536 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. DlOSpyVUS. 



p-arden about sixteen feet; on the mountains of Tippera, 

 Silhet, &c. where indigenous, they grow to a great size; 

 but it is evidently a tree of very slow growth, as are 

 most, if not the whole of the genus. Leaves alternate, 

 bifarious, short-petioled, lanceolate, acute, entire, of a 

 firm texture, and deep smooth shining green on both 

 sides, from six to ten inches long, and about two or 

 three broad. Flowers collected in small, subsessile fasci- 

 cles, over the thick woody branches, the hermaphrodite 

 ones on one tree, and the male ones on another. The 

 short, thick, scaly peduncles and calyx are clothed with 

 much dark, olive-coloured down; the corol white and 

 smooth. Calyx five or six-toothed, half the length of the 

 tube of the corol. Corol one-petalled ; tube somewhat 

 gibbous, margin five or six-parted; divisions contorted, 

 sub-reniform, at first spreading then revolute. Filaments, 

 ten or twelve, inserted into the base of the tube of the 

 corol. Anthers sub-sagittate, small, and containing little 

 pollen, whence I conclude there is a male tree, which I 

 have not yet seen. Germ in the hermaphrodite flowers 

 ovate, smooth. Style short' Stigmas five or six, thick- 

 ening, expanding. Berry globulaV,^ large apple, slight- 

 ly scabrous, resting on the very thick enlarged calyx, 

 replete with yellowish edible pulp. Seeds ten or twelve, 

 oblong, thin on the inner edge where they are united to 

 the central receptacle, 



8. D. racemosa. Roxb. 



Leaves from oblong to lanceolar, obtuse, glossy. Both 

 male and hermaphrodite flowers on axillary, comose 

 racemes, the former with twenty or thirty stamina, the 

 latter with twelve or sixteen ; germ four-celled. Style, 

 none; stigma four-cleft. Berries round, smooth, with 

 as many as four seeds. 



Goolul, the vernacular name in Silhet. 



A middling sized tree, a native of the mountainous 



