672 WONOECIA MONADELPHIA. PliyllauihlS. 



Teling. Userekee. 



A pretty large tree, found cultivated in most parts of In- 

 dia, and also wild in forests. Flowers during the beginning 

 of the hot season; fruit ripe in eight or nine months after. 



Tnmk generally crooked, when large as thick as a man's 

 body. Branches thinly scattered in every direction ; male 

 branches spreading and drooping. Bark ash-coloured, scab- 

 rous. Leaves alternate, spreading, bifarious, pinnate, flower- 

 bearing, from one to two feet long, and about one and a half 

 or two inches broad, leaflets very numerous, alternate, linear 

 obtuse, entire, smooth, about three-fourths of an inch long, 

 and one-eighth broad. Petioles striated, round. Stipules 

 small, withering. Flowers minute, greenish yellow. Male 

 FLOWERS very numerous in the axills of the lower leaflets, 

 and round the common petiole below the leaflets, peduncled. 

 Cabjx six-leaved. Filament single. Anthers from three to 

 five surrounding the upper part of the columnar filament. 

 Female flowers few, solitary, sessile, mixed Avith some 

 males in the most exterior axills that bear flowers. Calyx as 

 in the male. Nectary cup-formed, embracing half the germ, 

 border ragged, derm superior, ovate. Style scarcely any. 

 Stigmas three, two-cleft, segments a little two-cleft. Drupe 

 fleshy, globular, smooth, six-striated. J^ut obovate, obtuse- 

 ly triangular, three-celled. Seeds two in each cell. 



The wood of this tree is hard and durable particularly un- 

 der water. The bark is strongly astringent ; the natives em- 

 ploy it to cure diarrhoeas, and to tan leather. The fruit is at 

 all times full of exceedingly sharp juice; it is eaten raw by 

 the natives, although to an European, the taste is disagree- 

 ably acrid. They are pickled, and made into preserve with 

 sugar, and also baked in tarts; by these means they are more 

 reconcilable to our taste. 



23. P. longif alius. J acq. Hort. Schonb. ii. p, 36. t. 194. 



Arboreous. Leaflets ovate. Racemes drooping. Calyces 

 four-leaved. Male flowers tetrandrous. Drape with a four- 

 celled nut. 



