298 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



than the coral, with the rudiment of a fifth or sixth, 

 between two shorter than the rest. Anthers two- 

 cleft, incumbent at obtuse angles. 



Pi st. Germ oblong-conical. Style thread-form, as 

 long as the stamens. Stigma headed with two folds* 

 often closed by viscidity. 



Per. Capsule one-celled, two valved, twelve inches 

 long at a medium, and one inch thick; rounded* 

 four-sided, pointed, incurved, rather contorted, 

 diminished at both ends, dotted with ashy specks, 

 here and there slightly prominent, striated ; two 

 stripes broader, very dark, at right angles with the 

 valves. 



Qr.c. A series of hard, broadish, woody rings, closely 

 strung on two wirv central threads. 



Seeds numerous, forty '-eight on an average, three- 

 angled, inserted by one angle in cavities between 

 the rings of the receptacle, into which they are 

 closely pressed by parallel ribs in the four sides of 

 the capsule ; winged on the two other angles with 

 long subpellucid membranes, imbricated along the 

 sides of the receptacle. 



*Tree rather large. Stem scabrous. 



Branchlets cross-armed, yellowish green, speckled 

 with small white lines. Leaves feathered with an 

 odd one j two or three paired, petioled. Leaflets 

 opposite, egged, pointed, most entire, downy 

 on both sides, veined; older leaflets rcughish, 

 margined, netted and paler below, daggered. 

 Petlols tubercled, gibbous at the base; of ths 

 paired leaflets, very short; of the odd one, 



longer. 



