TETRAMBLES NUDIFLORA. (Nat. order Datiscese.) 



TETRAMELES. It. Srown.—GKS. CHAR. Flowers dioecious ; male flower, calyx-tube very short, lobes 4 ovate or oblong equal or un« 

 equal, petals 0, stamens 4 placed rouud the depressed disk, filaments elongate, anthers short didymous, cells dehiscing introrsely, rudiment of the ovary 

 or 4 angled. Female flower, calyx-tube slightly 4-angled, teeth 4 short, petals 0, staminodia 0, styles 4, subulate short, stigmas rather dilated truncate and 

 papillose on the inside, ovules inserted in several series on the 4 parietal placentas, capsule membranaceous subglobose 4-sulcate dehiscing at the apex 

 between the styles. An immense tree, leaves deciduous long petioled ovato or cordatorotundate acuminate unequally toothed or subentire, beneath 

 tomeutose or slightly hirsute, flowers small the male in many flowered panicles, the female in long racemes from the ends of the branches, when the tree 

 is quite destitute of leaves. — Anictoclea, Nimmo in Grah. Cat. Bomb. pi. 252. 



TETRAMELES NUDIFLORA. (R. Br.) A tree of most gigantic growth, and often furnished with very large buttresses, 

 leaves Ion" petioled cordate acuminate serrated, flowers small, male very crowded in panicles from the ends of the branches, female in 

 pendulous racemes. — Tetrameles Grahaoriana, Wight's Icones. tab. 1956. Anictoclea Grahamiana, Nimmo. 



This is one of the largest trees in the presidency, not uncommon throughout the western forests of the peninsula from Bombay down 10 

 Cape Comorin, and also in Ceylon ; it is very abundant about the foot of the Nilgiris on the western side, and in the dense forests in the plains 

 of &outh Canara, and is called Bolur in Canarese; it sheds its leaves early in January and flowers when, quite leafless in February. The timber 

 is said to be soft and worthless. I have not bzen able to represent the leaves in the plate, as 1 do not possess any. 



Analysis. 



1. Portion of a panicle of male flowers magnified. 



2. A male flower much magnified. 



3. The same open. 



4. Anthers, 



5. A female flower. 



6. Vertical section of the same, shewiug the ovules. 



7. Transverse section of the ovary, shewing the 4 parietal placentas. (All drawn from fresh specimens.) 



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