558 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. FicilS, 



frorn the crown ol the root. Bark of the old woody parts 

 ash-coloured, of the young shoots smooth, and green, height 

 of the whole plant in ten years about ten feet, and spreading 

 to a great extent. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolate, 

 entire, smooth on both sides, from four to eight inches long, and 

 from one to one and a half broad. Stipules as in the genus, 

 smooth and membranaceous. Fruit petl uncled and collect- 

 ed in small fascicles, from six to eight together, on the stem 

 and larger woody branches near the base, of a short, broad, 

 turbinate shape, much compressed, with a very deep conca- 

 vity on the crown; in the bottom of which is the umbilicus, 

 shut up with many, fleshy imbricated scales, colour a dark 

 brown, with numerous, verrucose, white specks. Calyx ge- 

 nerally three small scales at the apex of the peduncle. Co- 

 rolleis all female, that were examined. 



49. F. glomerata. Willd. iv. 1148. Corom. pi. ii. JV. 123. 



Leaves broad-lanceolate, smooth. Fruit in bundles from 

 the trunk and large branches, peduncled, downy, turbinate. 



Oodooiuhur. Asiat. lies, iv. 309. 



Hind. Doomb?<r. 



Be)ig. Jj^gya (loomoor. 



Telincf. Bruma-mamadee. 



A large tree, generally found in and about villages, and 

 on the banks of rivers, and water courses, where the soil is 

 rich and moist. 



Trunk seldom straight, but thick and high. Branches thin, 

 and more erect, than in any of the former trees. Bark of a 

 rusty greenish colour, and scabrous. Leaces alternate, pe- 

 tioled, oblong, or broad-lanceolate, tapering equally towards 

 each end, entire, most slightly three-nerved, smooth on both 

 sides; the under side is paler and covered with most minute 

 green dots, from four to six inches long, and from two to two 

 and a half broad. Petioles chiumclled, from one to two 

 inches long. Stipules as in the other species. Racemes com- 

 pound, or panicled, issuing immediately from the trunk or 



