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long, and two or three broad, —_-Petioles common, flat on 
the upper side below the leaflets, where they are inserted, 
flexuose, and nearly round, Petiolets short, andround. Stéz- 
pules none. Panicles axillary, or rather above the axils, 
“rigid, not balf the length of the leaves, composed of short, 
alternate, rigid, expanding ramifications. © In old stunt- 
ed trees, the panicle has dwindled into a small, rigid, 
simple raceme. Bractes minute, caducous at a very early 
- period, Flowers rather small, of a pale yellow colour, in- 
dorous, Calyx one-leayed, small, campanulate ; mouth 
four-toothed. Petals four, linear, recurvate, many times 
larger than the calyx, and rather longer than the exterior 
nectary. Nectary double ; exterior subcylindric, and ofa 
deeper yellow colour than the petals; mouth a little con- 
tracted, and obscurely eight-toothed, the inner one some- 
what gibbous, about one-third of the length of the exte- 
‘Hor one, fleshy, orange-coloured ; mouth funnel-shaped, 
eight-toothed; teeth alternately smaller, and many of them 
dentate. Filament none, Anthers eight, inserted on the 
_ inside of the exterior nectary, a little within its mouth, 
and immediately under the eight fissures. | Germ supe- 
nor, ovate, four-celled, with two horizontally placed ovu- 
lain each, attached to the top of the axis. Style cylin- 
dric as long as the exterior nectary. Stigma enlarged ; a- 
Pex obscurely four-lebed, its base surrounded with a belt. 
Capsule globose, the size ofan apple, of a hard fleshy tex- 
ture, smooth ; when ripe, ofa deep yellow throughout, four- 
celled, Sinctovilined; opening from the apex. Seed solita- 
Ty, obovate, oblong, the size and appearance of a chesnut ; 
RO aril; Integument single, spongy ; the outside polished, 
ofa dark purple colour ; inwardly yellow. Perisperm none. 
Oinverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed, firm, 
of a deep green round the edges, paler within. Plumula 
Conic, two-lobed. Radicle ovate, superior, its apex consi- 
derably within the vertex of the cotyledons, = 
Bo. all I have yet examined, this tree comes m . 
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