49 FLACOURTIA SEPIARIA. 
This bush answers well for fences, its thorns being so exceed- 
ingly strong and numerous. 
The berries, when ripe, are eaten by the natives, and are sold in 
the public markets. 
69. FLACOURTIA SAPIDA. 
Pedda Caanrew of the Telingas. 
Trunk irregular, but growing to the size of a small tree. 
Thorns as in the former, but fewer, and even wanting sometimes. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, serrated, smooth, from one to 
two inches long, and from three-fourths to an inch broad. 
Peduncle axillary, many-flower’d. 
Male Flowers as in the former. 
Female Flowers on a different tree. 
Calyx as in the former. 
Nectary a notch’d cup-like ring, surrounds the base of the germ. 
Styles four or five. 
Berry larger than in the former, and contains from six to twelve 
seeds, generally eight or ten. 
This tree is a native of the mountainous parts only; flowers 
most part of the year. 
The berries of this sort are also eaten, and are very palatable. 
70. EMBRYOPTERIS GLUTINIFERA. 
Embryopteris peregrina. 
Tumika of the Telingas. 
Mangostan-utan of the Malays. (Koenig) 
(Koenig) 
Garin. sem. 1. p. 145. tab. 29. 
Lym-appel of the Dutch. 
Trunk erect, straight, middle-sized. 
blackish rust-colour. 
Branches spreading, scatter’d ; young shoots smooth. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, two-faced, linear-oblong, pointed, 
smooth, firm, shining; when young, soft and red; six inches 
long by two broad. 
Stipule, single, sheathed, which bursts and falls, when the leaf be- 
gins to expand. 
MALE TREE. 
Penduncle axillary, single, bowing, bearing three, four, or more, 
small, white flowers. 
Bracte small, deciduous, below each pedicel. 
Filaments about twenty, at the point bifid. 
Anthers about forty, linear, erect. 
FEMALE TREE. 
Peduncle axillary, single, undivided, bearing one white flower, 
which is considerably larger than the male. 
Filaments one, two, three, or four, small, short. 
Anthers linear, small, sterile. 
Germ globular. 
Styles four, spreading. 
Stigmas branched, generally three-cleft. 
Berry, or rather apple, globular, size of a middle-sized apple, pulpy, 
rusty-yellow when ripe, and covered with a rust-colour’d 
farina. 
Bark pretty smooth, dark, 
EMBRYOPTERIS GLUTINIFERA. 50 
Seeds eight, which generally all ripen, immersed in pulp, kidney- 
form, straight, edge thin.* 
This is a middle-sized tree, growing in the moist, cool valleys, 
among the mountains in the Circars; it does not cast its leaves ; 
flowering time March and April. The wood of this tree is of an 
indifferent quality, and not much used. 
The ripe fruit is eaten by the natives, but I cannot say it is palat- 
able: it is strongly astringent. 
BORASSUS FLABELLIFORMIS. 
Linn. spec. plant. 1657. 
7h Tae 
Palmaira tree. 
Potoo-Taady is the Telinga name of the Male tree. 
Penty, or Nama-Taady, that of the Female. 
Root consists of innumerable long, tough, very strong fibres, about 
the thickness of the little finger. 
Trunk erect, generally from thirty to fifty feet high, though some- 
times it attains the height of one hundred feet; it is every- 
where marked with the hard, black cicatrices of the fallen 
leaves. } 
Fronds (leaves) surround the top of the tree, stip’d (petioled), round, 
composed of a great number of folded, linear-lanced divisions, 
which continue united about half way ; from two to five feet 
each way. 
Stipes stem-clasping, convex on the under side, and concave above, 
margins armed with a sharp, very hard, lacerated edge ; from 
two to four feet long. | 
MALE FLOWERS. 
Spathe universal, composed of many (ten to fourteen,) imbricated, 
smaller spathes, each vaginated at the base, but soon split- 
ting in a long concave, pointed, boat-like sheath, in sub- 
stance very strong and fibrous: when young, they are covered 
with a soft, downy, rust-colour’d substance } sometimes in the 
lower axills of the sheaths, there is a bundle of smaller sheaths, 
forming a spathe, like that now described, but without spadix. 
The superior four or seven sheaths embrace each ramification 
of the spadix, each ramification ending in two or three cylin- 
= Description by Dr. Koenig. 
Arbor grandis, fronde magna, globosa, Mangifere simillima. Truncus crassus, tectus cortice 
rugoso, atro-fusco. 
Folia alterna, bifaria, lineari-oblonga, acuta, integerrima, utrinque glabra, coviacea, rigida, 
spithamea.  Petzoli semiteretes, patentes, rigidi, semipollicares. 
Mascule arbores. 
Corymbi axillares, parvi, nutantes, 4-7-flori. 
Calyx monophyllus, urceolatus, coriaceus, flavicans, pilis raris albis adpressis tectus, ca- 
ducus, parvus. 
Corolla monopetala, urceolata, glabra, subcoriacea, albicans, calyce triplo longior, quadrifida : 
laciniz acute, patentes. : 
Filamenta numerosa (usque ad 56), brevia, alba. Anthere lineares, angulose, acute, erectz, 
corolla parum breviores. 
Feminee arbores. 
Flores plerumque solitarii.. Pedunculi crassiores, petiolis vix brevzores, supra basin cicatri- 
cula notati, ex bractea caduca. 
Calyx monophyllus, quadripartitus : laciniz erectzx, cordatz, acute, integerrime, coriacez, 
albicantes, persistentes, magne. 
Corolla major, profundius divisa, et minus urceolata, quam in mare. 
Germen elobosum, album, magnitudine pisi minoris, basi margine cinctum. Soli quatuor, 
patentes, pilosi, planiusculi, apice bifidi: laciniz dentate, germine breviores. 
Bacca globosa, parum depressa, tomento pulverulento rubro caduco tectum, magnitudine 
pomi vulgaris, s-sperma. Semina ovata, acuta, compressa. 
