640 POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Humea. 



two-lobed, of a bright yellow. Germ superior, hairy, ovate, 

 three-lobed, three celled, with about six or ei^ht oviila 

 in each, attached in two vertical rows to the axis. Style 

 short. Stigma three-cleft. 



Ccrpiw/fs six-winged, round, three-celled, three-valved, 

 each valve ornamented with two lar^^e oblong, membra- 

 naceous, reticulated, expanding villous wings. Seeds 

 from one to four in each cell, irregularly ovate, clothed 

 vith much stiff, light brown, short hair, affixed to the 

 central receptacle near its apex. The hair very readi- 

 ly enters the skin and produces as much painful itch- 

 ing as that of Carpopogon pruriens ( DoHchos pruriens 

 Linn.) Integuments three, the exterior one friable, light- 

 Irown; the second tough, smooth and darker coloured; 

 the inner one a membrane adhering to the pcrispenn. Pe~ 

 risperm conform to the seed, amygdaline. Embryo in- 

 verse, of a pale yellow. Cotyledons roundish, frou) five to 

 seven-nerved, P/j/myfa two-lobed. J^atZ/c/e ollong, supe- 

 rior, with its point immediately within the umbillicus. 



HUMEA. R. 

 Gen. Cfiar. Calyx simple, five-parted. Carol five- 

 pctalled. Nectary five-leaved between the germ and 

 numerous stamina. Germ superior, five-celled ; cells two- 

 seeded. Style and stigma simple. Capsules as far as 

 five, one-celled, twc-valved. Seeds one or two. Embryo 

 erect, without a perispcrm. 



1. H. elata. R. 



Mas-jot the vernacular name at Chittagong, where the 

 tree is indigenous and grows to a very great size par- 

 ticularly in the back part of that province. Flowering 

 time the month of May ; the seed ripens in October, No- 

 vember and December. 



Note. This truly majestic tree, appears to constitute 

 a new. genus in the class Polyandria, and order Mono- 



