528 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Dlospi/rUS^ 



Kaki. Kempf. amoen. p. 805. 6. 7. 



The Chinese gardeners employed in the Botanic gar- 

 den at Calcutta call it Chin. 



A native of China, and from thence introduced into 

 the Botanic garden at Calcutta, by the late Col. Kyd, 

 where it blossoms in March. 



In twelve years they have only grown to be from 

 twelve to fifteen feet high, withbut few sub-erect branches. 

 The bark is pretty smooth, but of a dark brown colour, 

 that of the young shoots downy. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, cordate, more or less 

 acuminate, entire, very downy on both sides, particu- 

 larly while young ; from, two to five inches long, and from 

 one to four broad. Stipules none. 



Abortive Hermaphrodite, or rather male flowers 

 small, yellow, sometimes on the same, sometimes on a dif- 

 ferent tree. Peduncles axillary, and from the base of 

 the young shoots, recurved, short, villous, from one to 

 three or more-flowered. jSracfes small, caducous. Ca- 

 lyx four-cleft ; divisions ovate, half the length of the co- 

 rol. Corol urceolate ; mouth four-cleft ; divisions con- 

 torted, sub-orbicular, emarginate, becoming revolute soon 

 after expansion. Filaments from sixteen to twenty- 

 four, or even more, very short, inserted sometimes by 

 hairs, sometimes singly round the bottom of the tube of 

 the corol. Anthers sagittate, hid in the tube of the corol. 

 Pistil none, or in some trees a small, conical villous 

 gland. 



Fertile Hermaphrodite flowers solitary, on short 

 drooping peduncles. Calyx and corol as in the abortive 

 hermaphrodite, but larger. Fitomew^s generally eight, short, 

 inserted into the bottom of the tube of the corol. Anthers 

 sagittate, with the barbs bearded. Germ superior, coni- 

 cal, smooth, eight-celled, attached to the top of the axis. 

 Style four-cleft. Stigmas two-lobed. Berry nearly round, of 

 the size of a small orange, when ripe yellow, smooth, and 



