392 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIAJ Cdastrus. 



ends of the branchlets, and like them having a tendency to be verticil- 

 late, petioled, broad-lanceolate, acute, entire; margins wuxed, smooth, 

 upper surface polished; about six inches long, by two broad. — Pe- 

 tioles rounded on ihe under side, flattish above. — Stipules none. Pa- 

 nicles terminal, with alternate, spreading, umbellileious, simple rami- 

 fications. — Peduncles and pedicels round, and smooth. — B/cctes 

 lanceolate. — Calyx five-leaved. Leaflets ovate-oblong, slightly ci- 

 liate. — Petals rive, alternate with, and thiee times longer than the 

 leaflets of the calyx, linear-oblong, entire, obtuse, at first spreading, 

 afterwaids recurved, with the edges revolute. — Germ ovate-oblong, 

 a little compiessed, two-, rarely, three-celled. Style erect, peima- 

 Bent, Stigmas two-, rarely, three-lobed, about even with the au- 

 thers. — Capsules roundish, size of a large pea, dry, rugose, oue- 

 celled, two-valved, opening round the apex. — Seeds from one to six, 

 or even eight, attached to the centre of a ridge in the bottom of the 

 cell, which crosses the opening of the valves ; their shape varys ac- 

 cording to the number of seeds. Integument single, and while fresh 

 more like a thin, smooth, soft, moist, entire, scarlet aril, than a com- 

 mon skin. — Perisperm conform to the seed, cartilaginous. — Km- 

 brijo erect, minute, lodged in the base of the perisperm, rather be- 

 low the umbilicus. Cotyledons two, very small. Radicle inferior, 

 oval. 



Obs. by N. W. 



This is among the more common tree in Nipal where it grows to 

 the size of a Litchee tree, I have found it from the very entrance 

 to the hills, at Bechiako, to the valley and on the mountains surround- 

 ing it. 1 have also specimens collected by Kamroop about Shree- 

 uugur. The blossoms are produced from April to July, and the fruits 

 ripen from the beginning of August to the end of November. The 

 trunk is covered with ash-coloured, pretty even bark; the wood is of 

 a light-colour, and not used except for common purposes. 



If it were not for the many difficulties, under which this genus 

 already labours, I could augment the number of species by a good 



