442 FENTANDRIA MO"NOGYfflA. Harpullid. 



pcrior. Capsules two.celied. Seed solitary, arilled. Embryo with 

 incumbent cotyledons, and lateral radicle without a perispenri. 



1. H. cupanioides, R< 



Harpuf.i the vernacular name at Chitfagong. 



A small tree; a native of the hilly parts near Chitfagon'g, it flowers 

 in April; and the fruit ripens in Ju'y. 



Trunk straight. Branches few, and tending to be erect also; bark 

 ash-coloured ; young shoots smooth, — Leaves alternate, abiupi Ij pin- 

 nate, from twelve to eighteen inches long. Leaflets from four to six 

 pair, short-petiolate, from alternate to opposite, from ovate below to 

 lanceolar above ; all are entire, and smooth on both sides; apex con- 

 siderably pointed ; from three to six inches long, by one or two broad. 



— l'etwles round and smooth.— Panicles axillary, solitary,- erect, thin 

 of branches, and shorter than the leaves. — Flozeefs small pale yellow. 

 ■ — Bractes subulate. — Calyx inferior, five-leaved, permanent; leaflets 

 o\a. — Petals five, lanceoiate, obtuse, spreading, becoming recurved. 



— Filaments five, alternate with the petals, and much shorter. An- 

 thers oblong. — Germ ovate, hairy, somewhat two-lobed, two-celled, 

 with one pendulous ovulum in each attached to the upper end of the 

 partition. Style short. Stigma two-lobed ; lobes reflex, adnate.^— 

 Capsules pendulous, orbicular, two-lobed, considerably compressed, 

 villous, two-celled, two-valved, opening all round. Partition oppos- 

 ed to the valves. The whole very exactly resembling 'he capsule of 

 Gdonium cupanioides, Gaert. carp. ii. 271. /. 139.— Seed solitary, 

 semi-oval; tie inner side being straight, ihe exterior rounded, arilled. 

 Integument single, rather thin, smooth, chesnut colour. Aril deep 

 orange,i covering the whole seed from the base except the auex. — Pe- 

 risperm none. — Embryo green. Cotyledons two, conform to the seed, 

 incumbent, their line of separation being nearly through the middle 

 of the seed, which makes them equal. Radicle on the exterior or 

 convex side of the seed, apex rather acute, and turned up into a small 

 hollow in the uppermost cotyledons, so that it points to the apex of 



