59 BUGHANANIA ANGUSTIFOLIA. 
round the lower half of the germ, with ten grooves on the 
outside, corresponding with the filaments. yner 8, 4, or 5 
subulate bodies, like abortive germs, embrace one side of the 
real germ, within the exterior nectary. 
Filaments ten, inserted round the base of the exterior nectary, 
shorter than the petals. Anthers ovate, small. 
Germ superior, ovate, one-celled, and contains a single ovule, 
attached by a long curved cord to the bottom of the cell 
(base and vertex). Style short. 
Drupes nearly round, sides a little flattened, size of a gooseberry, 
Nut obliquely, 
and transversely oval, one-celled; when germination begins 
it falls into two equal, black, thick, very hard valves. 
Seed single, conform to the nut. 
Albumen none. 
Stigma simple. 
smooth, when ripe yellow, and succulent. 
Embryo subinverse. Cotyledons two, equal. Radicle conic, mar- 
ginal, pointing up to the vertex of the seed, in fact superior, 
263. INOCARPUS EDULIS. 
Linn. suppl. 239. 
Gajanus. Rumph. Amb. 1. p. 170. t. 65. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of the Molucca Islands, and from thence introduced 
into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, in 1798, where in ten years, 
the largest of them were about 25 and 30 feet high; blossom 
during the hot season ; and ripen their fruit in August and Sep- 
tember. 
; DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk straight. Bark smooth, greenish ash-colour. Branches spread- 
ing, with numerous, bifarious, flexuose, beautifully drooping 
branchlets. 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, permanent, oblong, 
emarginate, entire, both sides polished, and of a deep shining 
green colour; length from 6 to 12 inches, and about 3 or 4 
broad. 
Stipules minute, caducous. 
Spikes axillary, sessile, solitary or in pairs, greatly shorter than the 
leaves: in our Bengal plants smooth. 
Flowers numerous, small, very pale yellow, fragrant. 
Calyx bilabiate. 
Corol funnel-shaped. Border 5-cleft ; segments lanceolate. 
Filaments ten, in a double series, hid in the tube, and inserted into 
it. Anthers oval, those of the upper series even with the 
mouth of the tube of the corol. 
Germ superior, oval, one-celled, containing one ovule attached to 
the top of the cell, immediately under the stigma, for there 
is no style. 
Drupe obliquely-oval, size of a goose’s egg, a little compressed 
laterally, smooth, when ripe yellow, and of a tough, fibrous 
texture, one-celled, two-valved, opening round the margin 
into two equal portions. 
Nut solitary, thick, 2-valved, one-celled, and of a hard, tough 
fibrous consistence. 
Seed single, conform to the nut, and attached to it immediately 
INOCARPUS EDULIS. 60 
under the stigma. Integuments two ; the exterior brown, firmer, 
thicker, and beautifully marked with numerous, ramous veins ; 
inner membranaceous. 
Albumen none. 
Embryo inverse. Cotyledons two, conform to the seed, amygdaline. 
Plumula in seeds beginning to vegetate consists of several, 
imbricate scales, as in the figure. Radicle superior, cylindric, 
and lodged immediately within the umbilicus, under the 
stigma. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
The rapid growth of this very beautiful, ever-green tree, the 
elegant shape of its spreading, dense crown; and deep green 
foliage, renders it one of the most ornamental presents Bengal has 
got from the Molucca Islands. The kernel is certainly edible, but 
by no means palatable. As yet I can say nothing of the quality 
of the timber. 
BERRIA.* 
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corol 5-petalled. Germ superior, 3-celled; cells 
many-seeded: attachment interior. Capsule 3-valved, 3-celled, 
6-winged. Seeds a few in each cell. 
furnished with albumen. 
Embryo inverse, and 
264. BERRIA AMMONILLA. 
Ammonilla, of the Cingalese. 
Trincomally wood tree of the English. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of Ceylon, and one of their largest, and most useful 
timber trees ; much of the wood is annually exported from Trin- 
comally to the coast of Coromandel ; hence the English name, 
Trincomally wood. Some young trees in the Botanic Garden at 
Calcutta have straight trunks, covered with smooth dark brown 
bark. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Leaves scattered, petioled, cordate, sometimes slightly scalloped, 
5 or 7-nerved, acute, smooth on both sides, length from 4 to 
8 inches. 
Petioles rather shorter than the leaves, slender, round, smooth, 
and coloured. 
Stipules ensiform. 
Panicles terminal, and from the exterior axils, large, very ramous, 
bearing numerous, small, yellow flowers. 
Calyx one-leaved ; outside downy, splitting irregularly into three, 
four, or five segments ; permanent. 
Gorol. Petals five, spreading obliquely-oblong, double the length 
of the calyx, or more. 
* Named after Dr. Andrew Berry, of Madras ; an eminent physician and botanist, to 
whose abilities, and industry, the Botanic Garden at Calcutta is much indcbled. 
It appears to belong to Jussieu’s natural order Malvacee ; and the circumstance of the 
filaments being in some degree united at the base, as well as the habit of the plant, might 
justify its being considered monadelphous. 
