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The fruit is said to be eaten in curries. I have seen only a single 

 specimen. 



B. lanceolata. Foliis lanceolatis suhoblongisve coriaceis subtus 

 lepidoto-incanis, paniculis axillaribus terminalibusque paucifloris 

 folio brevioribus. — Arbor ? Ramuli canescentes. Folia 4-6 poll, longa, 

 1-2 poll, lata, acuminata, basi obtusa, petiolo 2-3 lin. longo; novella 

 utrinque canescentia, adulta supra glabra et nitida, subtus squamis 

 minutis lepidotis oinnino obtecta, penninervia et basi obscure 3-nervia. 

 Paniculae in axillis superioribus 1-2-pollicares et nonnunquam ter- 

 minalis major, ramis tamen vix divaricatis. Calyces 2 lin. longi, uti 

 pedicelli lepidoti. Petala paulo longiora, oblonga, basi parum con- 

 tracta. Antherarum loculi ut in speciebus generibusque affinibus 

 oppositi, divaricati, demum confluentes. Ovarium 4-lobum (3-5- 

 lobum?). Carpella matura distincta, subglobosa, intus planiuscula, 

 tomento appresso incana, i poll, diametro. Seminum testa tenuis, en- 

 docarpio adhaerens. Albumen nullum. Cotyledones crasste, sub- 

 hemisphaericse, apice retusae. Radicula brevis, infera. 



Hab. Moolmein, Griffith, Parish. 

 1 have examined several specimens, both in flower and in fruit. 



Geewia, Linn. 



This the largest genus of OPiliacece, after deducting a considerable 

 number of untenable species described from insufficient specimens, 

 or reducible to slight varieties, will still be found to comprise about 

 60species, either published or deposited in our herbaria — all natives 

 of the tropical or subtropical regions of the Old World, two or three 

 extending northward of the tropic in Eastern Asia, and a few 

 southward in Africa or Australia. The greater number have a 3- 

 or 4-celled ovary, with 2 or 4 ovules in each cell, and a 2- to 4- 

 lobed drupe, and these were originally considered as essential 

 characters of the genus. Such species, therefore, as were occa- 

 sionally observed to have numerous ovules or a 2-celled ovary, or 

 a perfectly entire fruit, have been at different times proposed as 

 distinct genera under the names of Microcos and Vincentia (altered 

 by Steudel to Viticena), and another species has been separated by 

 Korthals under the name of Omphacarpus, on account of the 

 fibrous dry nature of the sarcocarp. All these peculiarities are, 

 however, now found to be connected with the more prevalent 

 forms by a chain of intermediate species, and these proposed 

 genera have been reunited with Grewia. It is probable that, on a 

 careful review of the whole genus, Microcos and Vincentia will 

 both of them constitute natural sections, the latter including the 

 South African as well aa the Madagascar species. The Mexican 



