696 MONOFxiA MONADEi.PHiA. Bradleitt. 



arilled, from one to three in each cell. Embryo erect and 

 furnished with a perisperm. 



1. B. multilocularis. Roxb, 



Arboreous. Leaves broad-lanceolate, entire, smooth. 

 Flowers axillary, both sorts peduncled. Capsules compress- 

 ed, umbilicate, from ten to fifteen-celled. 



Agyneja multilocularis. Willd. iv. 569. 



A small rairious tree, a native of Bengal, and in blossom 

 from April till October. Is nearly allied to Dr. Buchanan's 

 Agyneja coccinea. See Col. Symes' Embassy to Ava. 



TrMW^' tolerably erect, covered with pretty smooth, brown- 

 ish gray bark. Branches numerous, down to the ground, 

 spreading with bifarious, often drooping branchlets. Young 

 shoots smooth. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, obloug, en- 

 tire, smooth on both sides ; from two to three inches long. 

 Stipules subulate. Peduncles axillary, from one to three or 

 more together, short, one-flowered. Bractes axillary, nu- 

 merous, round the insertion of the male and female pedun- 

 cles. JIale and female flowers often in the same axill. 

 Male smaller and deeper yellow. Male calyx six-parted to 

 the base, three are exterior, and rather longer. Filaments 

 in the centre, forming a single cylindric receptacle with from 

 eight to twelve, linear grooved anthers adhering to it. Fe- 

 male calyx from six to twelve-leaved ; the inner series, or 

 alternate divisions rather smaller, all sub-cordate, entire, 

 smooth, and permanent. Stamina none. Germ depressed, 

 from ten to fifteen-lobed, united in a verticel, from ten to fif- 

 teen-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the inner an- 

 gle of the cell. Style none. Stigma fleshy, funnel-formed, 

 with its round fleshy margins marked with as many ribs as 

 there are cells in the germ. Capsule about an inch in dia- 

 meter, depressed, M'ith the apex and base concave, sides to- 

 rulose, smooth, from ten to fifteen-celled, composed of two 

 distinct tunics, opening round the base, and up the sides ; the 

 exterior one generally divides into as many segments, or 



