636 poLYANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Carcija. 



BiTtonica terrestris rubra. Rumph. Amh.'^. i. 115. 



Teling. Cadamic. 



This species is common in most parts of India ; it 

 grows to be a large handsome tree, in appearance it is 

 more like a regular, well-.'^baped, middle-sized Oak, than 

 any other tree I have ever met with. It flowers about 

 the bednnino of the wet season. Its long pendulous 

 racemes, of scarlet-coloured flowers siive it at that time 

 a most elegant appearance. Bark dark-coloured, sca- 

 brous, tough and thick. 



8. B. speciosa. Willd. 3. 845. 



iearc^ entire. Flowers on a terminal thyrse. Fruit 

 pyramidally four-sided. 



Butonica. Rumph. Amb. 3. t. 114. 



Commersonia sonuerat. Guin. 14. t. 8. 9. 



A large, and beautiful tree, a native of the Malay 

 Archipelago and the South-ijea Lslands. 



CAREY A. R. 



Gen. Char. Calyx four-parted. Corol four-parted. 

 •S/fl/nmaicosandrous, exterior and interior filaments abor- 

 tive. Germ inferior, semiquadrilocular ; ovula numer- 

 ous; a/^ac/«me;/< sub-interior. Style s'm^lc. Berry many- 

 seeded. Seeds nidulant. Embryo simple, length of the 

 ample perisperm. 



1. C. sphcerica. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves obovate, obtuse, glossy. Berries 

 globular and crowned with the inflected flattened seg- 

 ments of the calyx. 



A large tree, a native of the mountains of Chittagong. 

 Flowerin.^ in April; the fruit ripens in July. The leaves 

 are deciduous just before the flowers expand, and appear 

 •with or immediately after them. Trunk straight, in young 



