Tctrantftern. dioecia enneandria. 821 



JVofe. Dr. Berry of Madras informs me that this is the tree 

 which Dr. Klein of Tranquebar named after him, ( Berri/a 

 Chinensis. WiUd. ed. sp. pi. ii. 840.) 



3. T. monopetahi. R. Corom. pi. ii. .AT. 148. 



Leaves oblong, downy underneath. Involucres (ive-leaved, 

 five to six-flowered. Calyx five-cleft. 



Beng. B?na Kookoor chita. 



Teling. Nara mamoodee. 



Tomex japonica. Thunh. Jap. 190. Willd. ii. 839. 



Kutmoreea, and Piipreea. Asiat. lies. vi. p. 377-8. 



Apetala and monopetala are both small, handsome, ever- 

 green trees; common on the coast of Coromandel, and Ben- 

 gal, flowering in May and June. 



4. T. quadriflora. R. 



Leaves laneeolar, smooth. Peduncles axillary, few, long 

 and distinct ; involucre four-leaved, four-flowered; corollets 

 enneandrous; crt/^/x six-parted. BerHes ovate-oblong. 



Sowaree, the vernacular name in the Silhet district, where it 

 is indio-enous in the extensive forests which skirt the Garrow 

 hills, and there grows to be a small, ramous tree ; blossom- 

 ing about the end of the cool season in February, and the seed 

 ripening during the rains. It differs from lancewfolia in the 

 umhellets being fewer, and long-ped uncled; in that they are 

 sub-sessile and crowded. Branches and hranchlets smooth, 

 straight, and spreading but little. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 laneeolar, entire, smooth on both sides, glaucous under- 

 neath ; from four to six inches long, by one or tAvo broad. 

 Petioles about an inch long, smooth, slightly channelled. 

 Male. Umhellets axillary, generally from six to eight in the 

 sameaxills, long-peduncled. Peduncles villous. Livobicre 

 four-leaved, four-flowered ; leaflets oval, concave, five-nerv- 

 ed, villous. Calyx from five to six-parted, six is the most 

 frequent ; segments oblong, alternate, rather larger, villous. 

 Corol none, except the calyx be so called. Filaments ge- 



