•T4: DIDYN.VMIA ANGIOSPI3UM1A. Vltex. 



somewhat gil)l>ous, rather longer than the calyx, inside hairy 

 at the bottom ; throat compressed laterally ; border two-lip- 

 ped ; the upper Up erect, two-clet't ; the under lip reflexed, 

 three-cleft, having- the middle division largest, concave, and 

 of a deep blue colour. Filaments twice the length of the 

 tube, subulate. Anthers, split from the bottom up. Style, 

 length of the filaments. Drupe, of the size and appearance 

 of a black currant, smooth, succulent. Nut turbinate, very 

 hard, four-celled. Seed solitary, obovate-oblong. Integu- 

 ments two, both thin, soft, and rather succulent. Perisperm 

 none. Embryo erect. Cotyledons conform to the seed. Ra- 

 dicle oval, inferior. 



The wood of this tree when old is of a chocolate colour, ex- 

 ceedingly hard and durable, which renders it useful for va- 

 rious purposes. 



9. V. Leucoxylon. Willd. iii. 392. 



Leaves digitate, quinate ; leaflets petiolate, oblong-, very 

 generally entire, both sides smooth. Panicles axillary, di- 

 chotomous. 



Kariil. Rheed. Mai. iv. t. 36. 



A native of Ceylon, Coromandel, and the mountains of 

 Chittagong, &c. Flowering time the month of April. 



Trunk laterally straight, and in its native mountains grow- 

 ino- to be a tree of very considerable size. Bark soft, spongy 

 and cracked on the outside. Branches rather scarce and 

 spreading. Yonnr/ shoots round and smooth. Leaves opposite, 

 long-petioled, digitate, quinate, rarely ternate ; leaflets peti- 

 oled, oblong, generally entire, rather obtuse-pointed, smooth 

 and polished, from two to six inches long, and from one to 

 three broad. Petioles nearly as long the leaflets, round and 

 smooth. Stipules none. Panicles axillary, solitary, long- 

 peduncled, throughout dichotomous, with a sessile flower in 

 the forks, drooping, ramifications tending to be angular, and 

 most slightly villous. Flowers numerous, fragrant, pretty 

 large, of a whitish straw colour, with the centre of the lower 



