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: *** SEMEN LIBERUM. ' 
Forma, Semen ovatum lenticulari compreffum pilofum. 
INTEG. duplex; exterius membranaceum pilis intertextis vefti- 
| | tum, interius coriaceum, in obtufiori parte chalaza 
lata ferruginea notatum. 
Perisp. | nulum. - : 
 EmBR. .  Semini conformis albefcens, cotyledones due plano- 
. convexz carnofz, radicula minima. 
This genus I have defcribed from fpecimens fent from India by 
Dr. Ruffel and. Dr. Koenig. We are acquainted with only one 
{pecies, a. tree growing - in the forefts of India, which I call Feronia 
elepbantum, from the name by which it goes TE the Englifh 
inhabitants of the Eaft Indies. 
Plants are always better defcribed from frefh, than from dried 
fpecimens; but in order to fatisfy myfelf, and to be able to anfwer 
for the characters, I have fcrupuloufly avoided vendus any which 
were not difcernible in the fpecimens before me *, though Keenig’s 
: defcriptions of the inch marmelos and  Balangas, are more explicit 
* For inftance, the hilum I have not marked, in cither of the two genera, becaufe I 
could not fufficiently diftinguith its figure. That of the Feronia feems to me worthy the 
"attention of the botanifts who may have occafion to obferve it in a fzefh fj pecimen. The 
ES fle(h, which in both genera furrounds the loculaments, I defcribe fuch as it was in the dry 
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Ípecimens: after having. been. foaked. The membranes, which form the loculaments, I 
have not defcribed, though'effential parts, becaufe I conceive they muft be very different - 
in the frefh fruit, from what they appeared to me in the dry fpecimens. I muft notice, 
however, that their interior furface, in both genera, is covered with large round fears of 
dried veficular glands, of which I will heréafter take an opportunity of {peaking more at 
jarge, and i in a more proper place, in a Memoir on the Natural Order of the Aurantia. . 
- Vor. V. S Gg : row n 
