156 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. DracCBUa. 



Style length of the corol. Stigma three-lobed. Berry 

 from one to three-lobed, pulpy, deep orange colour, 

 each lobe the size of a marrow-fat pea, containing 

 one, large, round, horny seed. 



?. D. ferrea. Willd. 2- p. 157. 



Perennial, caulescent, erect. Leaves petioled, lanceo- 

 late, cuspidate, ferruginous- Petioles stem-clasping, and 

 channelled. Panicle terminal. 



Terminalis rubra. Rumph. Amb. 4. p. 80. t, 34./. 2. 



A native of China. In Bengal it blossoms from De- 

 cember until March, but never produces seed. 



Stem erect, often as thick as a man's wrist, with few, 

 erect, perennial, round branches marked with the cica- 

 trices of the fallen leaves, height of the plants in Bengal, 

 when eight or ten years old, from six to ten feet. Leaves 

 sub-bifarious, petioled, lanceolate, cuspidate, entire, 

 smooth on both sides ; while young a lively pink, chang- 

 ing to a deep ferruginous colour, particularly on the up- 

 per surface ; from one to two feet long. Petioles stem- 

 clasping, deeply channelled, from three to six inches 

 long. Panicle terminal, composed of several, generally 

 simple, diverging racemes. Bractes three-fold, triangu- 

 lar, acute. Flowers numerous, short-pedicelled, diverg- 

 ing, pale purple. Calyx none. Coi'ol one-petalled. Tube 

 short, and somewhat gibbous. Border of six, oblong, 

 spreading segments ; the exterior three deeper coloured. 

 Filaments rather shorter than the segments of the corol, 

 and inserted on their base, at the mouth of the tube. 

 Germ three celled, in each many ovula in two vertical 

 rows, attached to the axis. Style as long as the sta- 

 mens. Stigma three-cleft. 



Note. In Bengal this has not ripened its fruit. 



3. D. terminalis. Willd. 2. 157. 



Perennial, caulescent, erect. Leaves lanceolate. 



Terminalis alba. Rumph. Amb, 4. p. 80. t. 34./. ;* . 



