343 Pentandria Monogynia. Tectona. 



celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the middle of the 

 axis. Style short. Stigma five-lobed. — Berries spherical, size of 

 a small crab-apple, smooth, when ripe yellow. Pulp in considera- 

 ble quantity, five-celled. — Seed solitary, attached to the axis by the 

 greater part of the length of the thin inner edge, smooth, polished, of a 

 shining brown colour. — Perisperm conform to the seed, yellowish. — 

 Embryo extended through the whole perisperm, erect. Cotyledons 

 obliquely ovate, thin, three-nerved. Radicle curved, sub-cyhndric, 

 inferior. 



TECTONA, Schreb. gen. N. 355. 



Calyx five. toothed, becoming inflated over the growing pericarp. 

 Corol one-petalled. Germ four-ceiled; cell one-seeded, attachment 

 central. Drupe superior, dry, hid in the calyx. Nut four-seeded. 

 Seed solitary. Embryo erect, without perisperm. 



1. T. grandis, Willd. sp> i. 1088. Roxb. Corom. 1. N. 6. 



Tekka, Rheed mat. iv. p. 57. t. 27. 



Jatus, Rumpk. amb. iii.p. 34. t. 18. 



Tttiug. Teek. 



Can. Jaadi. 



Beng. Sagoon, or Segoon. 



This most useful tree is a native of various parts of India, viz. 

 the mountainous parts of the Malabar and Coromaudel Coasts, of the 

 mountains bordering on the banks of the Godavwee above Raja- 

 mandiv", and of Pegu. Lord Cornwallis and Colonel Kyd have some, 

 time since begun to introduce it into Bengal, where it thrives well. 

 On this coast it flowers in June and July. The seeds ripen in Sep- 

 tember and October. In Bengal, the leaves are deciduous during 

 the cool season ; and the new foliage appears in May, a few weeks 

 before the flowers. 



Trunk erect, growing to an immense size. Bark ash-coloured 

 and scaly. Branches numerous, spreading ; young shoots four-sided, 



