834 DiOECiA POLYANDRiA. Flucourtia. 



2. F. Ramontchi. Willd.iv. 829. L'Herit. Stirp. 59. t. 30. 

 Shrubby, armed. Leaves oval, crenate. Racemes ter- 

 minal. 



A native of Madagascar, from the Isle of France it was 

 brought to the Botanic garden, where it grows but very 

 slowly, and has not yet flowered. Grafted on the otlier spe- 

 cies, natives of India, they take readily but very slowly. 



3. F. cataphracta. Willd. iv. 830. 



Arboreous, thorns terribly decompound on the trunk ; 

 branchlets unarmed. Leaves ovate, oblong, serrulate. Ra- 

 cemes axillary, few-flowered. 



Beng, Paniyala. 



This species I found in the Company's Botanic garden, 

 where it grows to be a pretty large tree; it was introduced 

 about three years ago from the eastern frontier. 



Trunk short, armed with innumerable, large, very ramous 

 thorns. Bark brown, pretty smooth. Branches numerous, 

 generally unarmed, except the lower parts of the largest 

 next the trunk, and straight shoots, of which there are often 

 many on them, while young they are cross-armed and simple. 

 Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, serrate, smooth, shin- 

 ing green on both sides, from two to three inches long. 

 Stipules none. Racemes small, from five to ten-flow- 

 ered, axillary, or from the germs of the old axills over the 

 naked branchlets. Bractes, a small, cordate one below each 

 pedicel. Male. Ca/ya? from four to five-parted, small. Co- 

 rol none. Filaments numerous, as long as the calyx, in- 

 serted into a nectarial-looking, glandular, convex recepta- 

 cle. Anthers small. Female flowers on a distinct tree. 

 Calyx from four to six-leaved, or split to the base ; leaflets 

 spreading. Carol none. JSTectai'y a glandular, lobate ring 

 girding the base of the germ. Germ superior, round. Style 

 short and thick. Stigma large, from four to six-parted, stel- 

 late. Berry of the size of a common plum, globular, smooth, 

 purple, succulent, from eight to twelve-seeded, ten is the 



