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bout the ends of the branchlets, short-petidled, narrow, 
cuneiform, entire, acute, smooth on both sides, but paler 
underneath ; length one or two feet, and the breadth from 
three to six inches. Petioles short and thick, and arm- 
ed generally with two subulate, inoffensive, incurved, 
thorn-like bodies on each side of the margin, Stipules 
no other than the last mentioned subulate bodies, on the 
petioles. 
Mae, Panicles axillary, single, much shorter than. 
the leaves. Flowers numerous, small, dull white. Bractes 
small, ferruginous. Calyx five-sided ; angles somewhat 
‘sharp. Corol flat, to the base five-parted, or it may be 
called five-petalled. Segments oblong, villous. Filaments 
five, shorter than the corol. Anthers incumbent. 
~ FEMALE-HERMAPHRODITE on a separate tree. Pani- 
cles, bractes, calyx, and corol as in the male. Stamina as 
in the male, but much smaller, and with minute, seem- 
ingly abortive anthers. Germ inferior, a little hairy, with 
one compressed cell containing one compressed ovula, at- 
tached to one side of the top ofits cell. Styles three, re- 
curved. Stigmas crescent-shaped, a little hairy. Berry 
inferior, naked, exactly ovate, a little compressed, size 
of a large olive, smooth, when ripe yellow, one-celled, e- 
valvular. Cortex rather thick, and containing between its 
soft lamina, numerous cells, filled with a black, rather 
thick, acrid fluid as in the common marking nut, or Ana- 
cardium. Seed conform to the berry. Integument single, 
membranaceous. Perisperm none. Embryo conform to 
the seed, transverse.  Cotyledons equal, ovate, yellow- 
ish, Corcle lateral. Plumula hairy, acute. Radicle ob- 
long, inverse, attached to one edge of the cotyledons, 
considerably below their apex and corresponding with . 
‘Welattachment of the ovula in the-germ. jis Set 
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