of select Indian Flanls. 36 1 



Silhet. Flowers in the rainy season, and ripens its seed in the 

 cold season, about January. 

 Bang, (at Silhet) Ghorma. 



Trunk arboreous. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, ovate to broad 

 lanceolate, (sometimes unequal,) acuminate, entire, smooth, 

 shining; 4 — 6 inches long, 1^ — 3 broad. Petioles J inch; 

 round beneath, channelled on the upper edge. Racemes length 

 of the leaf, erect, simple, cylindric. Peduncles four-cornered, 

 slender, villous. Pedicels as long as the flowers. Flowers yel- 

 lowish-green, inodorous. Perianth cyathiform, six-toothed, de- 

 ciduous, leaving a small entire ring at the base of the fertilized 

 germ. Teeth subulate. Petals six, on the margin of the caly- 

 cine cup, ovate, villous. Filaments numerous (30 — 40) on the 

 margin of the calycine cup, capillary. Anthers round. Germ 

 above, roundish, villous. Style filiform, length of the stamina. 

 Stigma truncate. Drupe transversely oblong, juiceless at ma- 

 turity, size of an olive, dark-purple. Nut subreniform, con- 

 tracted in the middle; lobes subequal ; crustaceous. Seed con- 

 form to the nut, attached dorsally a little below the apex. In- 

 tegument single, chartaceous. Perisperm none. Embryo con- 

 form to the seed, inverse, yellowish-white. Cotyledons thick, 

 flat on the contiguous ends, and hemispherical on the outer; 

 amygdaloid. Radicle superior, very small, conical. 



Gaertner, who constituted the genus, saw neither flower nor 

 any other part of the plant besides the fruit : consequently, until 

 his Ceylonese plant has been further examined, it must remain 

 doubtful, as I apprehend, whether the species be distinct: and, 

 at all events, the specific character cannot be yet determined, as 

 but one species is fully described. 



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