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to three inches long, and from one and a half to two broad — Pelicks 

 about one-third the length of the leaves. — Stipules none. — Panicles 

 terminal, and also lateral, globular, dichotomous. — Bractes uont — 

 Flowers numerous, small, white, a very large proportion of thetn are 

 sterile, and they always want the stale. — Calyx tubular, widening to- 

 wards the mouth and there torn as it were into thiee or five divisions, 

 smooth, not in the least striated. — Corol, divisions of the border re- 

 volute, — Style in the fertile flowers as in the genus, in the barren 

 flowers wanting. — Drupe globular, smooth, the size of a cherry, sit- 

 ting in the enlarged calyx, when ripe yellow, the pulp is almost trans- 

 parent, very tough and viscid. Nut cordate, at both ends bidentate 

 and perforated, rugose, somewhat four-sided, four-celled, but it 

 larely happens that all prove fertile. — Seeds solitary. 



The smell of the nut when cut, is heavy and disagreeable, the taste 

 of the kernels like that of fresh filberts. The fruits are not used 

 in this part of India, (the Northern Circars), for any medicinal pur- 

 pose. When ripe they are eaten by the natives, and also, most gree- 

 dily, by several sorts of birds, being of a sweetish taste. 



The wood is soft, and of little use except for fuel. It is reckoned 

 one of the best kinds for kindling fire by friction. 



Obs. by N. W. 



This is the only species of the genus which inhabits that part of 

 l^ipal which I have visited ; I found it growing wild at Bheernpedi, 

 in Mower in May.— N. W. 



3. C serrata, R. 



Arboreous, tender part3 hairy. Leaves ovate-cordate, serrate, 

 acuminate. Corymbs lateral. Flowers sub-octandrous ; with from 

 seven- to nine-cleft corol. 



A native of Travancore, from thence the seeds were sent by t>r. 

 A. Berry to the botanic garden at Calcutta, where the plants reared 

 ftom them blossomed in August, when lour years old. 



