every direction, dichotomous, the old ones with smooth olive 
coloured bark, the young ones green, round, and very smooth. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong and linear-oblong, entire, 
rather obtuse, of a firm texture, and polished on both sides ; 
veins parallel, diverging from the rib; length from four to 
eight inches, and from one to two broad. Petioles short, and _ 
united in a cup like a stipulary ring, which completely 
embraces the branchlets. All these parts very resinous. 
Racemes simple or compound, single or in pairs, in the 
extreme divisions of the branchlets, often as long as the 
leaves, polished, bright green. Flowers rather remote, long 
pedicelled, large white, scarcely fragrant. Bracts scarcely 
any. Calyx five parted, divisions short, semilunar, resmous. 
Corolla: tube long, gibbous near the base, much contracted 
above the stamina. Border of five, contorted, falcate seg- 
ments. Filaments short, inserted into the tube of the corol 
near the middle. Anthers sagittate. Germs two, closely 
united ; single, one-celled ; ovula numerous, attached to a 
two-lobed receptacle, on the inner side of the cell. Style 
two-thirds shorter than the tube of the corol, two-lobed. 
Stigma large, with a tapering bifid apex. Follicles : itis rare 
to find more than one of the two come to maturity, they are 
recurved with the back considerably concave, and very 
gibbous on the opposite side, where an elevated rib runs on 
each side of the suture, obtusely pointed, pretty smooth; 
when ripe of a bright orange colour, four or five inches long, 
and nearly two in diameter where thickest. Seeds numerous, 
of an irregular cuneate-oblong shape, with a deep longitu- 
dinal groove on one side; each enveloped in its own proper 
scarlet pulpy aril, and inserted along the side of the two 
margins of the suture by the small end of the aril, which is 
again attached by a broad umbilical cord to the centre of the 
longitudinal groove just mentioned. Perisperm in pretty 
large quantity, rather soft, and of a pale blueish white colour. 
Embryo nearly as long as the seed, with the two cordate 
cotyledons lodged near the thick end, and the long, almost 
straight, cylindric radicle directed to the small end where the 
aril was attached to the margin of the follicle. 
‘‘ An incomplete drawing and description of this tree was 
sent’ to the Hon. the Court of Directors under the nameo 
Cerbera dichotoma, and numbered 1541. At that time I had 
