390 DECANDRIA MONOGYNiA. Heynea. 



Germ two-celled ; cells two-seeded ; attachment interior. 

 Capsule superior, one-celled, two-valved, one-seeded. 

 Seed arilled. Embryo inverse, without perisperm. 



1. H. trijuga. R, 



Leaves unequally pinnate ; leaflets three pair. Pani- 

 cles axillary, lonj;-peduncled. 



Kapyakooshee. 



A native of Nepal ; from thence, in 1802, Dr. Bucha- 

 nan sent seeds of this tree, to the liotanic garden at Cal- 

 cutta, under the vernacular name yakooshee, where in se- 

 ven years, the young trees were about fifteen, and twenty 

 feet high, with much the habit of the Walnut tree. Flow- 

 ering time in the Botanic garden, March ; the seed ripens 

 in October. 



Trunk straight, in our young trees about as thick as a 

 man's thigh. Bark dark ash-coloured, and pretty smooth. 

 Branches few ; young shoots marked with scabrous spots. 

 Leaves unequally pinnate, alternate, from one to two feet 

 long. Leaflets opposite, short-petioletted, two or three 

 pair, ovate-oblong, acuminate, entire, smooth, from four 

 to eight inches long, and from two to four broad. Peti- 

 oles round, smooth, swelled at the insertion of the leaflets. 

 Petioles channelled, less than an inch long. Stipules 

 none. Panicles axillary, solitary, long peduncled, smooth, 

 erect. Flowers numerous, small, white. Bractes minute, 

 caducous. Calyx one-leafed, five-toothed, permanent. 

 Petals five, cuneate-lanceolate, spreading. Neciarium 

 subcylindric, shorter than the petals, half ten-cleft, divi- 

 sion alternately a little shorter, bifid. Filaments scarcely 

 any. Anthers ten, ovate, three-lobed, crowned with an 

 obtuse point, attached to the inside of the divisions 

 of the nectary. Germ superior, immersed in a large 

 fleshy ring, two-celled, with two ovula in each, attached 

 to the middle of the partition. Style short. Stigma 

 large, nearly round, with a two- toothed apex which is ra- 



