Schkichera. octandria monogynia. 277 



there any perisperm, but both the cotyledons are doubled, 

 and equally long. 



2. S. irijuga. Willd. 4. 1096. 



Leaflets three pair, lanceolate. Flowers apetalous. 



Koon. Gcert. sem. 2. p. 486. t. 180./. 11. 



Cing. Coughas. 



Tarn. Zolini-buriki. 



Teling. May, or Roatangha. 



A stout, handsome middling sized tree, a native of va- 

 rious parts of India. Flowers about February. The fruit 

 ripens in May. It is allied to Melicocca, and Scytalia, 

 probably not suflaciently removed from the former to au- 

 thorize its forming a new genus. The pulpy subacid aril, 

 is edible, and palatable. 



Leaves about the extremities of the branchlets, abrupt- 

 ly pinnate, from eight to sixteen inches long. Leaflets 

 from two to four pair, opposite, sessile, broad-lanceo- 

 late, or oblong, entire, pretty smooth on both sides ; the 

 lower pairs the smallest ; from three to eight inches long. 

 Petioles a little downy, from six to sixteen inches long. 

 Stipules wanting. Racemes axillary, or below the leaves, 

 round the base of the young shoots, solitary ; in the male 

 simple ; in the hermaphrodite often compound ; from two 

 to four inches long. 



Male. CaZ?/x cup-formed, five-toothed. C'oro/ none. 

 Filaments from six to ten, erect, many times longer than 

 the calyx. Anthers oval, erect. Pistil, merely the rudi- 

 ment of one. 



Hermaphrodite flowers on a separate tree. Calyx 

 as in the male. Coro? none. Nectary a fleshy, yellow ring 

 surrounding the insertions of the filaments. Stamens as 

 in the male. Germ superior, ovate, three-celled, with one 

 ovula in each, attached to the bottom of the cell. Style 

 short. Stigma three-cleft, recurved, slender, downy. 



