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ihi, f^BTT H^ ; Binhupoospuka, ?£"^*(;:, Chhurduruz, ^ <jd^ ;, 

 Ghwntala, ^insx 1 ^*' Glwntakhya, ^g : , Hwrsha, gf^^T'Sl'«Ti Vwsti- 

 rodliwna, ^ fellR ^ Grttnthzphwla, 3TT*Pfi«T;> Monwphda, aad all 

 the names of jfc^if or Cupid. 



Beng. Muyna. 



A small tree or large bush ; a native of Bengal and also of China, 

 I presume, as there are some plants in the Botanic Garden brought 

 from thence. Flowering time the beginning of the hot season ; fruit 

 ripe in three or four months afterwards. 



Trunk irregular, which with the branches is armed with strong 

 straight, opposite, or three-fold thorns. — Leaves opposite, and three- 

 fold, short-petioled, ovate-oblong, entire, smooth, from three to four 

 inches long. — Stipules opposite, and three-fold, within the leaves as in 

 Gardenia.^— Flowers axillary, fascicled on a common short peduncle, 

 with proper, longer pedicels, small, of a pale greenish-colour. — Calyx 

 five-toothed. — Corol one-petalled. Tube sub-globular; mouth sh.ut 

 with much long, white hair,* border generally five-parted, spreading. 

 Filaments five, very short, inserted into the mouth of the tube of 

 the corol. Anthers small, cordate.— Germ inferior, turbinate, four- or 

 five-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the axis a little above 

 the middle. Style so long as to elevate its large glandular four- or 

 five-Iobed stigma just above the anthers. — Berry or rather Drupe 

 round, turbinate, size of a cherry, smooth, when ripe yellow, succu- 

 lent, and edible. — Seeds four or five, obliquely oblong, inner edge 

 narrower and straight. Integuments two ; exterior a. hard, dark-co- 

 loured nut ; interior membranaceous. — Perisperm conform to the 

 seeds, amygdaline. — Embryo inverse, a little curved, Cotyledons 

 scarcely so long as the radicle, lanceolate- Radicle columnar, supe- 

 rior. 



Obs. The fruit is eaten by the natives. Its flowers come exceed- 

 ingly near to those of my Caulhium parviflorum, as does also the 

 whole habit of the plant. 



