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as long as the leaves ; ramifications numerous, diverging. 

 Flowers numerous, small, yellow. Bractes a small ob- 

 scure scale, under each division of the panicle, and two 

 pressing the calyx laterally. Ca/ya; small, one-leaved, 

 three-toothed. The two bractes, while they remain, make 

 it appear five-parted. Petals three, oval, concave, press- 

 ed to the nectary. Nectary round, turbinate, with a con- 

 tracted triangular opening on the apex. Filaments none. 

 Anthers from six to eight, sessile, round the inside of the 

 nectary, apparently abortive. Germ none, but a clavate 

 gland in its place. 



Hermaphrodite tree. Peduncles axillary, solita- 

 ry from three to six-flowered. Flowers longer than the 

 male, in other respects the same. Calyx, corol, and nec- 

 tary as in the male. Anthers always six. Germ supe- 

 rior, three-sided, ovate, covered with minute, stellate 

 scales, three-celled, with two vertically placed ovula in 

 each, attached to the middle of the axis. Style none. 

 Stigma large, three-lobed ; lobes somewhat two-lobed. 

 Capsule nearly round, as large as a middling sized apple, 

 three-lobed, three-celled, three-valved. Cortex thick, 

 firm, and of a tough, fleshy texture. Seeds solitary, of a 

 roundish trigonal shape, three-fourths covered with a 

 fleshy bright orange-coloured aril. Integument under the 

 aril smooth, and of a chesnut colour. Perisperm none. 

 Embryo inverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed. Plu- 

 mula two-lobed. Radicle semilunar, superior. 



2. A. Rohituka. R. 



Polygamous Leaves unequally pinnate ; leaflets six- 

 paired, obliquely oblong, entire, smooth, opposite. In- 

 florescence axillary, the fertile flowers spiked, the abor- 

 tive ones panicled. 



Sans. Rohitwka. 



Beng. Tikta-raj. 



Hind. Harrin-hara, or khana. 



