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Selections. 
[no. 4, NEW SERIES, 
brown. Calyx minute, ^vithfive shallow lobes, persistent. Petals 
five, concave, firm in texture, with minute pale glandular dots on 
the inner surface, twisted in aestivation. Stamens five, alternate 
Avith the petals, inserted into depressions of the dark green angular 
disc. Ovary three-celled, each cell with four ascending anatro- 
pal ovules. Style short. Sligma capitate, somewhat three-lobed. 
Capsule 1-4 inches long, oblong, bluntly *^triangular, three-valved, 
three celled. Seeds imbricated, winged, erect, exalbuminous. Wing 
very broad, oblong, truncate or blunt. Embryo orthotropal ; coty- 
ledons flat. 
In habit and general appearance this plant re^jembles the Celas- 
tracecB, though it would seem to difi'er almost much from mem- 
bers of that natural family as do the HippocrateacecSt from all the 
genera of which latter Order it difi'ers in having five stamens. 
The yellow bark is sold in the bazaars, and when pounded is 
used by the Cinghalese as a kind of cephalic snufi*, being mixed 
with ghee and introduced into the nostrils in order to relieve severe 
headache, by encouraging a copious secretion from the nose. ' 
The native name of the tree is Kohoon, which has suggested the 
generic name. 
Plate V. Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Stamen. 3. Ovary and disc cut 
longitudinally. 4. Transverse section of the same. 5. Small, imma- 
ture capsule. 6. Transverse section of the same. 7. 8. Seeds. 9. 
Branch and stipules : — all but Jig, 5 and 6 magnijied. — Ke^v Miscel. 
Vol V. p. 378. 
Aska Sugar Factory. 
My visit to Aska has enabled me to gain much information 
regarding the manufacture of sugar, while my tour through the 
country has admitted of my following up an enquiry I begun in 
Ilajahmundiy as to the profits from its cultivation. The result of 
my observations is a conviction that it is, to the interest of Govern- 
ment to encourage the growth of this article to the utmost, and if 
that is done I am confident that it will become the great crop of 
