818 DiOECiA ENNEANDRiA. Tetrmithera, 



distinct tufts of hair upon the nerves on the underside. Pe- 

 tioles round, smooth, as long as the leaves. Panicles from 

 the naked woody parts of the stem, and large branches, droop- 

 ing beautifully. Bractes three-fold, one-flowered, small, 

 caducous. Male. Calyx two-leaved; leaflets opposite, oval. 

 Petals six; the three interior ones equal, oval. Stamens, in 

 the cejitre is a short thick column, supporting a great number 

 of anthers, in the form of a globe. Female. Calyx and 

 corol as in the male. The rest as in M. cordij'olium. The 

 female flowers have not been found. Berries as in the ge- 

 nus, about the size and colour of a ripe black cherry, and as 

 they are collected in very large, pendulous bunches, their 

 appearance is inviting, but their taste is most abominable. 



DIOECIA ENNEANDRIA. 



TETRANTHERA. (Tomex. Thunh.) 



Nat. ord. Lauri. Juss. 



Involucre four or five-leaved, few-flowered. Male. 

 Calyx one-leaved, entire, or from three to six-parted. Corol 

 none. JS'ectarial glands various. Anthers four-celled. Fe- 

 male. Germ superior, one-celled, one-seeded, superior. 

 Berries one-seeded. Embryo inverse, Avithout perisperm. 



1 . T. nitida. R. 



Leaves short-petioled, sub-cuneiform, obtuse, shining. 

 Racemes axillary, short. Involucre four-leaved, five-flowered. 

 Calyx from three to six-cleft. Nectary, in the female corol- 

 lets, alternately sagittate-cordate, and subulate. Male eimean- 

 drous. Berries oblong. 



Kmton7-jam is the vernacular name in the neighbourhood 

 of Silhet, where it is indigenous,and grows to be a useful timber 

 tree, of very great size, and in the more remote forests which 

 cover the Garrow hills, so large as to admit of being made into 



