ScJileichera. octandria monogynia. 275 



a fleshy, crenulated ring round the germ, in which the 

 stamens are inserted. Filaments from six to eight, half 

 the length of the petals. Anthers erect, oblong. Germ 

 two-lobed. 5'/?/^e rather shorter than the stamens. Stigma 

 two-parted. In some flowers, (and they are, I suspect, 

 always barren,) the germ is small, and the style only 

 a conical point between its lobes. Berries one or two- 

 celled, the size of a field bean, and juiceless. Seed soli- 

 tary. 



It was formerly observed, that I thought it necessary 

 tc keep the first described two species of 6'cyto^ia dis- 

 tinct from the genus Sapindus, on account of the regular 

 corol, or its entire absence ; the same reason prevails 

 here. To the former, Scytalia, I assign a regular corol 

 with the stamens equally disposed on all sides ; where- 

 as to the latter T give an irregular corol, with ascending 

 filaments. 



SCHLEICHERA. Willd. 



Polygamous. CaZ?/.T five-toothed. CoroZ five-petalled, 

 or none. Germ superior, three-celled, cells one-seeded ; 

 attachment inferior. Capsule berried, entire, or three- 

 valved. Seeds from one to three, arilled. Embryo naked, 

 without perisperra, curved, erect. 



1. S. pentapetala. R. 



Leaflets from three to four pair, subalternate, lanceolate. 

 Flowers five-petalled. Capsule one-seeded. 



A pretty large tree, a native of the forests of Silhet, 

 where it blossoms in March and April, and the fruit ri- 

 pens during the rains. The male tree is there called Koi- 

 poora and the hermaphrodite, or fertile tree Poora-Koi. 

 This sort is not eaten, the aril, the only edible part, being 

 very thin, and insipid. 



Young shoots smooth. Leaves alternate, abruptly pin- 



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