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entire, smooth, from one to four inches long, and from one 

 and a half to two broad. Peduncles axillary, short, round, 

 smooth, ramous, each ramification supporting a little glo- 

 bular liead, of small yellow corollets. Calyx, commcm pe- 

 rianth scarcely any, a globular common receptacle unites 

 the corollets, with which it is every where covered. No 

 proper perianth. Corollets supported upon columnar, par- 

 tial pedicels, one petalled, imperforated, five-cleft ; se^- 

 ments acute, erect, with the bottom woolly. Filaments ten, 

 twice the length of the corollets, erect, inserted into the 

 mouth of the tube. Anthers oblong, lower, bifid. Germs in- 

 ferior, sessile, compressed, ending in the pedicel of the co- 

 rollet, which is permanent, and looks like a remaining 

 stile. Style awled, rather shorter than the stamen. Stigma 

 acute. Pericarp none. Seeds single, oblong, perpendi- 

 cularly surrounded with a rigid, narrow ring. Receptacle 

 globular, a little scaly. 



2. C. acuminata. R. 



Leaves oval, pointed. Panicles undivided ; corollets a- 

 petalous, decandrous. 



Teling. Paunchinan. 



This second species is also a large timber tree, a na- 

 tive of the same places. It flowers during the cold season. 



Trunk equally high with that of the preceding species, 

 but seldom or never straight. Bark ash-coloured. Branch- 

 es very numerous, spreading, with their extremities pen- 

 dulous like the weeping willow, the whole forming a most 

 beautiful, large, regular, ever-green top. Leaves nearly 

 opposite, short-petioled, oblong, pointed, entire ; when 

 young downy ; when old smooth, about two inches long, 

 and one broad. Peduncles axillary, single, simple, un- 

 divided ; each bearing one small globular head of small 

 yellow corollets. 



These trees are valuable on account of their wood, 

 particularly the first, Shereman; its timber is univer- 



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