250 ocTANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Amyris. 



nearly round, size of a large pea, pale greenish somewhat 

 pellucid white. 



Note. This description is taken from a small plant of 

 two years' growth when it first blossomed, but I find they 

 grow to be large, elegant, very fragrant shrubs. 



8. A. suffruticosa. R. 



SufFruticose ; leaflets about eleven or thirteen, opposite, 

 or alternate, short-petioled, ovate. Panicles axillary. 

 Berry linear, oblong. 



A native of Chittagong, and from thence sent by Dr. 

 Buchanan to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it 

 blossoms in the months of February and March. Seed 

 ripe in April and May. 



•Sfem simple, about two feet high. Bark of the lower 

 woody part ash-coloured, of the young shoots green 

 and villous. Leaves alternate, pinnate, expanding from 

 six to sixteen inches in length. Leaflets generally from 

 eleven to fifteen, opposite, and alternate, short-petioUeted, 

 the lower pairs small, cordate-ovate, the superior oblong; 

 all are entire, and downy on both sides. Petioles, and 

 petiolets round and downy. Pawic/es.axillary, diverging, 

 scarcely half the length of the leaves, villous. Flowers 

 numerous, small, greenish white. 



Calyx small, with four acute divisions. Petals four, 

 expanding, concave. Nectary a small fleshy ring round 

 the base of the germ. Filaments alternately a little short- 

 er, enlarged at the base. Anthers large, two-lobed. 

 Germ globular. Style the length of the stamens. Stigma 

 small, four-lobed. £erms lanceolate, drooping, orange- 

 coloured, succulent, marked with numerous, large, pellu- 

 cid glands, nearly an inch long, and about a quarter of an 

 inch in diameter. Seed solitary, shaped like the berry, 

 green. 



9. A. sumatrana. R. 



Arboreous, tender parts villous. Leaflets from eight to 



