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Kada Kandel. Rlieed. 3Ial. vol. 6. t. 37. 



Beng. Kripa. 



A pretty hiri;e treo, a native of the Delta of the Ganges, 

 where the sprin<j-tides rise so high as to overflow the 

 ground on uhich they grow. Flowering time the hot season. 

 Irunk straight, bark scabrous. Branches numerous, 

 erect, and ascending, with dark brown, smooth, bark. 

 Leaves alternate, subsessile, obovate, emarginate, slight- 

 ly crenate, almost veinless, smooth on both sides, and 

 fleshy, about two inches long, and one broad. Stipules 

 none. Spikes axillary, solitary, generally simple, about 

 as long as the leaves, each bearing from six. to twelve, 

 alternate, small, white flowers. Bractes, a very minute 

 one at the base of each germ, and two growing on the 

 opposite sides of its middle. Calyx five-toothed ; teeth 

 rounded and frequently unequal. Petals five, inserted 

 within the fissures of the calyx, oblong, entire, first ex- 

 panding, then recurved. Filaments ten, alternately a 

 little longer, about the length of the petals. Anthers 

 ovate. Germ inferior, ovate, compressed. Style awled, 

 as long as the stamens. Stigma acute. Pericarpium a 

 small ovate, oblong, compressed, drupaceous berry, with 

 a single linear, oblong seed. 



The wood is remarkably strong and durable; it is much 

 used for posts and other parts of the houses of the na- 

 tives, but its chief consumption about Calcutta is for fuel, 

 large quantities being brought daily from the Sunder- 

 bunds (low parts of the Delta,) for that purpose. 



1 doubt if this can with propriety be considered a Pe- 

 taloma. The habit does not by any means agree. It 

 will probably form a genus. 



RUT A. Schreh. gen. n. 725. 



CfJyjc five-parted. Pcfa/s concave. Receptacle oi the 

 germ impressed with ten melliferous pits. Capsule lohsite. 



