826 DioEciA icosANDRiA. RoUlertt, 



tliat when he commanded at Chicacole there were in his gar- 

 den two female trees that bore abundantly; there was one 

 male tree standing between them ; he had often heard that 

 the female tree would not bear without the male, but did 

 not entirely credit the report. To satisfy himself he cut 

 down the male tree and there was no other near, he thinks 

 not M'ithin a mile or two; the consequence was, that from 

 that time neither of the female trees produced ripe fruit, ex- 

 cept the few that he thinks might have been formed before 

 he cut down the male tree. December 1793, some specimens 

 of a male tree with fruit on them, were shown me by Sir 

 William Jones, 1 have not seen the tree, and it is the only in- 

 stance that has come to my knowledge, where female or her- 

 maphrodite flowers Avere found on the male Papaya tree. 

 1C09. Since writing the last paragraph another instance of 

 the male tree producing fruit occurred in the Botanic garden, 

 1 am informed that the same is common at Malacca. 



DIOECIA ICOSANDRIA. 



ROTTLERA. R. 



Male. Ca/j/j: from two to five-parted. Coro/ none. Fe- 

 male. Crt/?/x from four to five-cleft. Carol none. Germ 

 superior, from two to four-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attach- 

 ment interior. Capsvles from two to four-coccous. Embryo 

 inverse and furnished with a perisperm. 



1, R. tetracocca. R, 



Young shoots ferruginous. Leaves long-petioled, cordate, 

 rarely lobate, acuminate, hoary underneath. Panicle ter- 

 minal. Capsules hoary, papillose, tctracoccous. 



Marleya is the vernacular name in the Silhet district, where 

 it grows to be a useful timber tree, of considerable size. 

 It flowers in April and May; and the seeds ripen in August. 



Young shoots densely clothed with stellate pubescence, 



