Crolon. MONOECIA MONADELPIIIA. 683 



Male flowers, from fifteen to twenty Moolly, unconnected 

 stamens. Female without corol. 



Sans, Jay a pal a. 



Hind. Janial gata. 



Cadai avanacu, Rheed. Mai. ii. t. 33. 



Gianum Mohiccuni. Rnmph. Amb. iv. t. 42. 



It glows to be a small tree, from fifteen to twenty feet in 

 height, in the Company's Botanic garden at Calcutta, and in 

 flower most part of the year. 



Trunk a little crooked, as thick as a man's thigh. Bark 

 smooth, ash-coloured. Wood white and hard. Branches 

 rather thin. Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate-cordate, slight- 

 ly serrate, pretty smooth, from three to five inches long, and 

 from two to three broad. Racemes terminal, erect. Male 

 FLOWEus above and numerous. Female flowers always 

 single, rather longer, occupying the lower part of the raceme. 

 Male calyx five-parted. Petals five, oblong, very woolly on 

 the inside, and margin. Filaments from fifteen to twenty, 

 distinct, woolly towards the base. Female calyx as the male. 

 Corol none. Nectary, some small glands round the base of 

 the germ. 



The tree has a disagreeable smell, the taste of the leaves 

 is exceedingly nauseous and of long duration. Tamul Phy- 

 sicians say the seed of this tree purges efiectually and easily, 

 removing all obstructions in the bowels ; and that it cures all 

 venereal complaints, and bites of venomous animals. 



8. C. Halecum. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves approximate, long-petioled, round, 

 re-entering, cordate, entire, downy underneath, male panicles 

 axillary. Calyx three-toothed. Corol none. '^^ 



llalecus alba. Rumph. Amb. iii. /). 198. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



i). C. drupaceum. R. 



Shrubby, often scandent, every part scabrous with stellate ~~ 



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