It flowers in M arch, and the fruit ri- 

 pens in May, June and July. Branches and hranchlets 

 very numerous, the bark of the former ash-coloured and 

 rather rough ; of the latter, smooth, and void of pubes- 

 cence. Leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolar and linear, 

 oblong, entire, obtusely acuminate, of a hard texture, 

 glossy on the upper surface or rather glaucous underneath ; 

 from four to eight inches long, from one to three broad. 

 Petioles less than an inch in length, smooth, channel- 

 led. 



Male flowers I have found on a separate tree by them- 

 selves collected on little lateral, and terminal villous 

 racemes, small, much crowded, olive-coloured. Calyx five- 

 toothed. Petals live, ovate. Filaments five, alternate with 

 the petals, and with them inserted on the receptacle. An. 

 thers ovate. Germ none. Hermaphrodite racemes as in 

 the male but less crowded with flowers. Calyx superior, 

 five-parted, permanent. Corol as in the male. Filament 

 short. Anthers of tw o distinct lobes. Germ inferior, oval, 

 one-celled, containing a single ovula, attached to one 

 side of the cell a little above the middle. Style single, 

 very short. Stigma capitate. Berry, the size of a large 

 olive, obliquely, and transversely oval, smooth, when 

 ripe red, pulp in considerable quantity, the fibrous pores 

 contain a pale coloured acrid, thick juice as in Semecar^ 

 pus, one- celled, one-seeded. Seeds transversely oval. 

 Perisperm none. Embryo transverse. Cotyledons con- 

 form to the seed, equal. Plumula two-toothed, fringed. 

 Radicle short, truncate lateral, directly within the umbi- 

 licus. 



