MilUngionia. ' dianuria monogynia. lOS 



terruginous pubescence. — Calyx three-leaved, indepeudently of two 

 or three minute, villous bractes, like a calyde ; leaflets ovate, smooth, 

 permanent.— Pe^a/s three, broad-ovate, waved, twice the length of 

 the calyx, permanent, — Nectary a variously lobed, smooth scale from 

 the base of each petal on the inside, they form a dome over the pis- 

 tillum, and round the base of the germ is found a flat, triangular 

 body, with its angles bidentate. — Filaments two, opposite, incurved, 

 inserted without the interior, three-angular nectary ; bifid, the in- 

 ner lamina supporting on its apex a patelliform receptacle, on which 

 the two-lobed yellow anther rests. Exterior lamina bifid, segments su- 

 bulate, rising rather higher than the anther.— Germ superior, two- 

 celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the thickened middle of the 

 partition. Style single, short. Stigma obscurely two-lobed. — Drupe 

 size of a pea, nearly round, succulent, smooth, black, one-celled. Nut 

 conform to the drupe, rarely more than one-celled, hard, cell some- 

 what angular ; the second or abortive cell always traceable.— Seed 

 solitary, concave on the side next the abortive cell of the nut, hem- 

 ispheric on the other. Integument single, membranaceous. — Peri' 

 sperm none. — Embryo curved, and doubled, as in the Convolvulacea 

 with a curved inferior radicle. 



3. M. pinnata. R. 



Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate ; leaflets from six to twelve pair, 

 sub-opposite, lanceolate. 



Batiwa, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it in indigenous, 

 growing to be a middling sized tree, the wood of which is employ- 

 ed by the natives in constructing their houses. Flowers in April 

 and May, The seeds ripen in September, 



Branchlets smooth. — Leaves alternate, abruptly-pinnate ; from six 

 to eighteen inches long. Leaflets from six to twelve pair, sub-opposite, 

 short-petioled, lanceolate, remotely serrate, acuminate, smooth, 

 three to six inches long, by one or one and a half broad. — Panicles ter- 

 minal, very large and very ramous, a little hairy. — Bractes minute. — 

 JF/oti^ers numerous, small, white. — Ca/yx three-leaved with two small- 

 er ones under them, which may be called bractes or a calyck ; or» 



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