Briedelia. MONOECfA gynandria. 733 



thoiioh when youno- there are the nidimeiits of two, round, 

 smooth, of the size of a pea. 



The bark, or outer crust of the capsule is reported to be 

 exceedinoly poisonous. The wood of the tree is of a red- 

 dish colour, exceedingly hard, and durable. 



5. C. patula. Willd. iv. 884. R. Corom. pi. ii. JV. 170. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, pointed, smooth, entire. Flowers 

 axillary, or on axillary spikes. Petals round, crenulate, 

 clawed. Capsules tricoccous. 



A much larger tree than collina, a native of moist valleys 

 amongst the Circar mountains. It floMers during the hot 

 season. 



Irunk straight, from fifteen to twenty feet to the branches. 

 Bark pretty smooth, dark-coloured, thin and hard. Branches 

 very numerous, spreading horizontally, and forming a large 

 shady head. Branchlets bifarious, twiggy. Leaves alter- 

 nate, short-petioled, bifarious, oblong, attenuated to a long, 

 slender point, entire, smooth, sliining, about three inches long, 

 by one and a half broad. Stipules small. Flowers nearly 

 sessile, male and female collected in little bundles in the 

 axills, sometimes on small axillary, interrupted spikes. Brac- 

 tes small, numerous, chaffy, surrounding the insertions of the 

 flowers. Male calyx as in the former species. Petals five, 

 orbicular, crenulate, many times smaller than the calyx, in- 

 serted by claws. Nectary saucer-shaped. Stamen<i as in the 

 former species. Female calyx and corol as in the male. 

 Nectary cup-formed, embracing only about a third of the 

 germ. Germ superior, ovate, hairy. Styles three, two-cleft. 

 Stigmas small. Capsule the size of a small cherry, three- 

 celled, three-valved. Seed solitary. 



The wood of this tree is of the colour of dried rose leaves, 

 also hard and durable. 



BRIEDELIA. Willd. 

 Male calyx five-parted. Corol five petalled, in!>:erted on 



