398 DECANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Sivietenia. 



none. ^w/Aers sessile, round the inside of the mouth 

 of the nectary. Gt^r/n ovate, five- celled, with two seeds 

 in each, attached from their apex to (he aril. Style 

 the length of the nectary. Stigma large, with a tive-poiat- 

 ed apex. Drupe ovate, the size of a large olive, smooth, 

 of a yellowish green wiihin, when ripe, one- celled. Nut 

 oblong, a perforation at each end, which passes through 

 the centre ; apex deep'y five-toothed, thiclc and hard, five- 

 celled, five-valved, for by age and exposure they divide 

 spontaneously- Seed solitary, lanceolar. Integuments 

 two ; the cjcf^rior one hiuhly polished, black; the inner 

 one membranaceous. Perisperni none. Emhrijo inverse. 

 Cotyledons lanceolar. Plum?ila two-lobed. Radicle short, 

 superior. 



SIVIETENIA. Schreh. gen. n. 723. 



Calyx five-toothed. Corol five-petalled. Nectary sub- 

 cylindric, bearing the anthers in its mouth. Germ supe- 

 rior, from three to five-celled ; cells many-seeded ; attach- 

 ment interior. Cuj sule from three to five-celled, ftoni 

 three to five-valved. Seeds imbricated, and winged. Ejii- 

 bryo inverse, no perisperm. 



1. S. febrifuga. Willd. 2. 557. R Corom. pi. 18. t. 17. 



Leaflets from three to four pair, opposite, oval, and ob- 

 long, obtuse. Panicle terminal, difi'use. Capsules five- 

 celled, opening from the apex. 



Teling. Soymida. 



Beng. Rohina. 



Tarn. Wond-marum. 



A native of the mountains of India. It flowers during 

 the hot season. The bark is a powerful febrifuge, and an 

 excellent substitute for Peruvian bark, which was one of 

 Sir William .Tones's desiderata; see Asiaf. Res. vol. :iLi, 

 180. 



