Okder I. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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2J(j6 Leaves ovate oblong flat, Leaf-stalks with two glands 
23fi7 Leaves scattered lanceolate acute. Flowers corymbose terminal 
2368 Leaves lanceolate revolute. Peduncles tuberous above 
1:369 Leaves lanceolate stalked obtuse 
2370 Flowers always with the limb closed very sweet-scented 
2371 Leaves oblong acuminate flat at edge, Cor. white and yellow ,. , u- 
2372 Leaves oblong acute, margins flat veiny, Cor. tube red, throat yellow, limb white 
2373 Branches dichotomous. Leaves mucronate-acuminate. Cor. infundibuliform 
2374 Leaves rounded ovate acuminate at the base transversely striated. Flowers terminal corymbose 
2375 Leaves ovate oblong netted. Umbel stalked few-flowered, Flowers large yellow sweet (6. lutea.) 
2376 Leaves ovate lanceolate wavy. Corona 10-cleft : alternate segm. shorter obtuse 
2377 Leaves linear 
2378 Leaves ovate. Flowers lateral in clustered umbels 
2379 Leaves ovate. Peduncles few-flowered. Stamens included 
2380 Leaves lanceolate ovate. Branches divaricating 
2381 Leaves oval lanceolate, Stamens longer than tube of corolla 
2382 Stem smoothish. Leaves oval lanceolate the upper acuminate beneath a little hairy 
2383 Stem smooth. Leaves linear lanceolate acute at each end quite smooth 
2384 Leaves narrow lanceolate close erect pubescent. Stem obviously pubescent 
2385 Leaves ovate acute 
2386 Leaves lanceolate, Nerves transverse 
2387 Leaves lanceolate attenuate at each end veiny spotted. Cymes axillary branched 
2388 Leaves ovate scattered subsessile. Flowers terminal about 5 
2389 Leaves linear very long, Flowers subsolitary axillary. Fruit roundish , j • 
2390 Dichotomous, Leaves broad lanceolate. Corymbs terminal. Drupes obliquely cup-shaped gaping 
2391 Leaves obovate scabrous very large whitish beneath 
2392 The only species. A pretty stove annual 
2393 Prickly, Leaves lanceolate obtuse acute at base attenuate smooth 
2394 Leaves obovate lanceolate beneath silky. Peduncles axillary clustered 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
cies so called are found. Thevetia is named after Andrew Thevet, a French monk, who travelled in Brazil about 
1530. C. Ahouai has thick succulent leaves about three inches long, and near two broad, of a lucid green, 
smooth, and very full of a milky juice, as is every part of the shrub. The flowers are in loose bunches at the 
ends of the branches, and are succeeded by nuts, the kernels of which are a most deadly poison. The wood 
stinks abominably, and is not used even by the Indians for fuel. They put small stones into the empty nuts, 
string them, and fasten them about their legs when they dance. 
C. Manghas is a milky tree with broad lanceolate leaves a foot in length ; flowers in terminal racemes, and 
the drupe ovate, the size of a goose's egg, inclosing two seeds resembling two large chestnuts, poisonous and 
emet.c. 
C. Thevetia is an elegant shrub or small tree, with acuminate leaves, and large, specious, nodding, yellow, 
sweet-smelling flowers. The fruit is a green drupe, containing a nut with a single kernel in it. Cuttings of 
all the species strike very readily in sand under a hand-glass. 
421. Tectona. Altered by Linnsus from Tekka, its name in Malabar. This is a timber-tree of immense size 
and great durabihty, and is justly called the oak of the east. The trunk is erect, and the bark ash-colored ; 
the leaves are obovate, downy underneath, and on young trees from 12 to 24 inches long, and from 8 to 16 broad. 
The flowers are in panicles, small, white, and fragrant. The seeds are lens-shaped in 4-celled drupes. The 
tree abounds in the vast forests of Java and Ceylon, Malabar, Coromandel, &c., and especially in the empires 
of Birman and Pegu. The wood has, by long experience, been found to be the most useful in Asia. It is 
easily worked, and at the same time both strong and durable. It is considered superior to all others for ship- 
bu'lcUng. Calcutta and Madras draw all their supplies of wood for ship-building from the teak forests of Ava 
aiid Pegu. Some of the finest vessels that have ever arrived in the Thames have been of teak tree, built in 
-Bengal. The tree was introduced to the British possessions by Lord Cornwallis, and is now planted with a 
view to timber in the mountainous parts of Bengal. In our stoves it thrives in loam and peat, and rijiened 
^'"ioo'^* root freely in sand under a hand-glass. 
Caldasia. A pretty stove herbaceous plant, with handsome small blue flowers. It was named by Will- 
rtenow, after the MSS. of Baron Humboldt, in honor of Joseph Caldas, a meritorious Spanish botanist, residing 
**^"P^yan in South America. It may be propagated by cuttings. 
42.3. Btimelia. A name given by the Greeks to our common ash. Swartz applied the name to this West Indian 
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