Tetranlhera. dioecia enneandria. S'Z) 



pules none. Male. Umbellets axillary, but chiefly under 

 the leaves from the old axils, crowded, short-peduncled, 

 but appearing in sessile heads, many being- crowded 

 together, small, of a dull yellow. Involucre four-leaved, 

 from four to five-flowered ; leaflets round, concave. Ca- 

 lyx or perianth proper one-leaved, six- parted, exactly as 

 in Lavrus. Filaments nine exterior, and simple, from the 

 base of the segments of the calyx, and three interior, or 

 rather inferior, from its tube ; these have the glands of 

 the Laitri ; all are hairy. Anthers four-celled. Germ 

 none. Female. f/mfeeZ/e^s as in the male. Berries oblong-, 

 of the size of a field bean, black, smooth, succulent, one-cell- 

 ed, seed solitary, conform to the berry. Perisperm one. 

 Embryo inverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed. Radicle 

 superior, and considerably within the apex of the cotyle- 

 dons. 



7. T. laurifolia. Jacq. Hort. Schoenh. up. 59. /. 113. 

 Leaves cuneate, obovatc, obtuse, smooth. 



Tomex Tetranthera. Wi.l/d. iv. 839. 

 A small tree, a native of Bengal. It blossoms in May and 

 June, and the seed ripens about the close of the rains. 



8. T.Jruticosa. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves lanceolar, glossy, and glaucous under- 

 neath. Racemes axillary, and lateral. Involucre four- 

 leaved, five-flowered ; corollets enneandrous, with a six-cleft 

 calyx. Berries oblate. 



Oaoa, the vernancular name in Silhet, where it is found. It 

 is an upright ramous shrub, of about six feet in height, grow- 

 ing in the forests, where it flowers in June and July, and the 

 berries ripen the ensuing cool season. 



Leaves alternate, sliort-petioled, lanceolar, firm, and glossy, 

 glaucous underneath ; from six to twelve inches long, by from 

 two to three broad. Male. Racemes axillary, and solitary, 

 or more numerous from the former year's branchlets below 



