344 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ehetia. 



bark ; while young slightly villous, with short pellucid hairs. — heaves 

 alternate, coriaceous, rigid, spreading, from five to ten inches long, 

 ovate, acute at both ends, sometimes rounded at the base, copious- 

 ly and unequally cuspidato-dentate, dark green, harsh, with sliori ve- 

 sicular hairs above ; pubescent and sottish underneath, with alternate, 

 obilque nerves, uniting in sub-marginal arches and reticulate veins. 

 ■ — Petiol pubescent and furrowed above. — Panicle terminal, pube- 

 scent, ramous. Pedicels racemose. Drupe globiuar, ovate, obscure- 

 ly four-furrowed, slightly dotted, of the size of a smail gooseberry, 

 terminated by the long bifid style, supported at the base by a five- 

 cleft calyx, with ciliate, lanceolate, spreading lacunae. Nuts two, se*» 

 jni-ovate, flat on the inside, convex and gibbous on tlie outside, two- 

 celled, two-seeded. Embryo cylindric, erect? cotyledons parallel. 



Obs. I have only seen the unripe fruit of this tree, the erect em- 

 bryo of which seems to point it out as belonging to Beurreria (see 

 Gaert. fil. carp. iii. 170. t. 212, and Brown's prodr. nov. boll. i. 497 s 

 — N. W. 



9. E. umbellulata, Wall. 



Arboreous, heaves ovate, sub-entire, smooth. Umbellets scat- 

 tered, round, small, pubescent. Corolla rotate, with refiexed lobes. 

 Style very short. 



A native of Sa'ihet, where it blossoms in March, 



Beng. Kanaka. 



A branchy tree. Branches covered with pale, ash«coloured, cal- 

 lous-dotted bark; smooth, as are all the other parts. — Leaves alter- 

 nate, ovate,. repand, slightly undulate, from three to five inches long, 

 generally with a retuse apex, perfectly smooth, acute at the base, 

 shining above, with capillary, alternate ner?e§ underneath, uniting in 

 sub-marginal, elegantly reticulate arches. — Petiol slender, half au 

 inch long. — Flowers all hermaphrodite, very small, white, fragrant, 

 crowded together in lateral, simple or corymbose, pubescent umbels. 

 Pedicels short. Calyx supported by au oval bracte ; lobes rouuded, 

 ciliate. Corolla sub-rotate, with recurved, ovate lacini^e, rather 



