164 MONADELPHiA POLYANDRiA. Adunsonia. 



lute, hoary. Petals five, rather longer than the calyx, ob- 

 liquely cuneiform. Stamina as in the genus, viz. fifteen 

 fertile filaments, with five longer, sterile ones; ail are united 

 at the base, and inserted on the cylindric receptacle, which 

 elevates them and the germ. Anthers fifteen, linear, erect. 

 Germ oblong, five-celled, wit!i about four seeds in each, at- 

 tached to the axis. Style, the length of the sterile filaments. 

 Stigma clavate. Capsnles lanceolate, hoary, with very light 

 gray, soft, short pubescence, very obscurely five-cornered, 

 five-celled, five-valved. Seeds, from two to four in each cell, 

 attached as in the germ, oval winged ; the wing nearly as 

 broad as the seed, and about three or four times its length. 



MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



AD AN SON I A. Schreb. gen. N. 1128. 



Calyx simple, five-cleft. Style long. Stigma with ten 

 rays. Capsule woody, ten-celled. Seeds many in a pulp. 



A. digitata. Willd. iii. 730. 



This tree is scarce in India, and probably not a native of 

 Asia, for hitherto only a few have been found of any great 

 size at Allahabad, Masulipatam, on the coast of Coromandel, 

 or in Ceylon. In the Botanic garden they blossom in May 

 and June, and the seed ripens during the cool season. 



General Hay Macdowell in a letter to Dr. R. dated Man- 

 tolle, (on the Island of Ceylon,) 2nd July, 1802, says : — 



" In my walk last night on the ruins of this once rich and 

 extensive city, called by the natives Maude or Maddoo- 

 ooltum, I chanced to observe a tree whose prodigious mag- 

 nitude induced me to measure it, and I found it to be nearly 

 fifty feet in circumference, above six feet from the ground, 

 the natives call it Peerig, and from what I have been able 

 to collect, it is not indigenous here. There are a great many 

 of them scattered about at this place, and it seems to me to be 

 the Adansonia" 



In the Botanic garden at Calcutta, are many trees, the 



