Tetranthcra. dioecia enneandria. 819 



canoes of full fifty feet in length, for wliicli purpose this tree is 

 preferred. Flowering- time July and August; the seed ripens 

 in April. 



Young shoots smooth and glossy. Leaves alternate, short- 

 petioled, of a lanceolar, cuneiform shape, obtuse, entire, firm 

 and glossy, from five to eight inches long, and two broad. Ra- 

 cemes axillary, and from the leafless branchlcts of the former 

 year, short, few-flowered. Pedicels alternate, each ending in a' 

 minute umbellet of five corollets, embraced by an involucre 

 of four, or rarely five, round, concave, smooth leaflets. Calyx 

 with a hairy campanulate base, and six-parted border. Coral 

 none. Male. Filaments generally longer than the calyx, 

 woolly, and disposed as in the Lauri. Nectarial rjlands 2\iev- 

 nate with the stamina, pedicelled, headed, and woolly. 

 Germ none. Female. JVectarial bodies alternately broad- 

 cordate-sagittate, and subulate, but very irregular in shape 

 and number. Stamina none. Germ superior, embraced by 

 the bell of the calyx, one-celled ; ovuluni single, attached to 

 the top of the cell. Style the length of the calyx. Stigma 

 simple. Berries oblong, smooth, succulent, of the size and 

 appearance of those of Lanrus Cinnamonum, one-celled. 

 Seed simple, long.ovate. Integuments two ; the exterior one 

 light brown, and of the texture of parchment; the inner one 

 membranaceous. Perisperm none. Embryo inverse, as in 

 the Lauri. 



2. T. apetala. Coram, pi. ii. A'. 1 47. 



Leaves from oval to lanceolate. Involucres four-leaved, 

 from eight to twelve-flowered. Calyx scarcely any. Stamens 

 about fourteen. 



Tomex sebijera. IVilld. ii. p. 840. 



Gaja-pippali. Asiat. lies, iv, p. 303. 



Laurus involucrata. Konig's 3Iss. and lietz. Obs. vi. p. 

 27. 



Sebifera glutinosa. Lonrier. Cochin, Ch. 783. 



Teling. Narra-alag?. 



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