Aglaia? FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA." 413 



seems to indicate a drupaceous berry. It is smooth, fleshy, of an obovate 

 figure, about as large as a cherry, five-furrowed, obscurely flve-lobed, 

 retuse at the apex and marked with the rudiment of a minute, sessile, 

 stellate stigma ; basecuneate, supported by the almost unaltered calyx ; 

 five-celled, five-seeded. Seed oblong, attached to the middle of the 

 axis, completely enveloped in a fleshy arillus. — The external integu- 

 ment brown, very thick becoming perhaps bony, smooth and shining* 

 marked on the inner side, or that opposite the axis of the fruit, with 

 a sharp, longitudinal raphe, running from one extremity of the seed 

 to the other.— Inner integument soft, becoming probably membra- 

 nous. There seems to be no perisperm present ; the cotyledons are 

 large and fleshy and the radicle minute, and superior. 



Obs. This is an extremely beautiful tree, especially when in flower, 

 when it perfumes the air with ati exquisite fragrance, very like that of 

 A°laia odorata, but stronger. The wood is grey and not close-grain- 

 ed, nor is it used by the natives. The structure of the flowers differs 

 only from that of the above species in being decandrous; the fruit is 

 decidedly five-seeded. I have not had any opportunity of examining 

 the latter in a ripe state, and have therefore preferred placing the tree 

 here, to forming it into a new genus. Should it prove the latter, the 

 name which I originally gave to it, Sphaerosacme, might be adopted — 

 Roxburgh's Milnea is exceedingly like the above two plants, and 

 they ah belong to the family of Meliaceae. — N. W. 



3. A.? polystackya, Wall. 



Arboreous. Leaves pinnate, with a few pairs of oblong acuminate, 

 leaflets, with unequal base- Panicles axillary, smooth, shorter than 

 the leaves, consisting of numerous, long, simple racemes, of ovate, 

 eub-sessile, pentandrous flowers. 



A native of ISilhet and from thence communicated by Mr. De 

 Silva; biossoming duriug the rains. 



Beng. Bandoor-pala (JjtTpttsfl). 



A large forest tree. Branches round, thick, covered with small 

 callous dots, pubescent while young; all the tender parts covered 



