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Srrec. Cuan. Large tree: leaves cuneate-oblong, serrulated, 
glabrous: peduncles shorter than the petioles: petals obcordate, 
slightly united’ at the base: flowers white. 
Neilgherries, flowering in the rainy season. 
GENUS IV. SARAUJA. 
Polyandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Saraujo, a Portuguese Botanist. 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx 5-sepalled: petals united to their middle: 
styles 8-5: berry furrowed, filled with shining pulp, with as many 
cells as there are styles, many-seeded : seeds angular. 
(1) S. Roxsurenu. (Wail) 
Ident. Voigt’s Hort. Cale. p. 91. 
Syn. Ternstroemia serrata, Rowb, fl. Ind. II. p, 521. 
Spec. Cuar. Small tree: leaves lanceolate, serrated, acumi- 
nate: peduncles lateral, aggregate, trichotomous, 1-flowered on 
each of the ultimate divisions: petals nearly round cordate: style 
5-grooved : berries the size of a pea, smooth, 5-celled: seeds few 
in each cell, pulpy: flowers small, rose-coloured. 
Silhet, flowering in Aptil and May. 
GENUS V. COCHLOSPERMUM. 
Monadelphia Octandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Kochlo, to twist, and Sperma, a seed, alluding to 
the somewhat twisted seeds. 
Gen. Cuan. Sepals 5, oval-oblong, unequal, the 2 exterior 
smaller: petals 5, twisted in estivation: anthers linear-acuminate, 
attached by the base, and opening by a pore at the apex: styles 
United to the apex: capsules 3—5-celled, 3-5-valved: seeds numer= 
ous, covered with cotton: albumen fleshy. 
(1) C. eossyrpium. ( Dec.) 
Ident, W.&A. prod. I. p. 87.—Dec. prod. I. p. 527. 
Syn. Bombax gossypium, Linn. Roxb, fl. Ind. III. p. 169. 
Engrav. Hook. Bot. Mise. IT. Suppl. t.18.—Cav. Diss. V.t. 157. 
Spec. Cuar. Tree: sepals at length reflexed: petals emargi- 
nate, unequal-sided: leaves palmately 5-lobed: lobes acuminated, 
quite entire, tomentose beneath: flowers panicled, large, yellow 
with the peduncles jointed at the base. 
Travancore. Coromandel. Hurdwar. Flowering in March and 
April. This tree yields the gum called Kuteera, which in the 
North West provinces is substituted for Tragacanth. This genus 
has been removed by modern Botanists to the natural order 
Cistacee, 
