ff»r<M#* WENTANDHia, MONOUYNIA. S8J 



pulp glutinous, as in Myxa. Nut perforated at the apex, four-celled. 

 The iitaU Jiowers want the style entirely, but have the rudiment of a 

 germ. 



5. C. grandis, R. 



Leaves round-cordate, obtuse, entire, scabrous, sub-triple-nerved. 

 Panicles terminal, drooping. Flowers letrandrous. 



A large quick growing tree, native of Chittagong; in the Hon. 

 Company's botanic garden its leaves are often a foot long ; its im- 

 mensely large, dichotomous, veryramous panicle nearly as much; the- 

 fjalyx has an even surface and four-toothed mouth. 



Obs. by N. W. 



The trees were introduced into the Hon. Company's botanic gar- 

 den in 1810, and have since grown very large. One of the indivi- 

 duals measures, at present (1823) two feet ten inches in circumfer- 

 ence, at four feet above the ground. — It blossoms in the rainy sea- 

 son and ripens its fruit in March. 



The leaves are rounded or retuse at the base, their apex acute 

 or obtuse, the margins often remotely dentate, the nerves and rib 

 are much elevated on the under surface, the lowermost pair or two 

 of the former are opposiie ; giving the leaf an appearance of being 

 tripli-neived. Ramifications of the panicle many times dichotomous, 

 divaricate, these with the petiols and young leaves are covered with 

 ferruginous villosity. — The drupe is of a dirty yellowish colour, 

 smooth, slightly depressed at the apex, half an inch long, supported 

 by the enlarged, obscurely many-toothed, striated calyx, narrowing 

 towards the insertion of the peduncie, where it is concave, truncate, 

 with a prominent margip. Pulp very glutinous, traversed longi- 

 tudinally, especially towards the outer coat of the drupe by a num- 

 ber of milk-white vessels. Nut very hard and bony, four-cornered, 

 perforated, four-celled, two or three of the cells mostly aboitive. — 



