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Gen. Cuan. Calyx 5-toothed: corolla none: involucre 8- 
toothed, deciduous: filaments long-exserted, pentadelphous above : 
anthers l-celled, echinate, aggregated: ovary 5-celled: cells 2-3- 
ovuled: style woolly: stigma capitate: capsule globose, echinate, 
5-valved, 5-celled: seeds 1-2 in each cell, furnished with an aril: 
testa fleshy. 
C. excensa. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Icon. vol. V. part I. p. 23. 
Syn. Durio ceylanicus, Gardn. in Calc. Jour. Vol. 8. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1761, 1762. 
Spec. Cuar. Large tree, nearly a hundred feet in height: 
leaves elliptic, bright green above, silvery beneath from numerous 
adpressed scales: flowers clustered on the naked branches: pedi- 
cels jointed at the base: involucre and calyx clothed with brown 
scales: fruit the size of a large orange, covered with hard prickles, 
dehiscent. 
Tyamally Hills and Malabar in dense forests. Flowering in Fe- 
bruary and March, and ripening its fruit in October and November. 
GENUS Vl. HERITIERA. 
Monzeia Monadelphia. Sex: Syst: 
. Deriv. Named after L’Heritier, the celebrated French Botanist. 
Gen. Cuar. Trees with alternate entire leaves, the under 
sides of which are covered with silvery scales : flowers panicled : 
calyx 5-toothed: stamens in the male flowers 5—10, with the fila-~ 
ments jointed into a tube: anthers sessile on the top of the tube: 
-in the bisexual flowers, anthers 10, sessile, 2 between each carpel : 
carpels 5, each with one style and a few ovules, at length becoming 
drupaceous, indehiscent, keeled and 1-seeded by abortion: albu- 
men none. ; 
(1) H.urrorauis. (dit) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 63.—Dec. prod. I. p. 484.—Roxb, 
fl, Ind, III. p. 142. : 
Syn. Balanopteris Tothila, Gaertn. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VI. t. 21.—Gaertn. IV. fr. IT. t. 99. 
Srrc. Cuan. Leaves oval, rounded at the base: panicles. axil- 
lary : flowers small, red. 
Peninsula. 
(2) H. minor. (Lam.) 
Ident. Dec. prod. I. p. 484.—Roxb. fl. Ind. IIL. p. 142, 
Syn. H, Fomes, Willd—Balanopteris minor, Gaertn, 
