Bradleia. monoecia monadelphia. 697 



valves, as there are cells, the inner one is of the colour and 

 consistence of parchment, and divides into double the number 

 of portions, these drop off together, leaving the seeds in pairs, 

 in a circle round the large convex receptacle to which they 

 are attached, and separated by very thin, white partitions, 

 which wore united to the inflected margins of the inner tunic 

 of the capsule. Seeds two in each cell, obovate, flattened, 

 sharp on the inner edge, enveloped in a soft, whitish, pulpy 

 aril, M'hich is covered with an orange- coloured pellicle. In- 

 teguments, proper^ nuciform, rugose. Umbilicus an elevat- 

 ed point on the inner edge. Perisperm soft, of a pale azure 

 colour. Embryo straight, nearly as long and broad as the 

 perisperm. Cotyledons two, round-cordate. Radicle cylin- 

 dric, pointing directly to the umbilicus, viz. inferior. 



2. B. laneeolaria. R. 



Arboreous, smooth. Leaves short-petioled, lanceolar, ob- 

 tusely acuminate, glossy. Flowers axillary, the male ones 

 numerous, and long-peduncled, the female ones few and ses- 

 sile. Anthers from four to six, in a sessile head ; germ about 

 six-celled. Style lengthened. 



Angoot?', the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indi- 

 genous, and grows to be a large, useful timber tree ; the wood 

 being hard and durable is often employed by the natives in 

 constructing their habitations. It ought to be compared with 

 Cavanilles' Bradleia Philippica. See B. Philippensis. Willd. 

 iv. 592. 



Tender shoots glossy, in habit tending to erect and straight. 

 Leaves alternate, short-petioled, from narrow-lanceolar to 

 oblong, entire, firm and glossy, acuminate, from three to six 

 inches long, by from one to two broad. Stipules triangular, 

 permanent. Male flowers long-peduncled, and collect- 

 ed in a crowded fascicle in the lower axills, or from those of 

 last year, also mixed amongst the few sessile female flowers 

 in the exterior axills, colour of both sorts pale greenish yel- 

 low. Calyx in both <J and p six-leaved j the exterior three 



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