296 ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LttUrUS, 



inches in circumference. The bark thereof scabrous, 

 and considerably cracked in various directions, that 

 of the younger parts smooth. The head remarkably ra- 

 mous, large, and dense, for the last three or four years 

 they have flowered freely during the months of January and 

 February ; and ripened abundance of berries. It is from 

 these the following description was taken. The drawing 

 and description, No. 1058,* was made from young trees, 

 which were reared by me at Samwlkota, from the seeds of 

 the trees growing in Tinnevellee, near Palamkotta, which 

 were procured from Ceylon in 1781 or 1782, and which 

 diflfer from this in the leaves being much narrower at the 

 base, in short, broad-lanceolar, and the three nectarial 

 glands clavate. The sort introduced into Bengal by Mr. 

 Hastings, between thirty and forty years ago is of this 

 narrow leaved, inferior kind. 



Descriptions ofKasse Koronde. 

 Leaves opposite, rarely sub-opposite, short-petioled, 

 ovate-oblong, entire, rather obtuse ; texture hard, surfa- 

 ces polished, the three nerves often uniting a little above 

 the base, and the lateral two vanishing beyond the middle 

 of the leaves ; from four to six inches long, and from one 

 and a half to three broad. Petioles about half an inch 

 long, smooth, and channelled. Paw?c/es terminal; the large 

 ramifications opposite, expanding,the extreme ones three- 

 flowered, all more or less four- sided, and smooth. Flow- 

 ers nnmerous, small, greenish-white, smell rather ofiensive. 

 Bractes minute, caducous. Cahjx six -cleft ; base entire, 

 embracing the germ ; border divided into six, oblong, 

 slightly villous segments, the three exterior rather broad- 

 er, all are permanent and from a cupula, or small cup in 

 which the berry sits, as in the common oak. Corol no o- 

 ther than the last described body. Filaments nine, the six 

 exterior inserted on the base of the segments of the calyx, 



* Sent to the Honourable the Court of Directors. 



