734 WONOECIA GYNANDRiA. Bricdelia, 



the calyx. Stamina five, inserted on the abortive style. Fe- 

 male calyx and corol as in the male. Germ superior, two- 

 celled ; cells two-seeded ; attachment superior. Styles two, 

 bifid. Berry, or drvpe two-seeded. Embryo inverse and fur- 

 nished with a perisperm. 



1. B. crenulata. Roxb, 



Leaves linear, oblong', scarcely crenulate, tomeutose un- 

 derneath. Floivers axillary, crowded, sessile. 



A laroe timber tree, a native of the mountainous countries 

 near the mouth of the river Megna, from thence sent by Ste- 

 phen Harris, Esq. to the Botanic garden, where after twelve 

 years, it blossomed in May and the seed ripened in October. 

 This will belong to that division of my Cluyt'ias, which Will- 

 denow, in his edition of the Species Plantarum of Linnceus. 

 vol.iv. p. 978, has very properly made a distinct genus, un- 

 der the name Briedelia. I do not, however, remember to have 

 found any of the flowers hermaphrodite, in any of the species. 



Trunk tolerably straight, in trees twelve or thirteen years 

 old, four feet above the earth, from two to three feet in cir- 

 cumference, covered with deeply cracked, ash-coloured bark. 

 Branches expanding ; youny shoots round and villous, while 

 the trees are young a few long sharp spines are found thinly 

 scattered over the trunk and large branches. Leaves alter- 

 nate, bifarious, short-petioled, linear-oblong, or elliptic, ob- 

 tuse, slightly crenulate, of a firm texture, smooth above, 

 downy underneath, with numerous, simple and parallel veins, 

 from two to four inches long, and about half that in breadth. 

 Stipules ensiform, caducous. Thorns, on our young trees, 

 a few long straight, simple ones are found on the trunk and 

 large branches. Floivers axillary, sessile, crowded, small, 

 pale yellow, the male ones on one tree, and the female ones 

 on another. Male calyx five-leaved, or to the base five-cleft; 

 leaflets ovate, acute. Petals oval, notched, long-clawed. 

 JVectary acetabuliform. Filaments inserted on the column, 

 below its bidentate apex. Female calyx and exterior nee- 



