238 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. MimUSOpS. 



pointed at the base, the lobes uniting round the radicle; 

 above the radicle they are often entirely divided by the 

 large cotyledons, which extend to, or rather through its 

 margins. Embryo erect. Cotyledons large, oval. PlU' 

 mula minute. Radicle inferior, linear-oblong. 



2. M. Kanki. Willd. 2. 326. 



Leaves scattered, petioled, about the ends of the 

 branchlets, obovate-oblong, obtuse, hoary underneath. 

 Fruit oval, drooping. 



Flowers hexandrous. 



Metrosideros macassarensis. Rumph. Amb. 3. t. 8. 



Manil-kara. Rlieed. Mai. 4. t. 25. 



Malay. JJooa-sow. 



Achras dissecta. Linn. Siipp- 210. Forsf. pi. escul. N. 

 13. 



A native of the Malay Islands, Malabar, &c. It flowers 

 during the hot season ; the fruit is edible, and large. 



3. M. hexandra. W'illd. 2. 326. R. Corom.pl. I. N. 15. 



Leaves alternate, long-petioled, obovate, emarginate, 

 smooth. Flowers hexandrous. 



Tam.ul. Pallas. 



Teling. Palla. 



This tree is a native of the mountainous parts of the Cir- 

 cars ; it is never cultivated, nor have I seen it near culti- 

 vated places. It flowers during the hot, and beginning of 

 the wet season. 



Trunk erect, frequently when old it has large rotten 

 excavations. Bark ash-coloured. Branches numerous, 

 rigid, spreading, extremities nearly erect, forming a large 

 shady head. Leaves alternate, petioled, broad, wedge- 

 formed, or obcordate, deeply emarginate, very hard, both 

 sides of a deep shining green; from three to five inches 

 long, and one and a half, or two broad. Petioles round, 

 one, or one and a half inch long. Peduncles axillary, 



