86 DIDYNAMIA ANG lOSPERMl A. Gmeliua. 



3. G. villosa. Roxh. 



Arboreous, spinous. Leaven opposite, petioletl, trapezi- 

 forni, riJther sub-locate, downy underneath. Racemes termi- 

 nal. Bracies lanceolate, cuspidate. Drupes spherical. 



Kadix deipara. Rumpli. Amh. ii. p. 124. t. 39. 



A native of Pulo Pinang; from thence introduced by Dr. 

 W. Hunter, into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1602. In 

 six years, the seedling- plants had reached the size of small 

 trees, and are in flower and fruit all the year round. 



Trunk, in our-young" trees, straight, as thick as a man's leg-. 

 Bark olive-coloured. Branches numerous, spreading, and 

 drooping in every direction; young shoots round, and vil- 

 lous. Leaves opposite, petioled, trapeziform, m ith the margins 

 entire, except that the rounded side angles sometimes project 

 into lobes, and the apex is generally acute, smooth on the up- 

 per side, pale and downy on the under one, from one to four 

 inches long, and from one to two broad. Stipules none. Racemes 

 terminal, simple, downy. Floivers opposite, pedicelled, droop- 

 ing, and scarcely so large as in G. asiatica, dull yellow, on 

 account of their being clothed with ferruginous pubescence. 

 Bracies large, lanceolate, cuspidate, continuing- till the 

 flowers expand. Calyx small, obscurely tour-toothed, with 

 some large glands on the under side, as in G. asiatica, but 

 larger and more numerous, permanent. Coro/Avilh a narrow, 

 curved, cylindric tube, and oblique gibbous-campanulate 

 throat. Border four-parted, of which the lower one is 

 much larger, and is a continuation of the protruded side of 

 the throat. Filaments curved, one of the pairs much long- 

 er. Anthers bifid. Germ round, smooth, four-celled, with 

 one seed in each, attached to the top of the axis. Style as 

 long as the long pair of filaments. Stigma of two, very 

 unequal, acute lobes. Drupe spherical, size of a large 

 cherry, fleshy, smooth, M'hen ripe yellow, one-celled. Nut 

 obovate, obscurely four-lobed, smooth, four-celled, perforat- 

 ed by a conic cavity with its wide end downwards. 1 his per- 

 foration is moie or less on one side of the centre, according to 



