444 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Neerija. 



of Gaertner and Aubert du Petit. Tliouars, humorously called Tina 

 by Dr. Schultes in s) sterna veget. v. p. xxxii. in imitation of Quis- 

 gualis of Rumphius, (not of Liuneus, as stated in that most valuable 

 work).— JN. W. 



NEERIJA, R. 



Calyx five-leaved. Carol five-petalled. Style simple. Berry 

 superior, one- or two-seeded. 



3. N. dichotoma, R. 



Telinga. Neerija. 



A middling-sized tree, a native of the mountains of Coromandel. 

 Flowers about the beginning of the hot season. 



Trunk erect. Bark rust-coloured, scabrous. Branches numerous, 

 spreading in every direction. Branchleis opposite, round and smooth. 

 ■ — Leaves opposite and alternate, peuolate, oval and oblong, senato- 

 creuate, smooth; about four inches long, and two broad ; texture 

 bard. — Petioles round, three-quarters of an inch long. — Panicles 

 axillary, globular, thin, throughout dichotomous, with the divisions 

 standing at right angles. — Peduncles three times the length of the 

 petibls, round, smooth. — Flowers small, yellow, not very numerous. 

 > — Calyx five-leaved; leafiets orbicular, unequal, caducous.— Petals 

 five, oblong, spreading. — Nectary a large, fleshy, pentagonal ring 

 surrounding the base of the germ, into its angles the filaments are in- 

 serted — Filaments five, shorter than the petals, spreading. — Anthers, 

 tvvo-lobtd. — Germ superior, conical. Style shorter than the sta- 

 mens, thick. Stigma simple. — Berry oblong, succulent, red, smooth, 

 one-celled.- — Seeds one, or two. 



Is nearly allied to Elaodendrum glaucum in habit, but in that the 

 drupe with a single, very thick, haid nut will alone be sufficient to 

 distinguish them. 



