233 r-i^iNTANBRIA MONOGYNJA- J^acohotrys. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, 

 smooth, from two to six inches long.— Panicles terminal, axillary, 

 and lateial, numerous, small, crowded with small, abortive, ferru- 

 ginous, ramentaceous branchlets. — Flowers small, greenish-yellow. 

 — Bractes ferruginous, small, subulate.— Calyx five-parted, almost 

 five-leaved. — Corol; tube very small. Border of five orbicular, 

 veined segments. — Filaments five, short, inserted into the tube of the 

 corol. — Anthers two-lobed, broad-ovate. — The Germ may be called 

 superior, ovate, smooth, one-celled ; ovula numerous, on a sub-cy- 

 lindiic receptacle, rising from the base of the cell. — Style short. 

 Stigma two- or three-lobed. — Berries completely inferior, size of a 

 grain of black pepper, white, smooth, succulent, one-celled. Cell 

 formed by a white, pretty hard, but thin, nuciform integument— 

 Seeds several, minute, angular, black, pitted, attached to the tree, 

 central receptacle, as in the germ. Integuments uncertain, on ac- 

 count of the diminutive size of the seed — Perisperm soft, juicy, 

 dark-coloured. — Embryo sub-cylindric, transverse. 



3. B. nemoralis, Willd. spec. i. 992.* 



Shrubby. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, repand-dentate, smooth- 

 Macemes axillary, short, and crowded. 



Mwlmoof/ya is the vernacular name in Selhet, where it is indigen- 

 ous and grows to the size of a pretty large, very ramous, upright 

 shrub. It flowers in March, and the seeds ripen in May. 



Branches and branchlets numerous, nearly erect, round and 

 pretty smooth. — Bark of the old woody parts brown, of the youno- 

 shoots greeo. — Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate-oblong, margins 

 repand, senate-dentate, (for there is a mixture of the whole,) in some 

 acuminate, both sides smooth, texture firm, three or four inches 

 long, by two broad. — Racemes axillary, about twice the length 



* It Is very doubtful to me whether the shrub described here is Vahl's plant (S3nnb. i. 

 19 ; Maesa Baeobatrys, Syst. Veg. v. 226.)-! have specimens from Silhet with nearly ea- 

 tire leaves— N. W~. 



