AUophyllus. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 263 



axills, round, downy, each supporting a single umbellet. 

 Flowers sessile, small, white. Calyx ; involucre from 

 six to eight-leaved, from seven to nine-flowered ; leaflets 

 chaffy, lanceolate, downy, permanent. Perianth inferior, 

 one-leaved, tubular, from six to eight-striated, from six 

 to eight-toothed, downy, permanent. Corol one-petalled ; 

 tube short ; border from six to eight-cleft ; divisions linear, 

 spreading. Filaments seven or eight, shorter than the 

 corol, inserted just below its divisions. Anthers oblong. 

 Germ superior, round. Style the length of the stamens, 

 Stigmahx^A. Pericarp none, the remaining withered 

 calyx serving for one. Seed one, globular, smooth, the 

 size of a pea. 



I know of no use to which any part of this shrub is 

 put, except that of fuel. 



ALLOPUYLLUS. Schreh. gen. w. 643. 



Calyx of two unequal pairs of suborbicular leaflets. 

 Corol four-petalled, regular. Stamina regular. Germ 

 two-Iobed. Stigma bifid. Berry superior, two-lobed, with 

 one seed in each. 



A. lanatus. Lourier. Cochin Ch. 286. 



Leaves ternate ; leaflets broad-lanceolate, serrate. Ra- 

 cemes axillary, simple. Petals equally disposed, and wool- 

 ly on the whole of the inside. 



A native of Pulo Pinang, Silhet, &c. It flowers in 

 May. Arboreous ; young branchlets round, and smooth. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, ternate. Leaflets subsessile, 

 lanceolate, remotely and minutely serrate, smooth on both 

 sides ; from four to six inches long. Petioles slightly 

 channelled, smooth, about half the length of the leaflets. 

 Racemes axillary, in pairs, or solitary, twice the length 

 of the petioles, simple. Flowers numerous, very small, 

 collected in little, one-bracted bundles. Calyx four-lea v- 



