140 MONADELPiiiA DODECANDRiA. Kleinkovea. 



Leaves alternate, unequally-pinnate, about twelve inches 

 long. Leaflets five or seven, rarely three, the pairs sub-op- 

 posite, ovate-oblong", entire, obtuse-pointed ; smooth and 

 glossy, from three to six inches long, and from one to two 

 broad. Petioles round and smooth. Panicles teniiiual, 

 and generally a smaller one in many of the exterior axills, 

 large, diffuse, and clothed with rust-coloured pubescence. 

 Bractes small, caducous, villous, like the rest of the panicle. 

 Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets oblong, concave. Petals five, 

 alternate M'ith the leaflets of the calyx, and larger, linearly- 

 lanceolar, yellow, entire, nothing like a bristle or hair from 

 any part, hence 1 conclude it cannot be Willdenow's C. 

 pinuatus. Filainents ten, united at ihe base, alternately as 

 long as the style, ^^nthers cordate. G^^?"?n superior, conical, 

 hairy, one celled, containing two ovula, attached a little to 

 one side of the bottom of the cell. Style hairy, of the length 

 of the five longest filaments. Stigma somewhat headed. 



2. pentandrus. R. 



Leaves pinnate ; leaflets from three to seven, oblong, ob- 

 tusely acuminate, polished. Panicle terminal. Floicers pen- 

 tandrous. Capsules polished, obliquely oblong, obtuse. 



Hind. Moolseree ; Toog, about Silhet, where the tree is in- 

 digenous ; blossoms during the hot season, and the seeds ripen 

 in September. 



MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. 



KLEINHOVEA. Schreb. gen. N. 827- 

 Ca(j/a; five-leaved. Coro/ five-petalled, irregular. Column 

 of the fructification, clavate. Staminijerous tube five-cleft, 

 each division supporting about three anthers. Germ supe- 

 rior, five-celled; cells few-seeded ; attachment interior. Cap- 

 sule swperhv, inflated, five celled. Seet^ solitary. Embryo 

 sub-erect, with a scanty perisperm. 



