426 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Aglaia? 



been brought to the botanic garden at Calcutta from Canton, under 

 the name Sam-yeip-lan, where it blossoms during the hot season, and 

 the early part of the rains in June and July, but has not yet shown 

 any tendency to produce fruit. 



Stem in our young, small plant trifling, but many branches and 

 branchlets rising and spreading in every direction. Bark of the 

 old ligneous parts olive grey ; cf the young shoots green, with their 

 very tender apices clothed with stellate ferruginous scales. — Leaves 

 alternate, petioled, ternate and unequally pinnate. — Leaflets rarely 

 more than five, the pairs opposite, and much smaller than the ter- 

 minal one, all oblong, but tapering most toward the base, smooth, 

 deep green, entire, obtuse ; from an inch and a half to four inches 

 long, and from half an inch to two inches broad. — Petiols some- 

 what winged, and channelled. — Panicles, sometimes only racemes, 

 axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves. — Flowers minute, yellow, 

 faintly fragrant. — Bractes ovate, one embracing the insertion of each 

 pedicel. — Calyx flat, five-tootlied; teeth semilunar. — Petals five, 

 oval, concave, at all times pressing on the nectary, smooth, much 

 longer than the calyx. Nectary sub-globular, mouth contracted, 

 and slightly five-toothed. — Filaments scarcely any. Anthers five, 

 cordate, attachecf to the nectary near its base on the inside. — Germ 

 superior, oblong, hairy, one-celled, with one or two seeds, which 

 are attached to the top of,the cell. Style none. Stigma large, co* 

 meal. 



Obs. by N. W. 



The following judicious observation on this charming shrub is ex- 

 tracted from my dear departed friend Jack's second botanical paper 

 contained in Malayan Misc. i. 33. 



" The Camunium sinense of Rumph, v. t. 18.y. 1, which is com- 

 mon y met with in gardens in all the Malay Islands, is quite a distinct 

 genus from the other two Camuniums, and has been described by 

 Loureiro, in Fl. Cochinch. i, p. 773, under the name of Aglaia odorata. 

 It has a five-parted inferior calyx, and five-petalled corolla. The 



