.M'ageia. nioiiciA tetranduia. 707 



ixvAwArons ;Jilaments more or less coalesced. Drupes ovate. 



Poolrmijeeva the Sanscrit name, Pootrci signifies a son 

 Hudjeeva life. Dr. Berry of Madras informs me, the nuts are 

 known, and sold in tbe bazars at that place by the very same 

 appellation; and observes that they are strung by parents, 

 and put round the necks of their children, to preserve them 

 in health. 



Pongolam. Rheed. Mai. vii. t. 59. 



PootrMujeeva, Pitanjya, Pootranjubkum, Pitanja, are some 

 of its numerous Asiatic synonyms. 



Teling. Kudra-juvi. 



In the carpology it is nearly allied toGsertner's Jfayeia, i. 

 19I.<. 39. 



A native of the various mountainous countries of Coro- 

 mandel and Ilindoosthan, where it grows to be a large tim- 

 ber tree with an erect straight trunk ; and a large spreading 

 shady head, composed of innumerable expanding branches 

 with bifarious branchlets. Flowering time March and April, 

 and the fruit ripens in January. The wood is white, close- 

 grained and very hard. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, bifarious, lanceolate-ob- 

 long, acutely serrulate, rather obtuse, with the base generally 

 oblique, smooth, shining-, waved a little round the margin, 

 from three to four inclies4ong and one or one and half broad. 

 Stipules minute, alternate, villous. Male. Flowers short- 

 peduncled, numerous, minute, yellow, collected into small 

 globular heads in the axills, sometimes on short, axillary, glo- 

 merate racemes. Calyx five-leaved, or deeply five-parted; 

 .se</men/s lanceolate, obtuse, or acute. Carol none. Filaments 

 one, two or three ; when one trifid; when two, one of them is 

 bifid. Anthers always three, two-lobed, two-celled. Female. 

 Racemes small, simple, from last year's ramuli; there are 

 also single peduncled flowers, scattered about the lower part 

 of the {)resent year's shoots, as in the lower axills thereof. 

 Flotcers larger than the male ones, green. Calyx as in 

 the male. Carol none. Stamina none. Germ oval, villous, 



