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lip densely clothed with violet coloured liairs. Bractes very- 

 minute, and caducous. Calyx five-toothed. Corol with an 

 unequal, five-cleft border ; lower division large, round and 

 curled. Filaments purple, protruded in a recurved manner. 

 Anthers purple, two-lobed. Drupe oval, smooth, of a shining- 

 black. Pulp very soft, and in large quantity, of a dirty black 

 colour. Nut oblong, compressed, somewhat furrowed, four- 

 celled, it is rare however that all are fertile. Seed lanceolate, 

 the upper end obtuse. Integuments single, white, and spongy. 

 Perisperni none. Embryo erect. Cotyledons conform to the 

 seed, long obovate, of a tender, oily texture, pale white. Pa- 

 nicle conic, inferior. 



10. V. heterophylla, R. 



Leaves long-petioled, ternate and quinate ; leaflets all long- 

 petioled, broad-lanceolate, entire, acuminate, smooth. 



A tall, slow-growing timber tree, a native of the Tippera 

 forests ; it has been fourteen years in the Botanic garden at 

 Calcutta, and is thirty feet high without having blossomed. 



11. V. Saligna. R. 



Leaves ternate and quinate ; leaflets petioled, lanceolar, 

 entire, smooth. Panicles axillary, dichotomous. 



A tree of considerable size; a native of the forests in the in- 

 terior parts of Coromandel, from thence introduced by Dr. 

 B. Heyne into the Botanic garden where it blossoms in April 

 and May. 



PREMNA. Schreh. gen. N. 1025. 

 Calyx from three to five-toothed. Corol irregular, four or 

 five-cleft, woolly. Anthers twin. Germ, superior, four-cell- 

 ed ; cell one-seeded ; attachment interior. Stigma two-cleft. 

 Drupe with a four-celled nut. Seed solitary. Embryo erect, 

 without perispenn. 



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