644 poiiYAMDRiA MONOGYNiA. Roydsia. 



sant odour throu<;h the forest, where they ^rrow. The seed 

 ripens in August and September. Stent stout, woody 

 and v.ith its numerous branches climbing over trees to 

 a great extent. Bark of the young shoots green, void 

 of pubescence, but covered with numerous, small, ele- 

 vated, whitish specks. Leaves alternate, short petioled, 

 oblong, entire, of a firm texture, and smooth on both sides, 

 sometimes pointed, about six inches long, and about 

 two and a half and three broad. Stipules none. Inflo- 

 rescence terminal, and axillary, when terminal it is gene- 

 rally a long slender panicle, as long as the leaves; when 

 axillary^ a simple raceme. Flowers numerous, alternate, 

 short-pedicelled, pretty large, ola pale yellow, and fr.igrant. 

 Bractes solitary, oblong, villous, one-flowered. Calyx in- 

 ferior, one-leaved, six-cleft, villous. Segments ovate, in a 

 double series, the exterior three rather longer than the 

 others. Coro? none, nor any thing like a nectarial orgart. 

 Filaments numerous, (about 100,) the length of thepistil- 

 lum, the pedicel of which is inserted on the apex of a 

 short column. Anthers incumbent. Germ pedicelled 

 above the elevated receptacles of the stamina, oblong, 

 three-celled, with about two rows of ovula in each, at- 

 tached to the axis. Style very short. Stigma trifi I. 

 Drupe pedicelled, of the size of a large olive, oval, cover- 

 ed with a rather scabrous, orange-coloured, thin, brittle 

 cortex, one-celled. Pw/p in considerable quantity, soft 

 and yellow. Nut oblong; texture of a ligneous nature, 

 thin, one-celled, and three valved. Seeds solitary, con- 

 form to the nut. Integument single, men;branaceous. 

 Perispeini none. Embryo erect. Cotyledons tw o, unequal, 

 the larger one deeply concave, receiving the smaller one 

 doubled into its concavity, as in Shorea ; they are of a 

 firm fleshy texture, and yellowish, Hadicle inferior, and 

 rather within the base of the cotyledons. 



