424 DECANDRiA MONOGYNiA. HavdwicJcia. 



large size, and yields timber of an excellent quality for a 

 variety of uses. 



Trunk tolerably straight. Bark deeply cracked. Branch- 

 es numerous, spreading in every direction, with bifarious, 

 alternate, slender, smooth, waving, drooping branchlets. 

 Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, binate,with a minute 

 bristle between them. Leaflets sessile, of a shape be- 

 tween semi- cordate and reniform, entire, very smooth on 

 both sides, while young tinged with red, slightly marked 

 with three or four nerves, from one to three inches long, 

 and a little more than half of that in breadth. Petioles 

 round, smooth, about one-fourth or one-third the length 

 of the leaves. Stipules small, cordate, caducous. Pani- 

 cles terminal, and from the exterior axils, small, delicate- 

 ly slender, and smooth on every part. Flowers scatter- 

 ed, slender, pedicelled, small. Bractes minute, caducous. 

 Calyx none, except the corol be so called. Petals five, 

 obovate, concave, spreading, somewhat hoary on the 

 outside ; inside yellowish, rather longer than the stamens. 

 Filaments ten, alternately shorter, inserted round the 

 base of the germ. Anthers incumbent, ovate, with an a- 

 cute point between the lobes. Germ oblong. Style as- 

 cending. Stigma large, peltate. Legume lanceolate, from 

 two to three inches long, two-valved, striated length- 

 ways, opening at the apex. Seed solitary in the apex 

 of the legume, and there inserted, cuneate, furrowed ; 

 the posterior edge thin and somewhat membranaceous, 

 no aril. 



Some beautiful thriving young trees are in the Bota- 

 nic garden at Calcutta, reared from seeds sent from 

 the mountains of Coromandel by Dr. Berry of Madras, 

 will soon enable us to know whether this tree produ- 

 ces any thing like the medicinal balsam (Copaiva) 

 obtained from a tree M'hich seems to be very nearly alli- 

 ed to it. 



