692 MONOECIA MONAUliLPHIA. Sufium, 



celled ; cells one-seeded ; attachment superior. Style three- 

 cleft. Capsule bi-tricoccous. Embryo inverse, and furnish- 

 ed with a perispenn. 



1. S. Indicnm. Willd. iv. 572. 



Arboreous, branchlets often ending' in a spine. Leaves 

 alternate, broad-lanceolate, serrate, smooth. Male flowers 

 amentaceous, triandrous. Female ones solitary. Capsules 

 drupaceous. 



Beng. Hoorooa. 



Benoieiri. Rheed. Mai. iv. t. 61. 



A small tree, a native of the Delta of the Ganges* It flow- 

 ers at various seasons, and ripens its seed in from twelve to 

 eighteen months afterwards. The branches are numerous, 

 spreading- in every direction, and covered with smooth, ash- 

 coloured bark. The smaller short ones from the trunks, and 

 longer branches often ending in a strong sharp thorn. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, sub-pendulous, broad-lanceo- 

 late, serrate, smooth, of a deep shining green, from two to 

 four inches long, and broad in proportion. Stipules small, 

 caducous. Male flowers on terminal, cylindric aments. 

 Scales of the ament glandular, from three to four- flowered. 

 Calyx three-parted ; divisions sub-cordate, expanding. Co- 

 re/ none. Filaments longer than the calyx. Anthers ovate. 

 Female flowers at the base of the aments, often solitary. 

 Calyx from three to four-parted. Corol none. Germ above, 

 ovate. Styles three-cleft, divisions entire, and recurved. 

 Stigma enlarged. Capsule, or 7Uit globular, of the size of a 

 nutmeg, three-celled, six-valved, thick and exceedingly hard. 

 Seed solitary, affixed by the apex, oval, smooth. 



The juice of this tree is reckoned of a very poisonous na- 

 ture. The taste of the fruit is nauseous beyond description. 

 The seeds are used by the natives for the nefarious purpose 

 of intoxicating fish. 



