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capsule dehiscentiam pulpo involuta, in centro permanentia. Receptacula 
tria medio valvularum longitudinaliter adnata, carnosa, bifariam dentata. 
Semina plura in pulpo purpureo succulento ramentaceo nidulantia, recep- 
taculorum denticulis insidentia, angulata. Albumen album. Embryo rec- 
tus. Cotyledones plane. 
Coronpti, seu CounoNpi, p. 103. tab. 50. 
Commeline mentions that this tree had been described by Zanoni under the 
name of Corundi, but gives no hint at its affinities. 
Plukenet (Alm. 307.) described a tree of the West Indies, which the Caribs 
called Maubain, Mombina, or Mommina, and which, therefore, we might sup- 
pose to be a Spondias, although he is doubtful whether it be the Hobos or 
Spondias Myrobalanus; and he mentions it as different from the Spondias 
Mombin of Linnzeus, of which he gives a figure in the Phytographia (t. 218. 
f.3.). But in the Mantissa (156.) he considers his Mombina as the same with 
his Mamee Indice Occid. Juglandis folio vinifera (Phyt. t. 204. f. 2.), which, if 
the synonyma quoted are right, is a tree (Mammea Americana) having no sort 
of affinity with the Spondias ; for it has simple leaves, while those of the Spon- 
dias are pinnated. The figure given by Plukenet is so imperfect that very 
little reliance can be placed on it; nor can I venture to affirm whether it 
represents the branch of a tree with simple leaves, or part of a compound leaf. 
The name Juglandis folio, however, clearly implies the latter, and it is pro- 
bable that Plukenet's Mombina is therefore a Spondias, the more especially as 
he compares it to the Cat Ambalam (Hort. Malab. i. 93.), which escaped my 
notice when I treated of that plant (Linn. Trans. xiii. 532.). . Plukenet also 
compares with his Mombina the Courondi, of which I am now treating; but 
this only shows his inaccuracy, the Courondi having simple leaves. We may, 
therefore, altogether reject Plukenet's comparison of the Cowrondi with his 
American plant as unsatisfactory. | 
M. Lamarck (Enc. Méth. ii. 160.) mentions this tree on the authority of 
Rheede, without being able to throw any light on its affinities, merely quoting 
a name given by Ray, and derived entirely, I suppose, from Rheede's account. 
M. Lamarck thinks it probable, that in the Courozdi the germen is above the 
calyx; but of this I am doubtful, as in the drawing of the fruit there is not 
