Berria. polyandria monogynia. 639 



Carey, whose name the genus bears. Its numerous, very 

 large beautiful pink flowers appear in February and March 

 and the seed ripens in June and July. 



BERRIA. R. 



Ger. Char. Calyx five parted. Corol five-petalled. 

 Germ superior, three-ctlled ; cells many-seederl ; attach- 

 ment anterior. Capsule three-seeded, three-valved, six- 

 winged. Seeds a few in each cell. Embryo inverse aud 

 furnished with a perisperni. 



B. Amomnilla. R* 



Cing. A.mnionilla. 



Eng. Trincomalee wood tree. 



A native of Ceylon and one of their largest and most 

 useful timber trees. Much of the wood is annually ex- 

 ported from Trincomalee. Trunk in young trees in the 

 Botanic garden at Calcutta, straight with smooth, light 

 brown bark, and an extensive, very dense, shady head. 

 Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, sometimes slightly 

 scolloped, from five to seven-nerved, acute, smooth on 

 both sides, from four to eight inches long^. Petioles rather 

 shorter than the leaves, slender, round, smooth, an J often 

 coloured. Stipules ensiform. Panicles terminal, and axil- 

 lary, large, ramose, bearing numerous, elegant, middle- 

 sized white flowers. Calyx one-leaved, downy, on the 

 outside splitting irregularly into three, four, or five seg- 

 ments, permanent. Petals five-spreading, linear-oblong, 

 double the length of the calyx or more. Filaments nu- 

 merous, half the length of the petals. Anthers incumbent, 



* This Dr. R. is inclined to consider a perfectly distinct, and 

 well marked, hitherto undescribed genus, which he has named after 

 Dr. Andrew Berry of Madras, an eminent Physician and Botanist, 

 to whose abilities and industry, the Botanic garden at Calcutta is 

 much indebted. It appears to belong to Jussieu's natural order, 

 Malvacece. 



