264 ocTANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Omitropke. 



ed; /ea/efs roundish, the two exterior longer. Petals four, 

 wedge-shaped, the whole of the inside very woolly, equal- 

 ly disposed round the stamina and pistil. Filaments 

 eight, nearly the length of the petals. Anthers oval. Germ 

 two-lobed. Style single. Stigma two-parted. Pericarp 

 not seen. 



ORNITROPHE. Juss. 



Calyx of two unequal pairs of leaflets. Corol four- 

 petalled, unilateral. Germ superior, two-lobed, two-cell- 

 ed ; cells one-seeded ; attachment subinferior. Berries 

 two (though it frequently happens that one is abortive) 

 one-seeded. Embryo folded, with inferior radicle and no 

 perisperra. 



3.0. aporetica. R. 



Polygamous, shrubby. Leaves ternate ; leaflets ses- 

 sile, broad-lanceolar, acuminate, acutely serrate. Race- 

 mes simple. Nectary four-leaved. 



Aporetica ternata. Forst. gen. N. 66. 



Beng. Ghee-Kz^shee. 



A shrubby species, about four or five feet in height ; a 

 native of the Silhet district where it blossoms in June. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, ternate. Leaflets sessile, 

 broad-lanceolar, remotely but acutely serrate, cuspidate, 

 smooth on both sides, from four to six inches long, 

 and from two to three broad. Stipules none . Racemes 

 axillary, solitary, simple, erect, shorter than the leaves, 

 villous. Flowers numerous, small, pale yellow, collected 

 in little bundles, and embraced by some small, linear, 

 villous bractes, many of them male. Calyx of two, op- 

 posite, rather unequal pairs of round concave leaflets. 

 Petals four, unilateral, obovate, cuneate, emarginate, 

 very woolly on the inside above the middle. Nectary 

 within the base of each petal, a small, oblong, smooth. 



