694 MONOECIA MONADLLPHIA. Supilim. 



ed, with glands in the axills of the nerves on the under side, 

 and stipuled at the base. Male flowers octandrous, with a 

 bifid calyx. 



Teling. Badeki. 



A small tree, a native of moist vallies among the Circar 

 mountains. 



Trunk straight. Branches and branclilets nearly erect. 

 Bark pretty smooth. Leaves scattered, petioled, cordate, 

 acuminate, serrate, three-nerved, beloAV downy, with yellow 

 glands between the origin of the nerves, above pretty smooth, 

 from four to twelve inches long, and from three to eight 

 broad. Petioles from two to four inches long, round, smooth, 

 coloured. Stipules of the petioles subulate, caducous; those 

 of the leaves subulate, recurved and permanent. Female 

 racemes terminal, one or two. Male racemes several from 

 the germs over the last year's naked branchlets below the 

 leafy shoots, all erect and filiform, from two to six inches 

 long. 



jyote. In some specimens I have found the male and fe- 

 male flowers on the same raceme, the male above and the fe- 

 male below. Bractes in both three-fold ; the male ones many- 

 flowered ; the female ones one-flowered. Male calyx with 

 the segments kidney-formed, spreading. Corol none. Fi- 

 lamoits eight, short, tapering, spreading, united near the base 

 into a flat, saucer-like body. Anthers oval. Female calyx 

 below, six-parted ; segments narrow, acute. Corol none. 

 Germ ovate ; style short. Stigmas three, long, thread-form- 

 ed. Capsules three-celled, three-valved. Seed solitary. 



4. S. haccatum. R, 



Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, entire. Berries two- 

 seeded. 



Billa the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indigenous, 

 and grows to be a large and useful timber tree. Flowering 

 time March and April ; seed ripe in August. 



Branchlets crowded, ascending and particularly smooth. 



