820 BioECiA ENNEANDRTA. Tetratithera. 



Seng. Kookoor chha. 



This grows to be a middle sized tree, is a native of the 

 mountainous parts of the Circars. Flowers in June, when 

 the rains begin. 



Leaves scattered near the extremities of the branchlets, 

 petioled, oval, obtuse, smooth, above shining, from three 

 to five inches long, and from two to three broad. Petioles 

 about an inch long, round, smooth. Stipules none. Pedun- 

 cles solitary, axillary, as long as the petioles, three or four- 

 cleft.* Pedicels rather shorter than the peduncles, clubbed, 

 each supporting a small head or umbellet of minute flow- 

 ers. Bractes, a small one at the insertion of each pedicel. 

 Male. Involucre four-leaved, containing from eight to 

 twelve pedicelled corollets. Leaflets orbicular, concave, 

 caducous. Perianth none. Calyx campanulate; border 

 an exterior rim into which the stamina and nectarial glands 

 which surround the germ are inserted. Anthers four-lob- 

 ed, four-celled, with an oval lid to each cell. .Yectarial 

 glands from six to sixteen, short.pedicelled, oval, peltate, 

 alternate with the filaments, but three times sliorter. Germ 

 none, or small, and abortive. Female flowers on a se- 

 parate tree. Umhellets, involucre and calyx as in the 

 male. Stamens, the hairy filaments, but instead of anthers 

 there are oblong white glands. Nectarial glands as in the 

 male. Germ superior, globular, one-celled, containing one 

 ovulum attached to the top of the cell, as in the Lauri, to 

 which order it belongs. Style twice the length of the fila- 

 ments. Stigma torn. Berry globular, smooth, black when 

 ripe, and almost dry, one-celled, of the size of a pea, resting 

 on the clubbed pedicel, as on a cup like the acorn. Seed 

 one, globular. Embryo inverse, and without perisperm, as 

 in the Lauri. 



* In Bengal, where the tree is common, and its growth luxuriant, 

 the peduncles in the male tree, are numerous about the ends of the 

 branchlets, and frequently racemed, bearing from ten to fifteen 

 iiowers. 



