746 DIOECIA MONANDRIA. CyCttS, 



free on all sides. Corolwovie. Filaments none. Anthers yter- 

 fectly distinct, numerous, entirely covering the under surface 

 of the scales of the strobile, one-celled, two-valved, opening 

 round the apex for the discharge of the pollen. Pistil nothing- 

 like one to be found. 



Female. In May 1804 a female plant blossomed at the 

 same time the above-mentioned three male trees were in flow- 

 er. The female tree is rather higher and more robust than the 

 laroest of the males, and its inflorescence differs but little from 

 that of revoluta, viz. a strobiliform cone crowning the stem 

 surrounded with a circle of leaves exactly like those of the 

 male. This strobile is composed of many exterior, barren, 

 villous, cuspidate scales called stipules in the male, imme- 

 diately within are the downy, compressed, clavate, spatulate, 

 two-edged spadices; on the sides, about the middle of each, 

 the naked, round, smooth, one-celled, one-sided germs are im- 

 mersed, generally two on each side, crowned with a minute 

 style, and a perforated, callous, margined stigma. Beyond 

 the germs the spadix becomes incurved, and of a dilated, 

 rhomb shape, with the exterior margins cut into several su- 

 bulate, straight segments, the middle one being much longer, 

 larger, and more villous that the rest. Drupe oval, of the size 

 of a small pullet's egg, somewhat flattened, smooth till they 

 become wrinkled by drying ; when ripe yellow, one-celled. 

 J^ut conform to the drupe, ligneous, one-celled, lined on the 

 inside with much brown, spongy matter, particularly about 

 the base. 



2. C. revoluta. Willd. iv. 844. 



Leaves pinnate, with short, armed petioles; leaflets ap- 

 proximate, from one to two hundred pairs, linear, with a spi- 

 nous point, and revolute margins. 



C. revoluta. Smith in Trans, of Linn. Sac. vi. 312. t. 29, 

 30 ; excellent for the female plant. 



The female of this charming species, is very common in 

 gardens about Calcutta, where it grows in about the space 



