666 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. PliyllantllUS. 



black. It is frequently employed for ornamental hedges in 

 gardens, for which end it is well chosen, as its thick, ever 

 green foliage, and constant succession of beautiful red berries, 

 gives it a pretty appearance. 



16. P. turhinatns. K'6n. Mss. 



Arboreous. Leaves bifarious; leaflets oval. Flowers 

 axillary, ped uncled, the male beyond the female. Calyx 

 six-toothed. Berry hid in the enlarged coloured calyx, six- 

 seeded. 



Parin Nirouri. Rheed. Mai v. t. 43. 



Teling. Dawadaree. 



This is a most beautiful species, a large tree growing upon 

 and amongst the mountains of Orissa. It flowers during the 

 hot season. 



Trunk erect. Bark rust-coloured. Branches spreading, 

 horizontal, numerous. Bianchlets bifarious. Leaves alter- 

 nate, bifarious, pinnate, flower-bearing, about six inches long. 

 Leaflets alternate, short-petioled, oval, smooth, entire, about 

 an inch long, and three quarters of an inch broad. Petioles 

 round, flexuose. Stipules of the common petiole cup-form- 

 ed, three-toothed, withering ; those of the leaflets two, lateral, 

 acute. Flowers leaflet-axillary, peduncled. Male flow- 

 ers below the female ones, occupying the lower axill, erect 

 in the flowering time. Calyx one-leaved, campanulate ; 

 mouth six-notched. Corol none. JVectary none. Filament 

 single, clubbed. Anthers generally three, though sometimes 

 more, oblong, aflixed by their backs to the club of the co- 

 lumnar filament. Female flowers above the male, occu- 

 pying the middle leaflets ; in the flowering time erect, after- 

 wards drooping. Calyx as in the male, increasing with the 

 germ, and acquiring a beautiful mixture of red and yellow. 

 Nectary none, except the flat crown of the germ be such. 

 Germ turbinate, truncate, and somewhat six-lobed. Style 

 short, three-parted. Stigmas two-cleft. Berry sitting in the 

 centre of the enlarged coloured calyx, of the size of a large 

 pea, three-celled ; cells two-seeded. 



