Gmelhia. didynamia angiospermia. 83 



cleft. Germ superior, four-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attach- 

 ment sub-superior. Drupe with a nut, from one to four-cell- 

 ed. Embryo erect, without perisperni. 



I . G. ohlonyifolia. R. 



Arboreous. Zeaues opposite, oblong. Panicles terminal, 

 brachiate. Drupes oblong, lucid. A slow growing, tall tim- 

 ber tree; a native of the eastern parts of Beng-al ; flowering 

 in March and April; the seed ripens in August and Septem- 

 ber. 



Trunk, in trees fourteen years old in the Botanic garden, 

 straight, from twelve to fifteen feet to the branches, and 

 about eighteen inches in circumference. Bark ash-co- 

 loured, and a little cracked. Branches ascending. Young 

 shoots somewhat four-sided, total height of our young- 

 trees from twenty to thirty feet. Leaves opposite, petioled, 

 from oval to oblong, entire, somewhat rough, rather obtuse, 

 with a glandular impression on each side of the base of 

 the rib or nerve, from six to twelve inches long, and from 

 three to eight broad. Petioles about two inches loDg, chan- 

 nelled. Slipales none. Panicles terminal, solitary, broad- 

 ovate, decussate; ramifications four-cornered, clothed with 

 a brownish mealiness. Bractes small, and very early cadu- 

 cous. Flowers numerous, large, rosy and fragrant. Calyx 

 cyathiform, entire, mealy, a few glands on the outside. Corol 

 irregular. Tube short and curved. Throat obliquely campa- 

 nulate. Bor</er five-parted ; loicer segment longer, with a 

 deep yellow mark in the centre of its base. Stamina as in the 

 gexnis. Jntkers bipartite. Germ superior, turbinate, smooth, 

 four-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached from a little 

 under the apex, to the upper part of the axis. Style the 

 length of (he stamina. *S'i!J</m« of two unequal lobes. Drupe 

 oblong, somewhat four-cornered, and obtuse, size of a large 

 olive, smooth, when ripe of a shining bright crimson colour, 

 one-celled. JS/"ut clavate, four-cornered, four-celled, pei- 

 forated from the base up the centre. Seed solitary, lanceo- 



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