424 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNlA.' CedreUt. 



This most elegant, large timber tree is now found common in 

 Bengal; probably brought thither originally from the mountainous parts 

 of the Northern, and North East frontier. Leaves deciduous dur- 

 ing the co'd season, appearing again with the flowers in February. 

 Seed ripe in May and June. 



Trunk erect, growing to a great size and height, though 1 have 

 only seen small trees about Calcutta. Bark smooth, grey. Bran- 

 thes numerous, forming a large, beautiful, shady head. — Leaves al- 

 ternate, abruptly pinnate, drooping, from twelve to eighteen inches 

 long. Leaflets from six to twelve pairs, opposite or nearly so, short- 

 petiolated, obliquely lanceolate, the upper half broadest, and extend- 

 ing further down the petiolet than the lower; margins waved, smooth, 

 on botli sides, tapering to a long acute point; from two to six inches 

 long.— Petioles and peliolets round and smooth. — Stipules none.-— 

 Tanicles terminal, nearly as long as the leaves, pendulous, composed 

 of numerous, diverging, compound ramifications, smooth in every 

 part. — Bractes minute, deciduous. — Flowers very numerous, small, 

 ■white, and possessinga fragrancelike that of fresh honey, — Ca/yjr five- 

 parted. — Petals five, oblong, with the margins cdiate, the apices in- 

 curved over the stamens, and ketled on the iuside near the base. — Nec- 

 tary consisting of five, large, hairy, orange-coloured glands, sitting 

 round the lower half of the germ. — Filaments erect, inserted into the 

 centre of the five nectarial glands, rather shorter than the petals. An- 

 thers bent in towards the stigma. — Germ superior, oblong, internal 

 structure and contents as in the capsule. Style length of the corol. 

 Stigma large, flat, composed of five lobes. — Capsules oblong, rather 

 larger than a field bean, smooth, five-celled, five-valved ; valvelets 

 opening from the apex and falling off with the seeds.— Seeds numerous, 

 imbricated, both the ends and the exterior side membrane-winged, af« 

 fixed to the upper end of the sharp ridges of the receptacle, &c. ex« 

 actly as in Swietenia febrifuga,aud Mahogam ; See Gaert. carp, ii. 

 89- t. 96. — Perisperm in very small quantity, and more like a fleshy 

 interior integument — Embryo inverse. Cotyledons oval, three-nerv- 

 ed. Radicle obliquely superior. 



