86 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA, Semecarpus. 
the Botanic Garden at Calcutta in 1798, and.in August,’ 
1804, they blossomed for the first time, when they were 
handsome, small trees, about twelve feet in height, with 
many smooth ascending branches, and branchlets. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolate, entire 
and very smooth on both sides; length from ten to 
eighteen inches, and from three to five broad. Petioles 
from one to two inches long, round, and smooth. Stipules 
none, Panicles terminal, thin, long-ovate, smooth. Bractes 
minute, caducous. Flowers numerous, small, greenish- 
yellow, and inodorous, Calyx saucer-shaped, five-tooth- 
ed. Petals five, ovate, spreading. Nectary a yellow fleshy 
ring round the base of the germ, which becomes the fleshy 
receptacle of the seed. Filaments five, rather broad, 
length of the germ, inserted round the base of the necta- 
ry. Germ superior, roundish, one-celled, containing one 
ovula attached to the top of the cell. Styles three, spread- 
ing. Stigmas two-toothed. Nut resting on the large smooth, 
yellow, fleshy, cup-shaped receptacle, obliquely-obverse, 
reniform, one celled, one valved, considerably compress- 
ed, longitudinally striated and wrinkled, colour a brown- 
ish black, and ofa firm leathery consistence, composed 
ofan exterior, and interior integument, with numerous 
small cells between. Seed single, completely filling the 
nut, covered with a single brown integument. Perisperm 
none. Embryo inverse. Cotyledons two, conform to the — 
seed. Plumula two-lobed. Radicle conical, superior, 
that is, lodged between the most elevated part of the co- 
tyledons, and at the greatest distance from the umbili- 
cus, or base of the nut. 
3. S. cuneifolia, R, 
- Leaves wedge-shaped, vacate vaadiid villous under- 
neath, 
A native of the range of mountains which posiids 3 
Hindoosthan on the north, from thence seeds were sent — 
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