416 TENTANDltlA MONOGTNlA. Gouatlia. 



Gokwna, Thoka, SliMmbhoonath and as far as halfway up Sheopore, 

 on all which p aces I have found it in the forests, blossoming iu 

 May, and ripening its fruit in the rainy season ; it attains the size, which 

 Kaempfer ascribes to it, of a middling pear tree, with a trunk from 

 one to two feet thick. The wood is light, veined, gieyish white; 

 the bark cinnamon-coloured. A sprig in flower with the imper- 

 fectly ripe fruit is represented in the very valuable B >tan. Regist. vi. 

 500, under the name of Hovenia acerba, LmdJ. winch was after- 

 Maid- very properly corrected to H. dulcis, and the mistake of the 

 leaves havng been represented entire, pointed out. Hid vii. ad. 

 talc, suunotis. — N. W. 



PITTOSPORUM, Sckreb. gen. N- 379- 



Calyx five-leaved, deciduous. Petals five, germ superior, three. 

 celled, cells many-seeded, attachment interior. Capsule three celled, 

 three valved. Seeds many. Embryo centripetal, and furnished with 

 a perisperm. 



IP. Tjbira,R. 



Leaves sub-verticilled, obovate, cuneate, entire, and lucid, apex 

 circular. 



Tobira, Kaempf. amoenit. 796. tab. 797- 



From China this pretty shrub has been introduced into the botanic 

 garden at Calcutta, 



GO CAN LA, Schreb. gen. N. 1592. 



Calyx five-parted. Corol five-petalled. Germ three-celled, sunk 

 in the saucer-shaped, five-horned nectary ; cells one^-seeded, attach- 

 ment inferior. Capsule inferior, three-celled, with a single seed in 

 each. Embryo erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 



