Berberis, HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 181 
penetrates to, or beyond the centre, and there enlarging, it 
occupies a considerable space. Embryo lodged in a co- 
nic pit, a little above the base on the inside. 
2. L. spinosa. Willd. 2. p. 201. 
Leaves digitate-palmate. Spadix shorter than the arm- 
ed petioles. . 
Licuala arbor. Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 9. 
Corypha licuala, frondibus palmatis’ foliolis linearibus 
nervosis apice premorsis.  Petiolis basi spinosis, spadice 
erecto stricto. Lamarck, Encyclop. 2.131. 
ACHRAS. Schreb, gen. n. 593. 
Calyx six-leaved. Corel six-cleft, with scales on the 
inside. Germ superior, from eight to ten celled ; cells one- 
Seeded ; attachment interior. Berry from eight to ten cel- 
led. Seed solitary. Embryo erect, and furnished with a 
perisperm. 
_ A. Sapota. Willd, 2. 224. 
Flowers solitary. Leaves lanceolar, lucid. 
“A native of China, from thence introduced into the 
Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where growing in the same 
place with the West India tree they are not to be distin- 
guished fromit. The China trees have not yet blossom- 
ed, but those from the West Indies flower in the hot Sea- 
son, and the fruit ripens in the rains. 
BERBERIS Shreb. gen. n. 595. 
Calyx six or more, leaved, — Corol six-petalled ; at the 
are two glands. Germ superior, one-celled two or 
More-seeded ; attachment sub-inferior: Berry from two to 
thre-seeded. aa erect and furnished witls a hese a 
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