ve | DALRYMPELEA POMIFERA. — 
about eight in each cell, widely attached to the axis. Style 
length of the germ, 3-grooved. Stigma 8-lobed. 
Berry drupaceous, has the appearance of a pome, of a roundish 
3-lobed form, very fleshy, when ripe yellow, and almost 
smooth, size of a large medlar, 3-celled. 
Seeds, several in each cell, shape various, the most common 
roundish reniform, and considerably compressed, attached to 
the partition. IJntegument single, thick, and of great hardness, 
in fact a perfect nut, exterior surface brown and highly 
polished. 
Perisperm conform to the seed. 
Embryo obliquely-inferior. Cotyledons cordate, 3-nerved. Radicle 
oval, obliquely centrifugal. 
WILLUGHBFEIA. 
NATURAL ORDER APOCINE! Juss. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Corol hypocrateriform. Stigma capitate. Germ 
one-celled ; ovules many, attached to two opposite parietal 
receptacles. Berry one-celled. Seeds few, nidulent. Embryo 
without albumen. 
280. WILLUGHBEIA EDULIS. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves opposite, oblong, acuminate. Flowers 
in small axillary fascicles. Berries very large, from oval to sphe- 
rical. . 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Latti-Am the vernacular name in Chittagong, Silhet, &c. where 
it grows to an immense size, running over the largest trees. It is 
in flower and fruit nearly the whole year. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Bark of the trunk and large branches, of large old plants, above 
half an inch thick, inwardly dark brown ; surface tubercled ; 
taste somewhat astringent. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, acuminate, entire, polish- 
ed; veins simple, and parallel: length 3-5 inches, by 1-2 
broad. 
Peduncles axillary and terminal, solitary, short, each supporting 
a few middling-sized, pale pink coloured, short-pedicelled 
flowers, forming small fascicles. 
Bractes solitary at the base of each pedicel, ovate. . 
Calyx one-leaved, 5-toothed ; segments ovate, subciliate. 
Corol one-petalled, infundibuliform : Tube gibbous near the middle, 
where the stamina are lodged, a little hairy on the inside: 
Border of five, sublanceolate, smooth, expanding segments, 
which are imbricated in the bud. 
Filaments short, inserted into the tube of the corol, a little above 
its base. Anthers subsagittate, but do not adhere to each 
other, on each side a polliniferous groove. 
Germ superior, ovate, smooth, one-celled; ovules many, attached to 
two opposite parietal receptacles. Style short. Stigma conical, 
and closely embraced by the anthers. 
WILLUGHBEIA EDULIS. 78 
Berry size of alarge lemon, subovate, covered witha thick, friable, © 
pretty smooth, brownish yellow cortex, one-celled. 
Seeds many,nidulent in a soft yellowish pulp, which is intermixed 
with softer cottony fibres, size of a small garden bean, shape 
various. Integuments two ; exterior rather fleshy, and seems 
to furnish the soft fibres with which the pulp is intermixed ; 
interior thin and friable. 
Albumen none. 
Embryo: Cotyledons conform to the seed, firm, straw-colour with 
a tinge of pink; while fresh, if wounded, a quantity of milk 
exudes, which svon becomes bad caoutchouc. Radicle small, 
roundish. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Every part of the plant, on being wounded, discharges copi- 
ously, a very pure white viscid juice ; which is soon, by exposure 
to the open air, changed into an indifferent kind of elastic rubber, 
or caoutchouc. The fruit is eaten by the natives where it grows, 
and by them reckoned good. 
281. ECHITES GRANDIFLORA. 
Scandent. Leaves cuneate-oblong. Cymes terminal, and axillary. 
Leaflets of the calyx lanceolar, waved, and coloured. Corol cam pa- 
nulate. Follicles linear. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of the hilly parts of Chittagong and Silhet, where it 
blossoms during the dry season and the seed take nearly one year 
to ripen. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem and large branches ligneous, and scandent to a very great 
extent; young shoots villous. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, from oblong-cuneiform to obovate- 
oblong, entire, apex rounded with a short point, void of 
pubescence, but hard: 6-8 inches long, by 2-5 broad. 
Cymes axillary, becoming lateral, short, few-flowered, all the parts 
thereof clothed with ferruginous down. 
Flowers very large, equalling those of Solandra grandiflora, pale 
greenish-yellow. 
Bractes oblong, coloured, and veined. 
Calyx to the base divided into five, long, lanceolate, waved, acute, 
coloured, veined segments. 
Corol campanulate. Border expands about five inches, and is 
divided into five, oval, waved, rather acuminate broad 
segments. 
Stamina: Filaments five, nearly as long as the corol, ascending in 
a gentle curve, smooth, inserted into the base of the bell of 
the corol. Anthers sagittate, sides firmly united, forming 
a conical cover for the stigma to which they cohere. 
Germ 2-lobed, hairy, 2-celled: ovules numerous, attached to a jugi- 
form receptacle in each cell, rising from the partition. Style 
length of the stamina. Stigma large, clammy. 
Follicles horizontal, linear, obtuse, pretty smooth, thick as the little _ 
finger; points rather incurved, and obtuse; 6-10 inches 
long. 
Seeds numerous, imbricated, oblong, compressed, brown, comose. 
Coma very ample, I have rarely seen so large, points to the 
apex of the follicle. 
