668 mOnoecia jionadelphia. Phyliunlhus. 



18. tenellns. Roxh. 



An erect, delicate, small shrub. Leaves pinnate ; leajleta 

 from eight to ten pairs, oval. Flowers axillary, peduncled ; 

 one female and several pentandrous male ones; in both a five- 

 leaved calyx, and five-scaled nectary. Capsule three-cell- 

 ed, six-valved, with two seeds in each cell. Introduced from 

 the Mauritius in 1802, by Captain Tennant. 



Trunk a single, straight, ligneous twig, of three and a half 

 feet in height, with a few still more delicate, erect branches, 

 from the whole plant, which is now five years old. Leaves 

 pinnate, alternately scattered round the stem and branches, 

 diverging from two to three inches long. Leaflets from six 

 to ten pair, alternate, oval, smooth, and entire ; about half an 

 inch long. Stipules tapering, acute, those of the common pe- 

 tiole three-fold, those of the leaflets two-fold. Flowers two- 

 fold, in the axills of the leaflets, generally one longer pedun- 

 cled female one, and several shorter peduncled male ones, 

 opening in succession, pale pink, exceeding minute ; particu- 

 larly the male ones. Male calyx of five, orbicular leaflets. 

 JSTectary of five, roundish scales, alternate with the leaflets of 

 the calyx. Filaments five, alternate with the nectarial scales, 

 and shorter than fhe calyx. Anthers oval. Female calyx, 

 leaflets five, oblong. JVectary as in the male. Capsule mi- 

 nute, oblate spherical, three-celled, six-valved. Seeds, two 

 in each cell. Ferisperm in considerable quantity ; pale, 

 fleshy. Embryo inverted, and curved, the two subulate co- 

 tyledons point to the lower angle, and the radicle to the apex 

 across the umbilicus. 



1.9. P. Kirganelia. Willd. iv. p. 587. 



Shrubby. Leaves pinnate, with from twelve to thirty pair 

 of alternate, oblong leaflets. F/oir^rs axillary, peduncled, 

 several monadelphous male, and one female flower toge- 

 ther, in both calyx five-leaved, and nectary of five glands. 

 Berries many-seeded. 



A native of the Mauritius, from thence introduced into the 



