242 ocTANDRiA iVfONOGYMA. Guarea. 



to Sandoricum Indiciim. I have not observed that any part 

 of it possesses any peculiar odour, which, with the double 

 nectary is a sufficient reason to induce me to think it is 

 not the American species, Guarea trichilioides. 



2. G. paniculata. R. 



Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate ; leaflets from six to 

 twelve pair, alternate and opposite, ovate-lanceolate. 

 Panicles axillary. 



KiAhkoura is the vernacular name in Silhet, where it 

 growls to be a pretty large tree- Flowering time May and 

 June ; the seed ripens the following April. 



Young shoots slightly villous. Leaves alternate, abrupt- 

 ly pinnate, from eighteen to thirty inches long. Leaflets 

 from six to fourteen pair, short-petiolate, the inferior pairs 

 often alternate, those above opposite, somewhat une- 

 qually ovate, lanceolate, entire, taper-pointed, nearly 

 smooth ; from five to ten inches long, and two or four 

 broad. Common petioles round and villous. Stipules none. 

 Panicles axillary, solitary, nearly as long as the leaves, 

 spreading. Ramifications villous. Flowers very numerous, 

 pedicelled, pretty large, of a pale yellow, expanding in the 

 evening, and dropping the next morning. Bractes fili- 

 form, villous. Calyx cup-shaped, obscurely four-toothed, 

 a little villous. Petals four, spatulate, obtuse, recurved. 

 Nectary cylindric, the length of the corol,and hairy on both 

 sides ; the mouth eight-toothed ; segmefitshidentsitc. Fila- 

 ments scarcely any. Anthers oblong, attached round the 

 inside of the mouth of the nectary. Germ superior, ovate 

 four-celled, with one, rarely two ovula in each, attached 

 to the top of the axis. Style the length of the nectary, 

 hairy. Stigma globular. Capsule globular, the size of a 

 crab apple, three or four-lobcd, with a furrow between, 

 smooth, of a dark orange colour, from three to four-celled, 

 from three to four-vah ed ; valves thick, and spongy, with 

 the partitions rising down the middle. Seed solitary. 



