PluillantliUS. MONOECIA MON VDELPHIA. G69 



notnnic garden af Calcutta by Captain Teniiant in 1802; 

 wlicie it blossoms the whole year, but rarely ripens its seed 

 in Beng^al. 



Trunk distinct, straight, and about as thick as a man's 

 wrist ; covered with rough, dark greenish, ash-coloured bark, 

 Branche<< numerous, spreading far; the smaller have their 

 extremities often drooping-, and covered with smoother bark 

 than the trunk. Height of the now five-year-old shrubs about 

 eight feet, and expanding much more. Leaves alternate, 

 pinnate, from four to six inches long. Leaflets from ten to 

 thirty pair, alternate, from oblong- elliptic, to lanceolate. Sti- 

 pufes thin at the base of the common petioles ; and in pairs at 

 the insertion of the leaflets. Flowers axillary, several male, 

 and generally one female, very small, reddish. Calt/x in 

 both of five oblong, concave leaflets. Jfectary in both five 

 separate glands, within and alternate with the leaflets of the 

 calyx. Male Jilament a single column, dividing into three, 

 four or five, each furnished with a two-lobed anther. Female 

 (jerni ovate, from three to five-celled, with two seeds in each, 

 attached to the top of the axis. Style scarcely any. Stigmas 

 from three to five, deeply two-cleft; segments long, taper, and 

 variously bent, but always spreading back over the germ. 

 Berries small, round, dark red, succulent, from three to five- 

 celled. Seeds two in each cell, but all seldom come to ma- 

 turity. Embryo inverse, curved and furnished with a peris- 

 perm. 



A stout handsome shrub, loaded with abundance of deli- 

 cately small, ever-green Ibliage. The flowers are too small 

 to add to its beauty, except when narrowly inspected. 



20. P. reclinatus. Roxh. 



Shrubby, scandent, with reclinate branchlets, and leaves. 

 Leaves pinnate, floriferous; leaflets many, alternate, oval-ob- 

 long, with a few male flowers in the lower axills, and one fe- 

 male in the exterior. Filament columnar. Capsule de- 

 pressedly turbinate. 



