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Silhet. Flowers in the rainy season, and fipens its seed in the 
cold season, about January. 
Beng. (at Silhet) Ghorma. 
Trunk arboreous. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, ovate to broad 
lanceolate, (sometimes unequal, acuminate, entire, smooth, 
shining ; 4—6 inches long, 11—3 broad.  Petioles 4 inch; 
round beneath, channelled on the upper edge. Racemes length. 
of the leaf, erect, simple, cylindric. Peduncles four-cornered, 
slender, villous. Pedicels as long as the flowers. Flowers yel- 
lowish-green, inodorous. Perianth cyathiform, six-toothed, de- 
ciduous, leaving a small entire ring at the base of the fertilized. 
germ. Teeth subulate. Petats six, on the margin of the caly-. 
cine cup, ovate, villous. Filaments numerous (30—40) on the 
margin of the calycine cup, capillary. Anthers round. Germ. 
above, roundish, villous. Style filiform, length of the stamina.. 
Stigma truncate. Drupe transversely oblong, juiceless at ma- 
turity, size of an olive, dark-purple. Nut subreniform, con- - 
tracted in the middle; lobes subequal ; crustaceous. Seed con- 
form to the nut, attached dorsally a little below the apex. ne, 
‘tegument single, chartaceous. Perisperm none. Embryo c con-. 
form to the seed, inverse, yellowish-white. : Cotyledons thick, 
flat on the contiguous. ends, and hemispherical on the outer; 
amygdaloid. .Radicle superior, vety small, conical. 
A + Xen constituted the genus, saw: neither dm nor 
any other part of the plant besides the fruit: consequently, until 
his Ceylonese plant has been further examined, it must remain 
doubtful, as I apprehend, whether the species be distinct: and, 
at all events, the specific character cannot be yet determined, as 
but one species is fully described. | 
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