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loured. Branches opposite ; the tender parts round and sllghty vil- 

 lous. — Leaves opposite, long-petioled, temate. Leojiets lanceolar 

 or oblong, entire, smooth on both sides, length from two to ten in- 

 ches, and from one to four-broad. — Panicles axillary, and in our 

 single young individual, shorter th.an the petioles, biacluate, villous. 



— Hozcers numerous, minute white, inodorous. Bractes triangular, 

 suliLary below the divisions of the panicle. — Calyx: smali, one-leav- 

 ed, four-tooihed. — Fetals four, oblong, white, smooth, spreeding, 

 length of the pistil, and four times longer than the calyx — Filaments 

 four, length of the petals. Anthers oblong, incumbent. — Germ su- 

 perior, roundish, woolly, four-grooved for the filaments to rest in, 

 four-ceiled, with two ainla in each cell, attached to the middle of the 

 thickened axis. Sti/le as long as the germ. 5^/g-?/<a large, four-lobed. 



— Capsule from one to four, distinct, obovate, smooth, size of a field 

 bean, one-celled, two-valved, opening along the upper and inner 

 niarg'.n, aiid round (he apex; a portion on the back does not separate 

 spontaneously. — Heeds generally two, roundish, siz>? of a grain of 

 black pepper, shining, blackish-chesnut colour, as in the allied 

 Xamhoij/lmn alatura- 



2. F. Budrrmga, R. 



Arboreous, armed with small incurved acnlei. Leaves pinnate; 

 leaf els five or six pair, uncquuUy ovate, lanceolate, entire, accumi- 

 iiate; panicles crowded. 



B//dr//ng the vernacular name in Silhet, where it grows to be a large 

 tree. BlosIouiS in March and April, and the seeds lipen in July and 

 August ; tliey are used medicinally by the natives, being of a warm 

 spicy nature \^ith the fragrance of Lemon peel. 



Trunk straight, while young armed, but by age the aculei fall off. 

 Branches and branchlels armed with innumerable, small, white, sharp, 

 incurved prickles.- leam crowded, from six to ten inches Ion-. 

 Leaflets five or six pair, opposite or nea.ly so, unequallv ovate-lance- 

 olate, entire, finely acuminate, smooth, from three to four inches long, 

 bv one and u luilf broad.— Fo/z/f/cs tenuinul; much crowded, long- 



