Pterospernuim. rionadelphia dodecandria. 1G3 



ma clavate, five-grooved. Capsule woolly, clavate-oblono-, 

 without angles, slightly marked with five longitndinni linos, 

 where the valves separate, from two to three inches long, 

 and about one in diameter, generally o])tuse, densely cloth- 

 ed with hoary, stellate pubescence, five-celled, five-valved. 

 Seeds as far as four in each cell, two generally ripening, ob- 

 liquely oval, compressed ; on the upper end is a thin, broad, 

 brown, membranaceous wing. Intpguments two ; the exterior 

 one thick, with a rough, brown, spongy surface ; the inner 

 one tough, and lightly coloured. Perisperm conform to the 

 seed, thin. Embryo erect. Cotyledons foliaceous, intricate- 

 ly folded. Radicle cylindric, inferior. 



Velaga xylocarpa, Gtert. Senu ii. 245. t. l:]3./. 2, agrees 

 uncommonly well with the carpology of this, except in the 

 number of seeds in each cell of the capsule: here there can- 

 not be more than four, that being the number of their rudi- 

 ments in the germ. 



5. P. lancefpfoliniu. R. 



Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, entire. Flowers axillary, 

 long- ped uncled. Capsule lanceolate ; cells from two to four 

 seeds. 



Beny. Bun Kwlla. 



A tree, a native of the forests in the neighbourhood ofSil- 

 het, where it blossoms about the beginning of the rains in 

 May and June; and the seed ripens at the beginning of the 

 cold season. 



Youtig shoots slender, hoary, and uncommonly straight, 

 ieaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolate, with a round base, 

 entire, acuminate, hoary underneath, from three to six inches 

 long by one and a half broad. Stipules generally bifid, or 

 trifid, ferruginous. Peduncles axillary, half the length of the 

 leaves, round, slender, clavate at top, supporting a single, 

 pretty large, white fragrant flower. Bractes two, or three, 

 rather above the middle of the peduncle, like the stipule, 

 but more divided. Ca/?/.r five-cleft; .<fer/?/jfin«s linear, revo- 



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