684 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. CmtOH. 



pubescence. Leaves cordate-serrate, two pedicelled glands 

 under the base. Racemes terminal, with male flowers on 

 one, and female ones on another. Nut three-partible, parts 

 two-valved. 



A native of the country about Dacca. Flowers in March, 

 seed ripe in September. 



Trunk short, and ill defined. Branches many, in a bad 

 soil shorter; in a good soil and protected, long and scandentj 

 young parts rough with an immense quantity of short harsh 

 stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, cus- 

 pidate, unequally and grossly serrate, three-nerved, harsh 

 with stellate hairs, and having two yellow, pedicelled, sub- 

 cyathiform glands immediately under the base, from four to 

 six inches long, and three or four broad. Peifio/es round, about 

 an inch long, harsh. Stipules ensiform, sometimes pinnati- 

 fid. Racemes terminal, simple, generally in pairs, becoming 

 lateral by age, one bearing entirely male flowers, the other fe- 

 male, and sometimes a few male ones at the apex, every part 

 pubescent. Bractes subulate, one-flowered. Flowers small, 

 of a dull yellowish green colour. Male calyx deeply five- 

 cleft, rather shorter than the corol. Petals lanceolate, with 

 very woolly margins. Nectary five yellow glands, alternate 

 with the petals. Stamina numerous, as long* as the petals, in- 

 serted in a convex, woolly receptacle which occupies the 

 whole centre of the flower. Female calyx as the male. Corol 

 none. JVectary as in the male. Germ round, very hairy, 

 three-celled, with one seed in each cell, attached to the top of 

 the axis. Styles three, each divided near the base into two 

 long, filiform, hairy, variously contorted segments. Capsules 

 drupaceous, tricoccous, globose, scabrous, clothed with stel- 

 late pubescence, of the size of a large gooseberry. Cortex, 

 when dry dividing from the apex into six portions ; nut thick 

 and very hard, spontaneously three-partible, each portion 

 one-celled, two-valved. Seed or rather nnt solitary, oval. 

 Integuments two, the exterior one thick, of a bony hardness, 

 rugose, of a chesnut colour, with a little stellate pubescence 



