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are alternate, and composed of two, three, four, and sometimes 
five pair of leaflets, nearly opposite, and ovato-lanceolate acute, but 
with the apex somewhat obtuse and emarginate, smooth, shin- 
ing, entire, marked with transparent spots, hairy on the under ~ 
surface, and with a short footstalk ; many leaves terminate un- 
equally, ‘and in this case consist of five, six, or nine leaflets. 
The common petioles are thickish and hairy. The flowers spring 
from the sears of the young branches, and from the axille of the 
leaves, in single racemes larger than the leaves; florets sparsed, . 
pedicelled, erect, supported by a small ovate concave flexible 
bractea. The calyx is dark green, campanulate, divided into 
five small and nearly equal teeth, but one of them so far sepa- 
rated from the rest as to be found placed under the emer, 
and they all fall off when the flower withers. 
The corolla is composed of five white petals, four of ehese nar- 
row, equal, lanceolate, and larger than the calyx ; ; the fifth re- 
flexed, broad, and twice the size of the others. ‘The stamina 
consist of ten filaments inserted ‘into the calyx and inclining to 
one side; the anthere elongated, sharp-pointed, and sulcated, 
The pistil consists of an oblong germen, supported on a curved 
pedicle, inclining with the stamina to the same side; the style 
short, subulate, and crooked, and the stigma simple. sd 
_ The pericarp pendulous, straw-colouréd; nearly two inches in 
length, club-shaped, somewhat curved, globular near the top, and 
terminated: by the curved style ; contracted towards the base, and 
compressed mto: the form of a rough t ube, wrinkled, d ctile, thick, 
furnished with tyrestitestr edges ;. the globular ‘part is composed 
of a*single cell; which contains one seed, which is crescent- 
shaped, projecting: from the cell, and between this and the 
lining: of the pericarp is filled with a yellow ——— balsam, which 
in time dries and becomes as hard as resin. q 
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