Briedelia. monoecia gynandria. 737 



Sclierunam cottani. Rheed. Mai. ii. t. 10. 



Telinr/. Doonkibooia. 



A large, woody, climbing- species, common on banks of ri- 

 vers and water courses in the Circars. It flowers in Novem- 

 ber and December. 



Trunk scarcely any ; branches long, climbing, with their 

 extremities flower-bearing and pendulous. JSar/c ash-colour- 

 ed. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, bifarious, oval, entire, 

 downy underneath, various in size. Stipules cuneiform, as 

 long- as the petioles. Flowers small, of a yellowish green, 

 cither axillary, crowded, and sessile, or interrupted, leafy, ter- 

 minal, or axillary, generally male on one branch, and female 

 on another. Male flowers as in Cluytia patula, except that 

 in this species, the petals are not at their extremities. Fe- 

 male calyx and corol as in the male. JSTectary, double as 

 in Briedelia spinosa, and in every respect the same. Germ 

 superior, ovate, hid in the inner nectary, two-celled, with two 

 ovula in each, attached to the middle of the partition. Styles 

 two, two-cleft. Stiymas simple. Berry oblong, juicy, 

 smooth, of the size of a large field bean, Avhen ripe it is of a 

 rusty black colour. Seeds two. Embryo inverse and fur- 

 nished with a perisperm. 



5. B. lancecefolia. R. 



Monoecous. Leaves broad-lanceolar, obtuse, smooth, glau- 

 cous underneath. Flowers axillary, crowded, sessile. Pe- 

 tals roundish, dentate. Berries globular. 



A tree of considerable size and quick growth, a native of 

 Bengal. In the Botanic garden, they have attained to the 

 height of twenty feet in four years, thick and ramous in pro- 

 portion. They blossom at various times of the year, but 

 chiefly about the close of the rains, and the small, round, dark 

 purple berries ripen in the cool season. 



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