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cere, deciduce, oblongae, obtusae, erectae, integerrimse, bre- 

 ves. Capitulum rloriferum, foliorum altero deficiente, oppo- 

 sitifolium, magnitudine ovi columbini, obtusum, nudum. 

 Calyx : margo integer. Corolla alba limbo quinquepartito, 

 laciniarum duabus remotioribus. Fr actus ovatus, glaber, 

 obtusus, magnitudine ovi anserini, e baccis arete adhaerenti- 

 bus, apice quinquangularibus, areolaris, flavescens, edulis. 



Species 2. 

 Morinda bracteata, caule arboreo, pedunculo ad apicem foliato 



elongato, baccis unitis. Hort. Beng. 15. 

 Bancudus angustifolia. Herb. Amb. iii. 157- t. 98. 

 Habitat in insulis Andamanicis. 



Arbor viginti vel triginta pedes alta, ramulis angulatis subtetra- 

 gonis. Folia opposita, lanceolata, integerrima, acuminata, 

 glabra, venosa, undulata. Fetiolus brevissimus. Stipulce 

 interfoliaceae. Fedunculus foliorum altero deficiente oppo- 

 sitifolius, teres, erectus, capitulo multo longior, foliolo uno 

 vel altero ad apicem bracteatus. Capitulum floriferum sub- 

 rotundum magnitudine nucis moschatae. Calyx: margo in- 

 teger. Corolla alba laciniis duabus erectioribus. Bacca te- 

 trasperma. 



While in the Andaman islands, Mr. Stockoe, one of the officers 

 stationed there, showed me a piece of Gamboge which had been 

 found in the island ; and a Malay was procured, who undertook 

 to show me the tree from whence it had been taken. This Mo- 

 rinda was what he showed, calling it Bancudu, evidently the name 

 used by Rumphius for the Morinda. Indeed this differs only 

 from his Bancudus angustifolius in having one or two bracts, or 

 small leaves rather, at the top of the pedunculus, in place of 

 having a bract between every flower. The Malay was probably 



deceiving 



