S9Q PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ce'a$tril&. 



Sheelkoilthe vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indigenous and 

 grows to be oue o their largest timber trees. It blossoms in August, 

 and the seeds ripen in March. 



Young shoots straight, round, and smooth. — Leaves alternate, pe- 

 tioled, lanceolate, entire, acuminate, firm, and even glossy ; about six 

 inches long, and one and half or two broad. — Stipules small, 

 caducous. — Racemes axillary, single, or paired, simple, cyiindnc, 

 length of the leaves. — Flowers numerous, and over every | an of 

 the raceme, small, greenish yellow. — Bractes conical, one under 

 each pedicel. — Calyx rive-parted \ segments oblong.— Tetats five, 

 oblong, spreading. Nectary, a fleshy, five-lobed ring loi'md tie 

 base of the germ. — Filaments rive, rather longer than the e als. A. a 

 thers two-lobed. — Germ superior, round, with a liule lung white wool 

 on the apex, two-ceiled, with two ovula in each attached to the base 

 of the ceil. Styles two; slightly united at the base, recurved. Stig- 

 mas headed. — Capsules ovate-oblong, size of a small olive, smooth, 

 brown, one-celled, two valved. — Seeds generally two; when so lan- 

 ceolate, and flat on the inner side, aiilled Integuments smooth, 

 light chesnut-colour, pretty thick and may w,hr*e recent be divided 

 into two or three lamina; aril complete within half a line ot the 

 apex, thick and soft, colour a lively bright yellow. — Peri^petm con- 

 form to the seed, soft, white, — Embryo erect.— Cotyledons cordate* 

 ■^Radicle cylindric, as long as the cotyledons, inlerior. 



Additional species by N. W. 



12. C. rigida, Wall. 



Shrubby, erect, rigid. Branches rbund, flexuose, with leafy 

 spines. Leaves very tough, obovate-cuneate, sharply serrulate. Co* 

 vymbs small, scattered among the leaves. 



C. buxifolia, Hort. beng. 18. 



Introduced into the Hon. Company's botanic garden at Calcutta 

 from Tiavancore, by Dr. A. Berry, in 1811. Time of blossoming 

 the rainy season. In Dr. Heyne's hortus siccus specimsus are pre- 

 served without any specific naoie. 



