Morns. MONOECIA TETRANDRIA. 599 



G. M. mauritiana. Willd. iv. 371. 



Dioecous. Z-eaycs obovate oblong, entire. Aments cy\m- 

 tiric. 



Tropins cylindrica. Roxb. Mss. JV*. 1703. 



Reported to be a native of Madagascar. Dr. Anderson of 

 Madras received the plants from the Mauritius. In his gar- 

 den they thrive nell, and from thence seeds and cuttings were 

 procured for the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1799, where 

 they blossom and ripen their seed at various periods. 



Trunk of the young trees in Dr. Anderson's garden, 

 straight, and regularly clothed with spreading branches near- 

 ly to the base. Bark ash-coloured. Leaves alternate, short- 

 petioled, obovate-obloug, entire, without pubescence, but a 

 little scabrous, from two to three inches long by one or one 

 and half broad. Stipules smaW, chafty. jQments axillary, so- 

 litary, sub-cylindric ; the male oneson one tree and ihefemale 

 oneson another, the latter generally recurved. Male aments 

 half the length of the leaves. Calyx four-parted, divisions 

 cordate, with villous margins. Stamina as in the genus, with 

 double whole anthers. Pistillum, a four-winged rudiment 

 of one in the centre. Female aments nearly the size of the 

 male. Calyx four-leaved, enlarging with the germ into a 

 fleshy covering for the single seed, which is covered by a 

 crustaceous envelope. Germ superior, broad ovate, one-leav- 

 ed, one-celled, ovulum single, attached to one side of the cell 

 a little under its apex. Style or rather stigma two, subu- 

 late, villous on the inside, united at the base. 



7. M. paniculata. Roxb. 



Arboreous, dioecous. Leaves allernate, long-petioled, 

 cordate, serrate, hoary underneath. Panicles axillary. Fe- 

 male calyx urceolate, entire. Berries round, pellucid, white. 



Urt'icajriiticosa. Banks's Herbarium. 



Perlarius primus. Rumph. Amb. iv. /. 56. 



A native of the Moluccas, from thence the seed came 

 amongst the earth with the spice plants, to the Botanic gar- 



