766 DioEciA TETRANDRiA. JSTagda, 



Sophee, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indigen- 

 ous, and grows to the size of a large bush. Flowering time 

 December and January, and the fruits ripen in May, when 

 they are pickled by the natives, and used as a condiment. 

 In its raw state, this fruit though inviting to the eye, is 

 too sour to be relished. Branchlets very ramous ; the tender 

 shoots considerably hairy. Leaves permanent, alternate, 

 approximate, round, every part of the apices of the branch- 

 lets short-petioled, lanceolar, entire and perfectly smooth ; 

 from three to six inches long, by about one broad. Stu 

 pules none. Female. Aments axillary, generally cylindric, 

 rarely more than an inch long, considerably villous, many- 

 flowered. Scales reniform-cord'ate, somewhat acuminate, 

 sprinkled on the back with small yellow, shining grains, one 

 or two-flowered, intermixed with many small fleshy scales 

 resembling a perianth. Germ minute, ovate, one-celled, con- 

 taining a single ovulum attached to the cell. Styles two, or 

 two-cleft. Drupe oval, the size of a prune. JSTut oblong, thick 

 and very hard, alittle flattened, the two edges rather extended 

 and somewhat sharp, densely clothed with q,n immense quan- 

 tity of fine white hair in pencilliform tufts. The pulp consists 

 of innumerable, closely impacted, but distinct, clavate, suc- 

 culent, yellow bodies. Seed ovate-oblong. Integument sin- 

 gle, membranaceous. Perisperm none. Embryo inverse. 

 Cotyledons conform to the seed, amygdaline. Radicle su- 

 perior. 



NAGEIA, GoETt. 

 Male calyx from four to five-leaved. Corol none. Female 

 calyx iiom three to five-leaved. CoroZ none. Germ three- 

 celled ; ce//s two-seeded ; attachment auTperior (axipendula.) 

 Styles two or three. Drupe one-seeded. Embryo inverse, 

 and furnished with a perisperm. 



N. Putranjiva. R. 



Leaves alternate, narrow-oblong, acutely serrulate. Flowers 



