Pentaptera. decandria monogynia. 437 



7. T. angmtifolia. WilJd. 4. 970. 



Tender parts hairy. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate ; Inlands on the margin of the base. 



Tarn. Morgatchee. 



A large tree, a native of Tinnivalle and Travancore. 

 It has now been four years in the Botanic garden at 

 Calcutta, in which time they have attained to the height 

 of ten and twelve feet, but have not blossomed. The 

 young leaves are clothed with much ferruginous hair. 

 The fruit so much like the chebula my vabolans, as scarce- 

 ly to be distinguished from it, and they possess the same 

 sensible qualities. 



8. T. gangetica. R. 



Tender parts villous. Leaves opposite, and alternate 

 ovate-oblong, acuminate, base abruptly rounded and has 

 some glands in the margin. 



A tree, a native of the banks of the Ganges, where it 

 blossoms and ripens its fruit. It is also like the Che- 

 bula myraholans, goes by the same general name. Hut 

 or Hwra, and is used for the same purposes, so that 

 it is difficult to say which of the last three species de- 

 serves most to have the specific name Chebula attached 

 to it. 



PENTAPTERA. R. 



Calyx bowl-shaped, five-toothed. Corol none. Germ 

 one-celled, ovula from two to three, pendulous. Nut infe- 

 rior, woody, five-winged. Seed single. Embryo inverse, 

 without perisperm, and the two cotyledons spirally roll- 

 ed up. 



1. P. angustifolla. R. 



Bark smooth ; branches drooping. Leaves sub-oppo- 

 site, from lanceolar to linear oblong, smooth, having two 



