580 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



Nut oval, wrinkled, fkttish, and smooth at ong 



edge -, broad and two- furrowed at the other. 

 Flowers agreeably fragrant in the open air, but with 

 too strong a perfume to give pleasure in an apart- 

 ment. Since it must require the imagination of a 

 Burman to discover in them a resemblance to the 

 face of a man, or of an ape, the genus will, I hope, 

 be called Bacula ; by which name it is fre- 

 quently celebrated in the Pura'uas, and even placed 

 among the flowers of the Hindu paradise. Leaves 

 alternate, petioled, egg-oblong pointed, smooth. 

 The tree is very ornamental in parks and pleasure- 

 grounds* 

 37. As'o'ca : 

 Syn. Vanhda. 

 Cal. Perianth two - leaved, closely 'embracing the 



tube. 

 Cor. One-petaled. Tube long; cylindric, subin- 

 curved ; mouth encircled with a nectareous rim. 

 Border four-parted -, divisions, roundish. 

 St am. Filaments eight, long, coloured, inserted on 



the rim of the tube. Anthers kidney-shaped. 

 Fist. Germ above, oblong, flat. Style short, downy. 



Stigma bent, simple. 

 Per. Legume long, compressed at first, then protu- 

 berant with the swelling seeds ; incurved, strongly 

 veined and margined, sharp-pointed. 

 Seeds from two to eight, solid, large, many-shaped, 

 some oblong- roundish, some rhomboidal, some ra- 

 ther kidney-shaped, mostly thick, some flat. Leaves 

 egg-oblong -lanced, opposite, mostly five -paired, 



nerved j 



