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spreading unequal leaves, the middle one many 

 times longer than the rest, one nerved, veiny. 

 Corol none. Filaments from seven to eleven, 

 scarcely evident, inserted within the leaves of the 

 calyx. Anthers oblong, four cornered, thick, 



hairy, erect.-- Female, Calyx one leaved, three 



parted, resembling a ternate leaf, with sessile leaf- 

 lets, the divisions unequal, the middle one much 

 the longest, oblong, rounded above, one nerved, 

 veined. The only appearance of corol, are four 

 oblong scales, seated on the germ, round the foot 

 of the style, spreading, equal. Germ globular, a 

 little pointed above, hairy. Style short, thick, cy- 

 lindrical: stigmas two, about the length of the 

 style, thick, slightly compressed, hairy. Pericarp, 

 capsule, globular, two-celled, hairy. This has not 

 been seen in its perfect state. 



MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 



PbiHs iceda. — Between Ghinouly and Sirinagur, seve- 

 ral mountains are seen covered with this species of 

 fir, the tallest appeared to be from sixty to seventy 

 feet in length ; one, which had fallen, measured 

 sixty-five feet, and in circumference seven feet and 

 a half The natives prefer it to most other wood, for 

 building, and many other uses, for the convenience 

 with which they work on it, with their bad tools. 

 It is also used for the purpose the trivial name im- 

 plies, and is the only light they employ in their 

 copper and lead mines. The means of transport- 

 ing this useful timber from the situations it is found 

 in, to the plains of Hindustan, appear too difficult: 

 and expensive, to offer any encouragement for 

 such an attempt. 



DIOECIA DIANDRIA. 



Salix. — Leaves alternate, petioled, lanced, acuniina- 

 ted, unequall}' serrated, smooth, white beneath. 

 Stipules lateral, semicordate, large, serrated, paired. 

 It flQweri in November, and in a considerable num- 



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