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countries east of Bengal, where it blossoms in April ; the 

 fruit ripens in November, and is eaten by the natives. 



9. D. lance(Gfolia R. 



Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate, and polished. Flow- 

 ers sessile ; the male flowers crowded in axillary heads ; 

 the hermaphrodite solitary. 



Goohd the vernacular name in Silhet, where it grows 

 to be a pretty large tree, and furnishes the natives with 

 hard durable timber, for the construction of their habita- 

 tions, &c. Flowering time in April; the fruit is edible. 



Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, lanceolate, 

 entire, lucid ; texture particularly hard ; from four to six 

 inches long, and from one to two broad. 



Male Flowers sessile, and crowded together in the 

 axills of the present leaves as well as in those of last year ; 

 it is the only species I have yet met with that has sessile 

 flowers. Calyx downy, four- toothed. Corol with gib- 

 bous tube and imbricated four-parted border. Filaments 

 about sixteen, short, inserted into the receptacles. An- 

 thers linear. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, 

 cernuous. Calyx downy, from four to five-toothed ; from 

 the apex a keel runs dow n on the outside. Corol downy 

 on the outside. Tube gibbous. Border from four to five- 

 parted; segments cordate, imbricated in the bud. Filaments 

 from eight to ten, short, inserted on the base of the tube of 

 the corol. Anthers linear. Germ hairy, ovate, torulose, 

 eight-celled, with one ovula in each attached to the top of 

 the axis. Style scarcely any. Stigma \\ ith about as many 

 short divisions as there are cells in the germ. 



10. D. sijlvatica. Willd. 4. 1108. R. Corom. R. 1. No. 47. 



Leaves from oval to oblong, smooth. Male peduncles 



many-flowered, with about eighteen single-anthered fila- 



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