Ut)afia. POLYANDRIA POLYCYNIA. 059 



die. Cahjx of three small, triangular, brownish leaflets. 

 Petals equal, ovate, cordate, acute, the exterior three re- 

 Yolute, the inner three converging, and fonnini; a conic 

 dome over the genitalia, with the only ai)ic('.s rccurvate, vil- 

 lous on the outside. Germs ten or twelve, neariy linear, in- 

 curvate, one-celled, containing two vertical rows of ovula 

 vertically attached to the inner angle of the c<'ll. Style 

 short. Stigmas somewhat capitate. Berries troin four to 

 eight, short-pedicelled, ovate, smooth, ol tin; size of a 

 pullet's egg, yellow. Seeds six or seven, placed in a doubh; 

 order, and separated from each other by a considerable 

 portion of pulp. Shape various, but always more or less 

 oval, or oblong, much flattened on both sides. Integuments 

 single, brown and pretty smooth, sub-liiineous, and thick, 

 particularly round the margins. Perisperm conform to 

 the seed, of a pale colour and horny texture, deeply inter- 

 sected with numerous brown, hard libres, which project 

 from the hard integuments of tlie seed. Fmhri/o small, 

 straight. Cotyledons ovate-oblong. Radicle oljlong, im- 

 mediately within the umbilicus and pointing to it. 



2. U. dioeca. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves from lanceolate to oblong, acuminate, 

 smooth. P€c?Mncfes lateral, two-flowered. Ca/y.r .six-leav- 

 ed. Corol three-petalled. Berries fusiform, one-seeded. 



Tusbee, is the vernacular name in .Silhet, where the 

 shrub is indigenous. It flowers in April and May, and the 

 seed ripens in September. Trunk short, soon dividing into 

 many branches and bifurious villous l-ranchlcts. Leaves 

 short-petioled, bifarious, from lanceolate to oljloiig, entire, 

 smooth, except while very young, taper-pointed, from 

 three to six inches long, and from one to two broad. Pe- 

 dMwc/es lateral, and generally l>cl<)w the leaves, two toijp- 

 ther, or bifid, villous, about an inch long. Bractes lan- 

 ceolate, villous. Flowers of a middling size, drooping. 

 On some shrubs I could discover only male, and on others 



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