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thers ten, inserted within the tube. Ovary five-celled ; cells 
containing a single or double ovulum attached above to the 
inner angle. I have never observed two distinct ovula; but 
the single one is often marked with a furrow, as if composed 
of two united together. Style short, thick, columnar, ten- 
furrowed. Stigma flat, obscurely radiated. Berry of a 
yellowish colour, cortical, seated on the persistent calyx, 
oblong-ovate, or oval, slightly tomentose, five-celled, five- 
seeded. Seeds enveloped in a white semi-transparent pulpy 
tunic or aril, exalbuminous ; cotyledons solid, conform to . 
the seed, unequal, irregularly transverse, peltate ; the short 
pilose radicle being inserted into their centre. Two seeds 
are frequently contained in one common integument, so 
firmly united as to appear but one, until by dissection the 
two radicles and four irregular cotyledons are discovered. 
There are seldom more than one or two cells in each fruit 
that perfect their seed; the others are only filled with the 
white transparent pulp. 
Var. 8. L.aqueum. 
Foliolis subtus villosis, racemis densis sæpius solitariis, fructibus 
globosis. 
Ayer Ayer. Malay. 
The Ayer Ayer so nearly resembles the Lanséh in most par- 
ticulars, that I hesitate to rank it as a distinct species, and con- 
tent myself with mentioning it as a permanent and well-marked 
variety. They are principally distinguished by the Malays by 
their fruit, that of the Ayer Ayer being rounder, and the pulp 
more watery (whence the name), and dissolving more completely 
in the mouth than that of the Lanséh. Both are highly esteemed 
by the Malays, and are equally agreeable to the European palate. 
The 
