HORTUS MALABARICUS 6; 
Ld 
DON piv poca 
Tab. $5 
xwmemS Ripa Malabarenfibus , lrippt; Brachmanis i 
Á Qu / Fruita Bol/a Lufitanis , qW'as-noten Belgis; ar- 
v $39 bor eft procera, fexaginta circiter pedes 
Dd YE alta, caudicecratfo, denfo, cinereo. cor- 
7839749 tice obducto nigricante, intus rubicundo, 
| nec non ramulis cinereis & fübviridibus 
plurimis donato. | 
Radix rubicunda, flavefcente cortice tecta; nec non fi- 
bris fuis laté perterram diffufa; fapor acris, odor nullus. 
Foli4 geminata ordine parallelo ramulis inherent. ob- 
longo-rotunda, glabra, denfa, fuperné colore atro- 
viridinitentia, inferné viridi-dilutiore; nervulis exiguis - 
plurimis é media cofta in parte adverfa quodammodo ex- 
tuberante, & folium per longitudinem medium inz- 
qualiter fecante , obliqué in latera excurrentibus : odor 
nullus, fapor fubadftringens. 
Fore; inter folia circa ramulos fparfim proveniunt; 
exigui, candidi, inodori. e quatuor acuminatis foliolis 
conítantes : hzcque foliola intercedunt o&o ftaminula 
alba, apicibus rubicundis donata , medium occupante 
Ítylo candido, quiipfius fructus rudimentum eft. 
Frucdius oblongo-rotundi, compreffi, inzquales, ac ful- 
Co ftriati, cucurbitis formá haud abfimiles, córtice craffo, 
COriaceo , nec non carnofo, molli, ac pulvinato tecti, 
amygdale in modum; qui, fructibus in maturitatem 
tendentibus, in utroque latere dehifcit, fefeque aperit, 
aC Nucleun relinquit albicantem, tenui pelliculà cinctum, 
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