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of the other three or four ovaries: this circumstance, too, is indi- 
cated by the obliquity of the scar near the summit, representing the 
position of the style. The seed of commerce consists simply of the 
separated cotyledons, not much unlike blanched almonds, but larger 
aud plano-convex, 
Simaba Cedron, Planch. ; trunco erecto, ramis subumbellato-capitatis, 
foliis longissimis pinnatis glabris sub-20-jugis eum impari, foliolis 
subcoriaceis elliptico-lanceolatis aeuminulatis basi obliquis, racemis 
elongatis compositis, ramis rufescenti-subvelutiuis, drupis magnis 
ovalibus solitariis (Tas. Nostr. XT.). 
8. Cedron, Planchon, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. vi. p. 566. 
Has. New Grenada. Banks near San Pablo of the Magdalena, W. 
Purdie. Isla de Caybo, coast of the Pacific, Thomas Seemann. 
" Descr. The height of the /ree is not exactly stated, but it pro- 
bably does not exceed twenty feet, with an erect, undivided fruz£, not 
more than six inches in diameter, crowned with a dense and somewhat 
umbellate head of branches. Leaves glabrous, two feet and more long, 
pinnated with twenty or more alternate, rarely opposite, subcoriaceous, 
sessile leaflets, 4—6 inches lóng, acuminulate, oblique (or inzequilateral) at 
the base, penninerved ; the rachis is terete, terminated by an odd leaflet. 
Racemes two feet and more in length, strict, branched, the main rachis 
and branches clothed with minute, ferruginous, velvety down, chiefly 
towards the apices ; branches short, solitary, or clustered ; pedicels brac- 
teolated. Calyx minute, cup-shaped, obscurely 5-toothed, ferruginous- 
downy. Corolla of five, linear, obtuse or retuse, spreading petals, pale - 
brown and downy externally. Stamens ten, short, arising from the 
back of as many staminiferous scales, which are erect, and approximate 
into a tube. Anthers ‘oblong, introrse. Ovaries five, seated upon a 
columnar gynophore, downy. Styles five, united into one, above the base, —— 
and exceeding the stamens in length. Ovules one in each ovary. Fruit — 
a very large, solitary (by abortion) drupe, of an oval form, oblique at 
the top, and having a scar below the summit, indicating the former 
site of the style. The soft portion of the fruit seems, in the preserved 
state, not to have been very soft and fleshy: it is lined with a horny 
endocarp. Seed large, solitary, suspended, its integument membrana- 
ceous, with a conspicuous chalaza. Albumen none. Embryo conform 
with the side. — Cofyledous very large, fleshy, white when fresh. oS 
Tas. Xl. Fig. 1, upper portion of a branched raceme ; fig. 2, base of _ 
a leaf, and of a raceme, nat. size ; fig. 3, flower, not fully expanded ; 
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