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brown, and tolerably smooth bark, abounding in a yellow 
juice, and bearing many whorls of spreading branches. 
Leaves from three to six inches long, subbifarious, oblong, 
approaching to elliptical, glabrous, rather obtuse at the 
base, acuminate at the extremity, quite entire at the mar- 
gin, above dark-green and somewhat glossy, beneath much 
paler, but neither pulverulent nor downy; nerves parallel, 
simple, or only a little branched at the extremities towards 
the margin, prominent, and of a brownish colour beneath. 
Petioles from half to three quarters of an inch long, plane 
-above. When bruised, the leaves are slightly aromatic. 
Flowers in axillary, subumbellate racemes, sometimes 
forked or compound. Peduneles and pedicels subclavate, 
glabrous, the latter having a quickly deciduous, ovate 
bractea at its summit, often appressed to the flower. 
Male i= from three to five or more on a peduncle. 
Perianth single, urceolate, not inaptly compared by Rum- 
puivs to the flower of the Lily of the Valley, which it re- 
sembles in size and form: it is of a thick and fleshy texture, 
clothed with a very indistinct reddish pubescence, of a 
dingy pale yellowish colour, cut into three, rarely, and 
rhaps, the effect of luxuriance, into four, erect, or erecto- 
patent teeth at the extremity. Filaments of the stamens 
united and incorporated so as to form a thickened, whitish, 
cylindrical body, about as long as the perianth, of which 
the top is rounded, and the upper half covered by about 
eleven longi linear-oblong, two-celled anthers, free 
at their base, opening longitudinally, and charged with 
_ yellow pollen. 
_ Female flowers scarcely recognizable, at first sight, from 
the male, except, that the pedicel is very frequently solitary 
onthe peduncle. Pistil solitary, shorter than the perianth, 
broadly-ovate, a little tapering upwards into a short style, 
and bearing a two-lobed persistent stigma: a broad, differ- 
pee Rese band is generally visible near the middle. 
As the germen swells, the perianth falls away: the former 
then becomes obovate, and, from its weight, pendent, con- 
sti ra nearly fa Drupe, of the size, and some- 
what of the shape of a small pear. The flesh, which abounds 
in an astringent juice, is of a yellowish colour, almost white 
within, four or five lines in thickness : this opens into two, 
nearly equal, longitudinal valves, and presents to view the 
Nut, surrounded by its arillus, or Mace, which soon drops 
out, and the husk withers. 
Arillus thick, between horny and fleshy, much lacinistons 
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