523 pentandriA monogvniA. Cerbcra. 



Odaliam, Rhecd. maL i. 71. t. 3d. But Manghas lactescens, 

 Burnt. Z?yl. 150. t. 70. /'. 1. is without doubt a different species, 

 \vbsch Gaertner has considered to be C. Manghas, Linn. 



A pietty large tiee, a native of" sa't swamps near the shores of va- 

 rious parts of India, yet it thrives well in the sweet and comparative- 

 ly rich soil of the botanic garden at Calcutta, where the trees are 

 fully as large as the largest pear trees, and in flower and seed the 

 vho.e \ear. 



The wood is remarkably soft, spongy and white, the bark on the 

 voung, generally triclrotomous shoots polished, deep green. Leases 

 alternate, and crowded about the ends of the branchlets, short-i>etiol- 

 ed, lanceolar, firm and polished. Corymbs terminal. Flowers 

 laige, white and fragrant. Bractes and calycine segments imear 

 and revolute. Corol infundibuliforrn ; segments of the border sub- 

 triangularly falcate, in the bud imbricated. Stamina enclosed. 

 Germ two-lobed, each lobe with a groove on the outside and con- 

 taining two cells, with two ovula in each, attached to the partion. I 

 never saw more than one of the lobes come to maturity, and that 

 •with larely more than one seed, the other cell, proving abortive. 

 Tiie stvle is slender, and the stigma in this species is remarkably 

 large, conical, resting in a saueet-shaped receptacle, the circurhfer- 

 tuce fluted wnh ten grooves, and the apex two-cleft. Gartner's de- 

 scription and figures of the mature seed vessel and seed } are so good 

 as to render any thing further unnecessary. 



3 C mnculata, IV Hid. spec. ii. 1223. 



Leaves s>ub-verticilled, oblong, tapering most toward the base, 

 smooth, veined. Drupes acuminate. 



Ochrosia, Jusdeu, gen. plant. l6l. 



Found by Colonel Hardwick indigenous on the Island of Mau- 

 ritius, in seed in September. From his specimens the above defini- 

 tion is taken. 



