Gyrocaipus. xetuandiua MONoavNiA. 465 



Leaven opposite, sbort-petioletl, spreading, lanceolate, entire, wav- 

 ed, smooth, shinning; abouS two inches lung, and three -fourths of an 

 inch broad. — StlpuUs none. — Racemes thyisiform, terminal, com- 

 pound, small, creel. — F/uzcers small, reddish. — Ca/j/o: superior. Tube 

 short, a little gibbous. Border I'our-cleft ; divisions ovate, expand- 

 ing, coloured.— *Co/u/ no other than the above, except the nectary be 

 such. — Neclaiy four-leaved, obcordate, notched, inserted into the 

 moudi of the calyx. — Filaments four, short, hairy, inserted into the 

 calyx, alternate widi the leaflets of the nectary. — Germ globular, 

 St^le length of the tube. Stigma four-lobed. — Bern/ globular, size 

 of a large pea, smooth, juicy, black, when ripe one-seeded. 



Obs. Birds greedily eat the berries, by which means it is propa- 

 gated extensively. I do not know that the wood of tins small tree 

 is ever used as u peifuine. 



GYROCARPUS.Jacg.Gart. 

 Calyx superior, four-leaved, unequal. Corol none. 'Nectary of 

 four clavate glands, alternate With Uie stamina. Berry dry, one-seed. 

 ed, ending in two long wings. Embryo erect, spirally rolled up; no 

 perispenu. 



]. G. Jacquini, Roxb. Corom, Fl. \. N.l. 



Polygamous. Panicles dichotomous. 



Gyrocaipus asiaticus, Linn. Sp. FL ed. JVilld. iv. p. 982. 



Teling. Tanukoo. 



Grows to be a very large tree, is chiefly a native of the mountain- 

 ous parts of the coast of Coromandel. Leaves deciduous about the 

 end of the wet season. Flowers during the co}d season when the 

 trees are naked ; the leaves come out soon after. 



Tru7ik generally erect. Bark smooth, greenish, ash-coloured.— 

 Branches thin, irregularly spreading in every direction.— ieates ap- 

 proximated, about the extremities of the branchlels petioled, broad- 

 cordate, three-nerved, often slightly lobed, above smooth, below 

 downy, with two pits on the upper side of the base; length and 



