Briedelia. monoecia gynandria. 735 



tary as in the male. Pe/a/s lanceolar; the inner 7iectary 

 pitclier-sliaped, enveloping the germ ; its contracted mouth 

 five-toothed. Germ ovate, two-celled, with two ovula in 

 each, attached to the top of the partition. Styles two, short, 

 two-cleft. Stigmas simple. i>rM;?e superior, round, of the 

 size of a large pea, succulent, when ripe of a shining black, 

 two-celled. Nuts hemispherical, rugose, the exterior or con- 

 vex side, one-celled. Seed conform to the nut. Integument 

 single, thin. Perisperm conform to the seed, rather hard. 

 Embryo inverse. Cotyledons retuse. Radicle oblong, su- 

 perior. 



2. B. viontana, Willd. iv. p. 978. 



Leaves long obovato, entire, smooth. Flowers axillary, 

 sessile. Petals roundish, clawed. Berry two-celled. 



Cluytia montana. Roxb. Corom. pi. ii. N. 171. 



Teling. Pantenga. 



On the interior mountains it grows to be a tree, on the 

 lower lands it does not grow so large. 



Trunk erect, short and thick. Branches numerous, spread- 

 ing. Branchlets bifarious, twiggy. Leaves alternate, short- 

 petioled, bifarious, obovate, or wedge-formed, smooth, entire, 

 from two to three inches long, broad in proportion. Stipules 

 small, acute, withering. Flowers small, green, axillary, 

 crowded, sessile, the male and female mixed. Bractes 

 minute, numerous, withering. Male flowers exactly as in 

 Cluytia patula. Female calyx, corol and nectary as in Cluy- 

 tia patula. Germ superior, ovate, two-celled, with two ovula 

 in each, attached to the top of the partition. Styles two, 

 two-cleft. Stigmas simple. Berri/ globular, succulent, of the 

 size of a pea. Seeds two, oval, one side flat, the other convex. 



The wood of this tree like the two former is very hard and 

 of a reddish colour. 



3. B. spinosa. Willd. iv.p. 979. 



Arboreous. Leaves oblong-, entire, smooth. Flowers 



