766 DiOECiA TRiANDRiA. Excoccaria. 



]y inverse, pure white. Cotyledons round-cordate, three- 

 nerved. Plumula minute. Radicle oblong, pointing ob- 

 liquely up between the vertex and the stigma. 



All the young parts of this plant are covered with more or 

 less of soft, resinous, adhesive matter, which smells strongly 

 of turpentine. 



EXCOECARIA. Schreh. gen. N. 1498. 

 Male. Anient cylindric, imbricated with one-flowered 

 scales. Coro/ five-petal led. Female. Ament 8QA\y. Peri- 

 anth three-leaved. Cojo/ none. Styles three. Capsule tr'i- 

 coccous. 



1. E. Agallocha. Willd. iv.864. 



Leaves alternate, ovate-cordate, serrulate, smooth. Ament 

 axillary. 



Arbor excsecans. Rumph. A nib. ii. t. 79, 80. 



Geriaoftlie inhabitants of the Delta of the Ganges, where 

 it is very common, growing to the size of a small, crook- 

 ed, rather ill-looking, stunted tree. 



Leaves alternate, about the extremities of the brauchlets, 

 petioled, ovate and ovate-cordate, smooth on both sides, re- 

 motely and slightly serrate, pointed, with two glands at the 

 base circumscribed with a purple border, about two inches 

 long. Petioles about an inch long, smooth, channelled. Sti- 

 pules small, fine-pointed. Male calyx. AmentsSLxiWary, often 

 crowded, cylindric, while young imbricated with fine spiral 

 rows of one-flowered, reniform scales, which lengthen by 

 age, when the flowers become distinct, and at a small distance 

 from each other. Corol no other than five, small squamse 

 round the base of the filaments. Filaments three. Anthers 

 of two large lobes. Female calyx. ^ImeM^s solitary, axillary, 

 the lower half containing from two to four, or even six, ra- 

 ther remote, one-flowered scales, the remaining part imbri- 

 cated with numerous, small, neuter scales. Perianth, or corol 



