34S PENTANJ)KiA monogynia. Sideroxyloti, 



inserted on the fissures of the corol, alternate with the stamina. Stigma 

 simple. Berry superior, five-seeded. Embryo erect. 



1. S. tomentosum, Willd. i. p. 1090. R. Corom. pi. 1. N. 28. 



Unarmed. Leaves alternate, oblong, waved, downy. Flozoers 

 axillary, fascicled. Berry with from one to five seeds. 



A small tree, a native of the tops of mountains chiefly. Flowering 

 during the hot season. 



Trunk erect. Bark ash-coloured. Branches erect, very numer- 

 ous. — Leaves alternate, short-peuoled, oval, a litt.e scalloped, when 

 full grown smooth; when young covered with much rust-coloured 

 down; from three to five inches long, and one and half bread. — ■ 

 Teduucles axillary, numerous, short, downy, bowing, undivided, one- 

 ilowered. — Flowers small, dull white. — Calyx below, five-leaved; 

 leaflets imbricated, downy, permanent. — Corol one-petaRed. Tube 

 short, inside downy, maigin simple, five-parted ; segments spieading, 

 half lanceolate, acute, waved. — 'Nectary leaflets five, alternate, with 

 the filaments, waved, length of the stamens.— Stamens five. — Germ 

 ovate, hid in the tube of the corol — Berry ovate, size of an olive.— 

 Seeds generally one or two, though there are the rudiments of five 

 lu the germ, 



2. S. grandifolium, Wall, 



Leaves obovale-eiliptic, tapering downwards, smooth. Flowers 

 globular, in numerous axillary and lateral fascicles. Lacinice of ths 

 corolla obtuse. Ovary densely bearded. 



Grows wild in the Silhet district, blossoming in April; from thence 

 communicated to me by the late Mr. Smith in 1815- 



Beng. Khali Jamera. Aoa. 



A large forest tree. Branches angular, tubercled from the fallen 

 3eaves, with ash-grey bark, Young branches as well as all other 

 parts perfectly smooth.— Leaves scattered, approximate towards the 

 ends of the branches, spreading, coriaceous, smooth, shining, of 

 fiq elliptic-obovate form, terminated by a short acumen, gradually 



