5^'OTICED IN THE PRECEDING tOUtl. 377 



t)f Hindustan, and is an article of traffic, between 

 the inliabitants of this rano-e of mountains to the 

 eastward, and the natives of the \q\w countries. 



DIOECIA DODECANDRIA. 



In a shaded valley near Ghinouly, a tall, slender, 

 stra"'2,lin2: tree, now in flower, the fructification 

 too complicated for abbreviated description, or com- 

 parison with other genera, therefore tiie full cha- 

 racters are here given. Branches alternate, strag- 

 gling, fe\r- Leaves alternate, towards the extre- 

 mities of the branches, petioled, ovate, entire, 

 smooth above, slightly downy beneath, about nine 

 inches in length. Petioles very short, columnar. 

 The flowers are axillary, produced in a kind of 

 single umbell, three or more from the same axill. 

 Common peduncles cylindrical, about half an inch 

 in length, downy; partial, similar, a little shorter; 

 proper, still shorter, about two lines in length. 



Characters of the male flowers. Calyx universal in- 

 volucre, five-parted (perhaps five- leaved) : divi- 

 sions rounded, concave, ex|)anding ; partial, of 

 similar form, carrying six florets in its base; pro- 

 per perianth six-parted, divisions lance-ovate, hairy, 

 expanding, sometimes reflected. Corol none. Sta- 

 mens, filaments mostly thirteen, filiform, unequal 

 in length, hairy, inserted into the base of the calyx, 

 the seven shortest or interior series, furnished to- 

 wards the foot of each, with a pair of compressed 

 kidney shaped glands, inserted singly by a minute 

 thread into the sides of the fllament; the six ex- 

 terior or longest, simple. Anthers oblong, four- 

 celled, two of which are lateral, and two near the 

 apex in front, each furnished with a lid, \vhich ou 

 the exclusion of the pollen are forced up and shew 

 the cells distinct. 



Female — Calyx, universal and partial involucre as ii> 

 the male.: Proper perianth, five or six cleft, less 



.• hairv. 



