ceolate or elliptical, attenuated at the base, acuminated at 
the extremity, from four to six or eight inches long, quite 
glabrous on both sides, having a mid-rib and parallel ob- 
liquely transverse veins, the margins obscurely serrated. 
The inflorescence is produced in a terminal corymb of 
from two to eight flowers. The pedicels long, thick, pur- 
plish, glabrous, gradually enlarging upwards. Calyx two 
inches broad, cut to the very base into five broadly-ovate 
or rounded, obtuse, spreading lobes, of a purplish-brown 
colour and thick texture, with a scar or transverse mark 
near the extremity on the outside, concave, within pale 
purple towards the apex. Corolla of five very large ellip- 
tical concave petals, imbricating in the bud, of a deep 
purplish-brown colour, paler and redder where they have 
been protected by the outer ones; the inside is pale yel- 
lowish, streaked with purplish red. Stamens exceedingly 
numerous, hypogynous, united into one body at the base, 
the union reaches higher up from the base in the inside, 
than on the outside of this tube, thence separating into an 
infinite number of separate bundles of filaments, which are 
themselves united for about half their length, and which 
then divide into from sixteen to twenty slender, unequal, 
yellowish, distinct filaments, each terminated by an oblong, 
curved, two-celled, longitudinally-opening Anther. Pollen 
exactly spherical. The number of these stamens Mr. 
Guitvine has determined to exceed four thousand nine 
minated by four filiform Styles, about as long as the 
stamens, yellowish-green at the base, the rest reddish: the 
Stigmas simple, acute, Fruit an almost spherical, four- 
celled, four-seeded drupe ; measuring five or six inches in 
diameter ; but having, generally, one or more of the cells 
abortive,—the form of the entire fruit is altered in conse- 
quence ; and the extremity or scar of the styles is generally 
excentric._ The exterior surface is, when ripe, of a reddish- 
brown colour, os mottled with darker markings, like a 
russet apple ; the flesh is thick and yellowish. Each cell 
has a lining of a white astringent pulp, in which the large 
Nuts lie embedded ; affixed, as it appears, to a central axis : 
these are of a rounded subreniform figure, and rich brown 
colour, compressed, and even flattened to an almost sha 
edge on one side and truncated, where they are attache 
to the pericarp, and there likewise having a sulcus. The 
shell is closely embossed with tubercles, which are elon- 
gated towards the flattened edges, of a very hard aus 
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