310 ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LaitrUS. 



Branchlets crowded, or subverticillated. smooth, cloud- 

 ed. Leaves nhemaie, petioled, lanceolar, taperiuo equally 

 at each end, acuminate, one-nerved, entire, shining ; from 

 four to six inches long, and from one to one and a half 

 broad. Panicles axillary, and round the base of the 

 young shoots, from the axils of the scales which formed 

 the bud of the shoot, and also from the axils of the leaves 

 of the shoots, longpeduncled, small, smooth. Bractes, the 

 inferior ones like the leaves, but small, those of the sub- 

 divisioDS linear. Flowers numerous, small, pale yellow. 

 Calyx six-parted. Segments oval, smooth. Stamina 

 as in the genus. Xectarial glands broad, cordate-sagit- 

 tate, their pedicles hairy on the inside. Germ ovate, 

 one-celled, containing one ovula attached to the top of 

 the cell. Style cylindric. Stigma three-lobed. Berries 

 oblong, succulent, smooth, black, one-celled, &c. as in 

 the genus, 



14. L. villosa. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolar, one- 

 nerved. Panicles axillary and round the base of the 

 young downy shoots, villous. Berries spherical. 



A large tree, a native of the forests of Chittagong, 

 where it blossoms in January. 



Trunk in full grown trees in their native soil, from four to 

 five feet in circumference and covered with scabrous, dark 

 brown bark ; young tender shoots tomeutose, but becom- 

 ing smooth by the second year. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 lanceolar, entire, one-nerved, obtuse-pointed, when they 

 first begin to expand soft and very downy, like the twigs 

 that bear them, but soon becoming hard and somewhat 

 slossy ; from four to six inches long, and from one and a 

 half to two broad. Panicles axillary, and round the base 

 of the young shoots, copious, the length of the leaves, very 

 ramous, and very downy. Bractes small, downy. Calyx, 

 stamina and germ as in the genus, permanent. Xectariiil 



