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the Botanic gar<]en at Calcutta whore it grows to be a 

 large tree with an extensive, very ramous head. Flow- 

 ering time in Bengal, March ; the fruit ripens about the 

 close of the rains. 



3. S. acuminata. R. 



Leaflets from five to eight pair, subopposite, long, oval, 

 remotely crenulate, acuminate, polished ; petioles cylin- 

 dric. 



A most elegant, middling-sized tree, with an uncom- 

 monly dense crown, a native of Malabar. In the Botanic 

 garden at Calcutta young trees reared from the seed, 

 wore in four years twenty feet high ; the trunk perfectly 

 straight ; the hark smooth, olive grey ; the branches 

 spreading in all directions from erecto-patens above, to 

 divaricate below. 



4. S. longifolia. R. 



Bark verrucose. Leaflets opposite and alternate, from 

 ten to twelve pair, very unequally ovate-oblong, entire, 

 lucid, obtusely acuminate. 



From the Mauritius this very distinct species has been 

 introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where 

 its growth is rapid ; it is nearly straight, with a few stout, 

 patently diverging, almost, simple branches, very rough 

 with brown tubercles ; the leaflets very unequally divid- 

 ed by the nerve. 



6. S. axiUaris. R. 



Leaflets from six to eight pair, ovate lanceolate, gash- 

 serrate cuspidate. Peduncles axillary, few-flowered. 

 Nut oval, smooth. 



A small beautiful Melia looking tree, a native of Ne- 

 pal. In the Botanic garden at Calcutta it flowers in 

 March, and the seed ripens about the close of the rains. 



