Cknjsophyllum, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 315 



shorter than the stamens. — Ovary ovate, smooth. Style very short, 

 fleshy ; deeply and almost equally four-lobed. 



Obs. Not having seen the fruit 1 am unable to decide on the true 

 germs to which this tree belongs. It is however either an Ehretia 

 or a Beurreria. — N. W. 



CHRYSOPLIYLLUM, Schreb. gen. N.355. 



Calyx five. leaved. Corol campanulate, five- parted, (ten, Linn.) 

 Germ five-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attach nent interior. Bern/ su- 

 perior, rive-seeded (ten, JLvim. oue or ten, Gaert.) Embryo eiect, 

 and furnished with a penspenn. 



1. C acuminatum, R. 



Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, smooth. Flowers axillary. Fruit 

 globose, five-seeded. 



Puakaia is the vernacular name about Sj'lhet, where the tree is, 

 indigenous, and blossoms in April. The fruit ripens in October, and is 

 greedily eaten by the natives ; though to me the taste is by no means 

 agreeable ; the pulp being almost insipid, and though tolerably firm, 

 uncommonly clammy, adhering to the lips or knife, with great te- 

 nacity. 



A middling-sized tree, with numerous slender, smooth, round 

 branchlets. 



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

 polished on both sides, except while young, then clothed with fer- 

 ruginous down ; veins small, simple and parallel ; from three to four 

 inches long, and one and a quarter broad. — Peduncles axillary, se- 

 veral together, recurved, one-flowered. — Flowers minute, pale yel- 

 low. — Calyx five-leaved, leaflets oval.— Corol one-petalled. Tube 

 the length of the calvx, border five-parted, segments oval. — Fila- 

 ments five, inserted into the tube of the corol near the base. Anthers 

 in the mouth of the tube.-— Germ inferior, ovate, very hairy, five- 



