602 icosANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Alangium. 



branchlets in all directions from diverging to erect. Bark 

 on all smooth. Leaves alternate, in the bud equitant, pe- 

 tioled, recurved, oblong, tapering equally at each end, ve- 

 ry finely gland-serrate, considerably acuminate, smooth, 

 from two to four inches long, and from one to two 

 broad, in Bengal deciduous about the close of the year. 

 Stipules from the base of the petioles, ensiform, gland- 

 ciliate. Flowers very numerous, rather small, and white, 

 short peduncled, regularly three from each bud, and 

 there are generally two of those buds in each of the old 

 axills, with a leaf-bearing one in the centre. Bractes, 

 the scales of the bud, cordate, scariose, and nearly cadu- 

 cous. Calyx, segments five, oblong ; margins glandular. 

 Petals oval, short clawed, the length of the peduncles. 

 Filaments about thirty, shorter than the petals. Germ 

 ovate, one celled, containing two ovula attached to the 

 same side of the cell. Style the length of the stamina. 

 Stigma large. Drupe cordate, with an obtuse rising at 

 the apex, the size of the common plum, and of the same 

 purple colour, covered with a similar bloom, grooved on 

 one side. Pulp in large quantity, of a pale reddish yellow. 

 Seed single, conform to the nut. Integument single. 

 Perisperm a thin covering on one side only. Embryo 

 inverse. Cotyledons unequal, the small one doubled, 

 and embraced by the larger, subequitant. 



ALANGIUM. Juss. 

 Calyx from six to seven-toothed. Corol from six to 

 seven-petalled. Germ inferior, one-celled, one-seeded, 

 attachment superior. Drupe one- seeded. Embryo in- 

 verse, furnished with a perisperm. 



A. hexapetalum. Willd. 2. 1174. 



Arboreous, with the branchlets sometimes ending in 



