78 DiDYNAMiA ANGiosPERMiA. Premtia. 



Beng. Goniari. 



Cormitioidcs. Hor. Zeyl. .V. 410. 



A small lamoiis tree, found iu woods near Calcutta. 

 Flowering time, the beginning- of the rainy season. The fruit 

 ripens in three months afterwards. 



Thorns are found on the trunk and larger branches only, 

 large and strong, placed opposite and spreading. Leaves 

 generally opposite, though sometimes three, or even four- 

 fold, petioled, oval, entire, obtuse, smooth on both sides; 

 from two to three inches long. Pe<Jo/es short, smooth, slight- 

 ly channelled. Stipules none. Corymbs terminal, ped un- 

 cled, first ramification cross-armed, the rest two-forked, 

 in branchlets with the leaves three-fold, the first ramifica- 

 tions of the corymbs are also three- fold, &c. Bractes, a small 

 one below each ramification. Flowers very numerous, small, 

 of a greenish yellow, very hairy, and of an offensive smell. 

 Calyx three-cleft. Coral, tube thrice as long as the calyx ; 

 throat woolly ; upper divisions of the border twice as long as 

 the upper divisions of the border of the corol. Calyx the 

 length of the stamens. Drupe globular, black, smooth, the 

 size of a small pea. JVut turbinate, rough, four-celled. 



5. P. cordij'olia. Roxh. 



Shrubby. Leaves cordate and cordate-ovate, entire, smooth, 

 with the upper surface bullate and shining. Corymbs termi- 

 nal, decussate, w ith ramifications dichotomous. 



Folium hircinum. Rumph. Amb, iii. t. 133. agrees ra- 

 ther better u ith this species, than with any other 1 have yet 

 found in India. 



A native of Prince of A^'^ales' Island, and from thence in- 

 troduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1798, where 

 it thrives and blossoms during the hot months of May and 

 June. 



Trunk erect ; branches few, some straight, and free of 

 branchlets as a rattan ; others ramulose, and straggling; the 

 height of the plants in this garden, in four years, is from six to 



