Gmelina. didynamia angiospermia. 87 



the number of fertile colls, wliicli is generally one or two 

 only. Seed solitary, obovate-oblong, a little compressed. In- 

 tegument single, brown, spongy. Perisperm none. Embryo 

 erect. Cotyledons cawiorm to the seed, obcordate. Plnmula 

 two-lobed. /^arfic/e minute, inferior. 



4. G. asiaiica. Willd. iii. p. 313. 



Shrubby, spinous:. Leaves sub-opposite, oval, and some- 

 what lobed, smooth. Racemes terminal, and from the forks 

 of the branchlets. Bractes small, caducous. Fruit oval. 



Jambosa silvestris parvifolia. Rvmpli, Amh, \,p. 129. t. 40. 



Telmg. Goomoodoo. 



Is one of the most common bushes in every uncultivated 

 place over the coast of Coromandel, and in flower and fruit 

 all the year round. 



Trunk, 1 cannot say it has any thing like a distinct one, as 

 1 have always found it in the state of a large, ramous shrub. 

 Brunches numerous, very irregular. Thorns axillary, oppo- 

 site, horizontal, leaf-bearing. Leaves on the young shoots 

 generally opposite, on the woody branchlets fascicled, petio- 

 led, broad oval, or obcordate, irregularly lobed, both sides 

 smooth and shining, from one to an inch and a half long, and 

 about one broad. Racemes from the divisions of the branches, 

 or terminal. Flowers large, yellow, opposite, approximate, 

 drooping. Bractes lanceolate, small, concave, caducous. 

 Carol the upper lip largest. Anthers, all the four are two- 

 parted. Sfiyma two-parted, the lower four times longer and 

 revolute. JSTut four-celled, generally two or three of them 

 abortive. 



The only use this shrub is applied to, is for fences and fuel. 



5. G. parvijlora. Corom. pi. 2. A*. 1G2. 



Shrubby, spinous. Leaves obovate, from entire to three- 

 lobed. Racemes terminal. 

 Tel'iny. Shieri-goomoodoo. 

 Arbuscula Bisnagarica. Pluk. Aim. tab, 14.y*. 4. 



