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Dr. Francis HauirToN's Commentary 
Flores sex seu septem, magni, albi, subsessiles, alterni prodeunt e 
ramulorum apice ante folia, quze postea intra flores erum- 
punt; unde flores terminales, fructus laterales. Bractee ad 
singulos flores ternæ, oblongæ, obtusæ, calyce paulo bre- 
. viores, persistentes. 
Caly 
v superus, quadripartitus, laciniis subrotundis, concavis, 
ciliatis, prope fundum disco erecto integro cinctus. Petala 
quatuor, coriacea, oblonga, calyce multo longiora, ciliata, 
oblique revoluta, extra discum inserta. Filamenta plurima, 
indefinita, subulata, multiplice serie disco inserta, basi co- 
alita, interioribus brevissimis, et intermediis tantum anthe- 
riferis inæqualia. Anthere oblongæ. Germen turbinatum, 
disco concavo tetragono coronatum, quadriloculare. Sty- 
lus teres, longitudine staminum, rectus. Stigma subrotun- 
dum, quadrilobum. 3 
Bacca oviformis, levis, calyce supero persistente umbilicata, 
carnosa, filamentosa, septis fere evanescentibus, sed semi- 
nibus quadrifariam approximatis, et carne interstinctis ob- 
solete quadrilocularis. Receptaculum nullum. Semina plura, 
nidulantia, compressa, glabra, hinc hylo derasa. Integu- 
mentum coriaceum, crassum. Albumen album, forma semi- 
nis, carnosum. | Embryo recta, teres, utrinque acutiuscula, 
longitudine albuminis centralis. | 
CovALAM, p. 37. tab. 37. 
In a Commentary on the Herbarium Amboinense (i. 197.) I have 
said 
The 
every thing that seems necessary concerning this plant. 
name Belou, given by the Brahmans of Malabar, is evidently 
the same with the Be/ of the Bengalese dialect, as the commen- 
tator justly observes ; and Scrifole is his orthography for what I 
write Sri-phul (the holy fruit). : 
SYALITA, 
