j^ BIANDUTA MONOOYNXA. Froxinw. 



FRAXINCS. 

 Tolummous. Calyx none, or rour parted. Corol none, or four* 

 petalltd. Samara one-seeded, with lanceolate wings. 



1. F. chinensis. R. 



Arboreous, with erect branches. Leafets from "three to seven, 

 lanceolate, serrate. Panicles axillary, and terminal. Flozces without 



petals. 



A native of China, from thence introduced into the Botanic Gar- 

 den by the late Col, Robert Kyd, prior to 1793 ; where they blos- 

 som in April, but Lave not produced seed, or even full grown seed 

 vessels. 



Our small trees have little or no trunk ; but several, erect, straight 

 branches and branchlets ; givmg an entire height of from ten to 

 twelve feet. — Leaves opposite, pinnate, and ternate. Leajiets from 

 three to seven, opposite, lanceolar, .serrate, smooth. The pairs 

 short-petioled, much smaller and shorter in proportion to their 

 breadth than the terminal one, which is protruded on a longer wing- 

 ed petiolet. — Petioles channelled, sometimes with a marginal wing. 

 — Panicles axillary, and terminal, small, drooping, and composed of 

 most slender, simple, and compound, sub-verticelled ramifications. 

 — Calyx, in all, four-toothed. — Corol none. — Filanients'm the com- 

 pletely hermaphrodite jiower much longer than the calyx. In the 

 female wanting, or abortive, and hid within the calyx. Malejiowers 

 not found. — Germ ovate. Style long, and curved. Stigma emar- 

 ginate. 



2 V . fioribunda- Wall. 



Leajiets oblong, tapering, acuminate, acutely and unequally serra- 

 ted ; male flowers with a corolla. 



A native of Nepala, from whence I received specimens with male 

 flowers and others with seeds, in April, 1818, under the name 

 Kangu and Tahasee. ' 



Grows to be a large tree with smooth, ash-coloured, dotted 



