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cutta under the Malay name KooUt manees. After 

 seven years the young trees blossomed in February, and 

 ripened their seeds in May. 



Trunk straight, in our young trees the bark is yet quite 

 smooth, and of a greenish ash-colour. Branches, and 

 branchlets spreading. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 

 broad-lanceolar, distinctly triple-nerved to near the 

 apex, permanent, of a firm texture, polished, and very 

 smooth on both sides, but paler coloured underneath ; 

 five or six inches long, and from one and a half to two 

 broad ; when young, coloured ; when bruised they emit a 

 pleasant spicy odour. Petioles short, and channelled. 

 Panicles below the tender leaves of the young shoots, and 

 also solitary in their axils, and shorter than them, com- 

 posed of opposite, and alternate, three-flowered, diverging 

 peduncles. Flowers small, pale yellow. Segments of 

 the calyx, (corol. Linn.) oval and hairy on the inside. 

 Nectarial glands ; the inner three cordate-sagittate, on 

 short pedicells. Those attached to the inner three fila- 

 ments, are also supported on short pedicells, which 

 issue from their filaments a little above their base. This 

 circumstance alone, if constant, distinguishes it from all 

 the other species of this genus which I have yet met 

 with, for in all the rest they are sessile. 



Germ conical, one-celled, with one seed, attached to 

 the top of the ceil. Stigma three-lobed. Berry obovate, the 

 size of a field-bean, polished, and when ripe, of a deep 

 dark green bordering on grey, one-celled. Seed solitary, 

 conform to the berry. Integuments two, both thin, and of a 

 dark, dull brown colour. Perisperm none. Embryo con- 

 form to the seed, inverse, pale green. Plumula conic, 

 three-lobed. Radicle roundish, superior. 



7. L. recurvata. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves subopposite, ovate, long-pointed, 

 with the two lateral nerves evanescent towards the 



