Clufjtia, WONOECIA GVNANDRIA. 729 



A large tree of quick growth ; a native of various parts of 

 India. Flowering- time the close of the winter, the seed ri- 

 pens in May and June. 



Trunk erect; hark smooth, of a dark olive colour. 

 Branches numerous, forming- an extensive, close, shady, ovate 

 head. BranclUeis frequently drooping much. Leaves alter- 

 nate, petiolcd, ternate. Leaflets pelioletted, oblong, with long, 

 sharp, taper points, serrate, smooth on both sides, from four to 

 six inches long. Petioles round. Petiolets channelled. Sli- 

 pnles of the petioles membranaceous, caducous ; those of the 

 petiolets minute, filiform, caducous, leaving a black gland- 

 like speck behind. Panicles axillary, or a little above, about 

 as long as the leaves, those of the male drooping, those of the 

 female when dioecous, sub-erect. Male flowers sometimes 

 on a separate tree, sometunes on the same, numerous, small, 

 before expansion vertically compressed and five-lobed, of a 

 pale greenish yellow colour. Ca/v/x five-leaved ; leaflets near- 

 ly round, concave, expanding. Carol none. JVectary none. 

 Filaments five, opposite, shorter than the leaflets of the 

 calyx, inserted into the abortive style a little below its ten- 

 rayed peltate crown. Anthers two. Germ none. Style 

 short, thick. Stir/nia peltate, ten-rayed. Female flowers 

 whether on the same, or on a different tree, solitary, short-pe- 

 dicelled, with a lanceolate bracfc beneath each. Calyx five- 

 leaved. Corol none. JVcctari/ or nectarial f/latuls five, 

 roundish, sub-sessile, within the leaflets of the calyx, much 

 like fertile anthers. Germ superior, round, three-celled, with 

 two ovula in each, attached to the upper end of the axis. 

 Styles three, recurved, undivided. Stigma simple. Cap- 

 sule more like a berry on the outside, of the size of a small 

 cherry, round, smooth, three-celled, with one or two seeds in 

 each. Embryo curved, inverse, amply furnished Avith a pe- 

 risperm. 



CLUYTIA. Schreb. gen, N. 152G. 

 Male calyx five-leaved. Corol fivc-pctallcd. Stamina 



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