138 MONADELPHTA HEXANDRiA. Ccmarium. 



petiolaiy, sub-orbicular; pe/iofes beyond the stipules colum- 

 nar, below them channelled. 



Pimela nigra. Lour. Cochin Ch. 495. See Rmnph. Ainh. 

 ii. 155. t. 49. 



Canarium Pimela. Ayinals of Botany, i. p. 361. 



In its native soil, the Molucca Islands, it grows to be a 

 large handsome tree. In the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 

 where it has been for fourteen years, it is not more than ten 

 or twelve feet high, with a distinct, straight trunk, covered 

 with smooth, ash-coloured bark, the croicn or corona regular, 

 ample and very leafy. The iiJ/>?//es clearly mark this species. 

 They are opposite and inserted on the common petiole, near- 

 ly an inch above its base; when they fall, they leave two per- 

 manent, glandular marks behind. 



4. C. nigrnm. /?. 



Leaflets generally oblong, pointed, somewhat hairy. Sti- 

 pules scarcely any. Male flowers on axillary, compound ra- 

 cemes. 



Dulcamara nif/ra. Rvmpli. ./Jmh. ii. 162. t. 52 and 53. 



Small trees in the Botanic garden brought from Amboyna, 

 began in the month of May to produce male flowers, when 

 they were ten years old. 



5. C. strict urn. 



Leaves hairy, leaflets from nine to fifteen, petioled, sub-op- 

 posite, from ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, afterwards 

 serrulate-ciliate. Stipules subidate. 



A native of Tinevelly, from thence introduced into the Bo- 

 tanic garden at Calcutta, where the young trees from the 

 seed are twenty or twenty-five feet high, straight, and with- 

 out a single branch. The trunk tapers like a fishing-rod but 

 is stout, and covered with ash-coloured bark, while the ten- 

 der parts are densely clothed with ferruginous, short pubes- 

 cence. The leaves from three to four feet long, and the leaf- 



