160 M0XADELPH1A DODECANDBiA. Pterospermum. 



2. p. suberij'olium. Willd. iii. 728. 



Leaves cuneate-oblono, towards the apex repaud-dentate. 



Peiita petes sitbcrijhiia. Linn. Cavan. Sec, 



Moochukoouda . Asiat. lies. ii. 349. 



Tam. Taddo-marum. 



Beng. Mooch'/koonda, >l?<.-k?/ndff. 



A native of inouiitainoiis tracts all over India. Flowering- 

 time the beoinning of the l;ot season. 



Trunk erect, growing- to be a limber tree of middling size. 

 Branches numerous in all directions; fionnp shoots, leaves, 

 petioles, bractes,am\ calyx, covered with stellate, rust-colour- 

 ed hairs. Leaves alternate, bifarioui-, short petioled, cuneate- 

 oblong-, repaud-dentate round the apex, in some plants deep- 

 ly lobate, s^^ometimes even peltate and pinnatifid. Flowers 

 axillary, short ped uncled, large, pure white, fragrant, some- 

 thing like the best cloves. Bractes,ivom four to six surround- 

 ing the base of the calyx, like an inferior perianth, wedge- 

 formed ; the exterior half variou-ly and deeply divided. 

 Calijx five-leaved ; leaflets linear, very long, revolute, hairy 

 on the inside. Petals obliquely Avedge-fornied. Filaments in- 

 serted into a columnar receptacle round the apex of the base 

 of the oblong hairy germ, as in Greivia. Anthers a pollinife- 

 rous groove on each side of the upper third, or fourth part of 

 the filaments. Germ elevated on a strong, columnar recep- 

 tacle, common to it and the stamens. Capsule and seed as 

 in the o-erms. The wood is white, and too soft to be of much 

 use. 



3. P. semi-uigittatum. Bnch. 



Leaves sub-lanceolate, entire, base of the inferior half pro- 

 truded. Flowers terminal, and solitary. Capsule oblong- 

 elliptic, densely clothed with stellate pubescence. 



Found by Dr. Buchanan at Cliittagong, and from thence 

 seeds were sei:t by him to the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 

 1797, where the trees grow luxuriantly, and flower about 

 the close of the hot season, ripening their seeds ten months 



