and certain Indian Terebinthacee. 363 
Pulp fibrous, arilliform, closely adherent to the shell of the py- 
rene, especially to the umbilical chink. 
Pyrene single in each mature cell, size of a cherry-stone, round- 
ish, with gibbous back and flat belly ; greenish-yellow. 
Shell stony, thick: swollen at the umbilical chink. 
Seed solitary, oblong, concave on one side, convex on the 
. other. 
Integument single, Tao white : barely marked with the 
rhaphe. 
Perisperm none. 
Embryo inverse, slightly bowed, greenish-white, brittle amygda- 
loid. 
Cotyledons foliaceous, thin, intricately folded, chrysaloid. Ra- 
dicle superior, cylindric, obtuse, thick. 
Plumule obscure. é 
Seminal leaves of the germinating planiule, oyate; three-lobed, 
denticulate. - d 
BOSWELLIA SERRATA. Roab. C. As. Res.ix. p.377, cum tab. 
Tan. V. Fip.t 
Germ superior, conical, three-sided, three-celled, with two ovules 
_in each cell attached to the top of the axis. 
Style cylindric. Stigma three-lobed. 
Capsule three-sided ; sides oval, three-celled, three-valved, open- 
ing spontaneously at the edge ; valves smooth, hard, brown. 
Seeds solitary ; the second ovule in each cell being abortive : 
broad-cordate, with a fine membranaceous wing all around. 
Perisperm none. . 
Embryo conform to the seed, inverse, pale-yellow. Cotyledons 
intricately folded, multifid. Radicle superior, short, co- 
nical. 
PEGIA 
