436 DECANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Terminalia. 



Trunk straight, and of very great size. Branches 

 spreading, but not much crowded. Bark rather scabrous 

 that of the young shoots strongly marked with light co- 

 loured, elevated specks ; wood much like mahogany, 

 but finer grained ; a beautiful specimen sent to me by 

 Mr. Smith of Silhet, was accompanied with the follow- 

 ing words : — 



" This piece of wood is from a tree which I bought ; it 

 *' was eighty feet long, one straight body or trunk, and was 

 " nine feet in circumference. This wood is very hard, no 

 " insect will touch it." 



Leaves sub-opposite, short-petioled, from broad-lance- 

 olar to oblong, tapering less at the base than at the apex, 

 entire, rather obtusely acuminate, smooth and glossy on 

 both sides, from four to six inches long, and from two to 

 three broad ; when the plants are young the leaves are vil- 

 lous. Panicles terminal, and from the exterior axills, com- 

 posed of many, simple, erect, slightly villous spikes. Flow- 

 ers numerous, small, of a dull yellow, all hermaphrodite. 

 Bractes solitary, one-flowered, subulate, smooth. Calyx 

 cup shaped, five-toothed, hairy on the inside, five, very 

 hairy glands having at the bottom round the base of the 

 style. Filaments ten, alternately shorter, but all much 

 longer than the calyx, and inserted into its inside. 

 Anthers oval. Germ inferior, one-celled containing two 

 ovula attached to the top of the cell. Style shorter than 

 the stamina, smooth, ^^ma acute. i>rw/?c oblong-lan- 

 ceolar, about two inches long, and two in circumference 

 where thickest, while fresh obscurely five-cornered but 

 more clearly so when dry, of a dull orange yellow, and 

 smooth. Nut oblong, deeply five-grooved, with the fiva 

 angles sometimes sharp, sometimes rounded, one-celled. 

 Seed solitary, linear lanceolar. Jntegument single, thin, 

 of a light brown. Perisperm none. Embryo inverse. Co- 

 tyledons two, tjiin, and broad, rolled spirally up. Radicle 

 superior 



