37* ENUSfERATIO!7 OF PLANf* 



riellefl. Peduncles axillary, solitary, stiort : 

 aments cyliiulrical, dense, short, both male and fe- 

 male. The fruit when ripe about the size of the- 

 first joint of the middle finger, of a deep red, ap- 

 proaching to black; insipidly sweet, and mucila- 

 ginous. Grows to a tall tree with spreading headj 

 found near the village of Nataana. 



MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. 



Quercus. — Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate-lance, 

 serrated, teeth distant and rigid, smooth and shin- 

 ing above, hoary, with a dense down beneath, one 

 nerved, from which arc fourteen or fifteen pairs of 

 parallel veins. The full grown acorns now on the 

 trees, consequently flower in the coldest time of 

 the year, and we may conclude from its situation 

 here, it would bear tint climate of Britain. The 

 thickest forests are in the neighbourhood ofJdzcaa^ 

 tiee; the trees rather low, but have the appearance 

 of age, though none exceeded in circumference 

 twelve feet, and fifty in height. The wood is of a 

 reddish brown, very hard, and for this property re- 

 fused by the natives for any purpose but firewood. 



Juirlans. — Three or four trees in the neighbourhood 

 of Nataana, the fruit yet small, covered \\\'i\\ a 

 dense hair. Leaves pinnated with a'n odd one ; 

 leaflets sessile, lance-oblong, (.ntire, smooth, the 

 lower pair least, each pair increasing in size u[>- 

 wards. Growing on the sides of the mountains in 

 a very stony soil. 



Qarpinus doubtful, — A low ill formed tree on the sides 

 of the mountains, between l^om and Belkate. 

 Leaves without order about the ends of the branches, 

 pinnated: leaflets about four pair, broad ovate, 

 very obtuse, entire, beneath downy : common 

 petiole columnar, downy, at its origin gibbous : 

 proper, very short, cylindrical, downy. Flowers 

 on long amentaceous spikes, crowded, but not im- 

 bricated, those bearing the female flower long- 

 i:it. Calyx of th« male flowers is furmed of six 

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