422 FENTANDKIA MONOGYNU* Dalrympl&h 



3. D. pomijera> R. 



Junki jam the vernacular name in St'lhet where it is a native, and 

 grows to be a large tree. Flowering in March and the seed ripen- 

 ing in September and October. 



Young shoots rather succulent, round, and perfectly smooth. — Leaves 

 opposite, unequally pinnate, some of them ternate; from ten to 

 twenty inches long. Leaflets three or four pair, and a terminal one, 

 the pairs opposite, all more or less petiulate, oblong, obtuseiy 

 serrate, acuminate, smooth, from five to six inches long, by two or 

 three broad. — Petioles and peiibhts round, aud smooth. — Panicles. 

 terminal, spreading much, more broad than long, primary brandies 

 decussate; partial ones alternate with the small yellowish white 

 fiowers. which are crowded round their extremities ; eveiy part 

 Smooth. — Braetes to the primary branches of the panicle opposite, 

 as in the Rubiacca. ; the rest solitary under each division and 

 sub-division. — Calyx inferior, five-leaved; leaflets rather unequal 

 and oval, — Petals five, oblorg, obtuse, spreading. Nectary aceta- 

 buliform. — Filaments five, alternate with the petals, and shorter 

 than they, inserted under the nectary. Anthers ovate. Germ 

 superior, three-lobed, indeed almost separable, three-celled; oxula 

 about eight in each cell, widely attached to the axis. Style length of 

 the germ, three-grooved. Stigma three-lobed- — Berry drupaceous, 

 having the appearance of a pome, of a roundish, three-lobed form, 

 very fleshy, when ripe yellow, and almost smooth, size of a large 

 medlar, three-celled.' — Seeds several in each cell, shape various, tha 

 most common loundish, reniiorm and considerably compressed, at- 

 tached to the partition. Integument single, thick and of great hardness, 

 in fact a perfect nut, exterior surface brown and highly polished. 

 Perisperm conform to the seed. — Embryo obliquely inferior. Coty. 

 iedons cordate, three-nerved. Radicle ova!, obliquely centrifugal, 



Obs. by N. }V> 

 I have found this tree, or one coining very near it, rather common 

 in Kipa', both in the great valley and in the mountains in that vici- 



