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2. P. digitatum. R. y 
Arboreous, armed, Leaves digitate ; leaflets entire, 
lanceolate, acuminate. Panicles pendulous, It is the Soo- 
nath, or Kota-soona of the Hindus about Silhet, where the 
tree is indigenous and flowers in May, and produces seed 
in November. 
Itis a pretty large tree, with numerous branches spread- 
ing in all directions,the younger ones armed with innumer- 
able, short, somewhat incurved, very sharp aculei, which 
fall off with the exterior coat of the. bark. Leaves alter- 
nate, about the ends of the branchlets, digitate. Leaflets 
generally seven, petiolate, oblong, and broad-lanceolate, - 
entire, smooth, acuminate ; from three to six inches long. 
Petioles from ten to fifteen inches long, round, smooth, © 
and unarmed. Petiolets from one to two inches long. 
Panicles terminal, from two to four feet long, pendulous, 
and composed of many, alternate, simple, globular, long- 
pedicelled, small greenish-yellow flowers. Common pedun- 
cle armed ; partial or pedicells, with some little scaly brac- 
tes; allareround, and somewhat downy, Calyx five- 
parted; divisions ensiform, Petals five, oblong, patent, 
Filaments five, rather shorter than the petals, inserted be- 
tween them into a fleshy, crenate, poculiform body which 
embraces the germ. Anthers two-lobed. Germ sunk in 
the solid body just mentioned, two-celled, with one ovula 
in each, attached to the tup of the partition. Style two, 
shorter than the stamina, coalesced. Stigma simp) e. 
Berry inferior, nearly round somewhat succulent, black, 
smooth, widely crowned with the remaining fiye-toothed 
calyx ; size of a black currant, and not unlike one, two- 
celled. Seed solitary, hemispheric, a small groove down 
the middle of the inside, covered witha single, rather 
tough, smooth integument. Perisperm conform to the seed, 
cartilaginous. Embryo small, inverse, lodged on the out- 
side of the upper half of the perisperm.. s Coote. 
small, p oblong, Radicle oblong, Superior. i genni 
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