742 DiOECiA MONANDRiA. Paiidanus, 



negro can finish four, and sometimes five bags in the course of 

 the day. Thus the value of each bag may be computed by 

 the cost, or worth of the labour of nine negroes for one day. 

 Every proprietor of slaves can obtain, by letting them out to 

 daily labour, six Spanish Dollars, or twelve Sicca Rupees 

 per month; the value therefore of the labour of one man for 

 a day may be rated at six annas and one third, thus taking 

 the lowest number made, viz. thirty-six, the cost of each bag 

 will be about one anna and a half. This to me appears a 

 cheaper material than the common gunny bag of Bengal used 

 in the exportation of rice and other grain in Calcutta ; it 

 seems also better calculated to repel wet and resist the com- 

 mon inj uries of transportation from one place to another. No 

 difficulty would attend the cultivation of this plant in Ben- 

 gal, where one, or more species of this genus is indigenous. 

 This tree attains here the height of about fifteen feet, the stem 

 at half that heioht branchino- into several sub-erect arms ter- 

 minated by the thick foliage. It flowers in the month of May; 

 the fruit of the kind I here notice is when full grown about 

 five inches in diameter, the seed large, turbinate with an an- 

 gular apex. 



2. V.foetidus. Roxh. 



Partial racemes^ or ikyrscs of the male flower simple. 

 Germs distinct. Drupes spiiiuus pointed, with one-celled 

 nuts. 



Hind. Keur-kanta. 



Betig. Kea-kanta. 



Found in Bengal, growing m ild in uncultivated spots near 

 Calcutta. Flowering time the cold season ; the fruit ripens 

 during the hot months of May and June. 



1 never saw a plant with any thing like a stem, but al- 

 ways in the form of a thick impenetrable bush, of from five 

 to six feet high. Leaves as in P. odoratissimus, but smaller. 

 Male injloresccnce as in P. odoratissimus, only here the secon- 

 dary racemes, or thyrscs, arc simple, being only a (hick, ta- 



