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ovate. iSfy^e the length of the stamens, villous. Stigma 

 large, somewhat three-lobed. 



The mature fruit has not been seen. 



4. C, glabra. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves bifarious, alternate, drooping, 

 ovate-lanceolate, slightly and remotely serrulate, smooth. 

 Flowers axillary, decandrous. Stamens and nectaries 

 inserted distinctly from each other. 



Of this there is a single small tree in the Botanic gar- 

 den at Calcutta, raised from seed from the Molucca Is- 

 lands ; it is in flower most part of the year, but never pro- 

 duces fruit, yet the flowers seem perfect hermaphrodites. 

 The trees are now above ten years old, with a straight 

 trunk, up through the diverging, or rather drooping 

 branches to the very top of the little tree. 



5. C. tomentosa. R. 



Leaves alternate, oblong, serrate, downy. Flowers 

 axillary, octandrous. Stamina and nectaries united at 

 the base. 



Teling. Garagwdoo. 



A small handsome tree, a native of most of the Circars, 

 but not abundant. It flowers about the beginning of 

 the hot season. 



Trunk erect. Branches spreading, horizontal ; branch' 

 lets bifarious ; young shoots downy. Leaves alternate, 

 bifarious, short-petioled, ovate or oblong, serrate, dow- 

 ny underneath ; from three to five inches long, and from 

 one and a half to two and a half broad. Stipules small, 

 downy. Peduncles axillary, many, short, one-flowered. 

 Flowers small, downy, of a greenish yellow. Calyx 

 five-cleft to the bottom ; segments oval, hairy. Nectary a 

 small flat ring surrounding the base of the germ ; from it 

 projects eight, clubbed, hairy divisions. Filaments eight. 



