442 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. COTlOCarpuS. 



8. P. paniculata. R. 



Branches diverging. Leaves sub-opposite, linear-ob- 

 long, with a cordate base, entire, smooth, but very hard ; 

 there are two sessile umbilicate glands underneath the 

 base. Panicles terminal. Nuts unequally three-winged. 



Tam. Pe-karakai. 



Teling. Neemeeri. 



A stout timber tree, a native of the peninsula, and 

 from thence introduced by Dr. A. Berry into the Botanic 

 garden at Calcutta, where, in eight years, from the seed 

 the young trees began to blossom in December, and the 

 seed ripened in May, they were then about twenty feet 

 high, and the stems eighteen inches in circumference at 

 four feet above the ground. 



CONOCARPUS. Sckreb. gen. n. 321. 



Flowers aggregate. Receptacle, common, globular, that 

 of the corollets columnar raising thenj above the germ. 

 Calyx bowl-shaped, five-toothed. Carol none, or five-pe- 

 talled. Stamina five or ten. Seeds naked, inferior. 



1. C, latifolia. Roxb. 



Leaves obovate, sub-re tuse. Peduncles ramous ; corol- 

 lets apetalous, decandrous. 



Teling. Sheriman. 



This is one of the largest timber trees that is to be 

 found amongst the chain of mountains, which separate 

 the Circar from the Mahratta dominions, where it is a 

 native. It flowers during the cold season, January and 

 February. 



Trunk erect, straight, varying in length and thickness, 

 the largest are thirty or thirty -five feet to the branches, 

 and about six in circumference. Bark pretty smooth, 

 of a light ash colour. Branches numerous, spreading, 

 forming a large, high, ever green head. Leaves nearly 

 opposite, short-petioled, ovate, generally emarginate. 



