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smooth and slender. Panicles lateral, scattered round 

 the base of the young shoots, below their tender fo- 

 liage, solitary, long-peduncled, expanding, small, com- 

 posed of a few, nearly diverging branchlets. Flowers 

 numerous, pedicelled, small, pale yellow. Bractes few, mi- 

 nute, caducous. Calyx with border divided into six al- 

 ternately rather smaller, oblong, obtuse, expanding seg- 

 ments, which are somewhat hairy on the inside. Nec- 

 tarial glands three, with sagittate yellow heads, alter- 

 nate, with the inner three stamina, and three pair on 

 their filaments, immediately below the anthers. Fila- 

 ments nine ; six in the exterior series, inserted on the 

 base of the divisions of the calyx, and three on the in- 

 ner inserted with the sagittate nectarial glands, round the 

 mouth of its tube. Anthers oval, with four poliniferous, 

 lidded pits, on the inside of the exterior series, and four 

 on the inside of the iimer. Germ superior, ovate, one- 

 celled, with one seed attached to the top of the cell. Style 

 short. Stigma three-toothed. Berry globular, the size of a 

 small black currant, smooth, when ripe succulent, and of 

 a dark purple colour, the pulp smells exactly like the 

 fresh skin of a green orange, one-celled. Seed solitary, 

 round. Integuments two ; the exterior one rather hard, 

 and dark brown; the interior one membranaceous, and 

 adhering to the cotyledons. Perisperm none. Embryo in- 

 verse. Cotyledons semispherical. Plumula two, lobate. 

 Radicle ovate, superior. 



13. L. lanceolaria, R. 



Arboreous, every part glossy. Leaves alternate, lan- 

 ceolar, acuminate, one-nerved. Panicles axillary, and 

 round the base of the young shoots. Berries oblong. 



SMudh^ool, the vernacular name in Silhet where it is 

 indigenous. It grows to be a middling sized tree, the wood 

 of which the natives convert into various useful purposes. 



Flowering time April ; the fruit ripens ia the rains. 



