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there any perisperm, but both the cotyledons are doubled, 
and equally long. 
2. S. trijuga, Willd. 4. 1096. 
Leaflets three pair, lanceolate. Flowers apetalous. 
Koon. Geert. sem. 2. p. 486. t. 180. f. 11. 3 
Cing. Coughas. 
~ Tam, Zolim-buriki. 
Teling. May, or Roatangha. 
A stout, handsome middling sized tree, a native of va- 
rious parts of India. Flowers aboutFebruary. The fruit 
ripens in May. It is allied to Melicocca, and Scytalia, 
probably not sufficiently removed from the former to au- 
thorize its forming a new genus. The pulpy subacid aril, 
is edible, and palatable. 
Leaves about the extremities of the branchlets, abrupt- 
ly pinnate, from eight to sixteen incheslong. Leaflets 
from two to four pair, opposite, sessile, broad-lanceo- 
late, or oblong, entire, pretty smooth on both sides ; the 
lower pairs the smallest ; from three to eight inches long. 
Petioles a little downy, from six to sixteen inches long. 
Stipules wanting. Racemes axillary, or below the leaves, 
found the base of the young shoots, solitary ; in the male 
Simple ; in the hermaphrodite often compound ; from two 
to four inches long. 
Maur. Calyx cup-formed, five-toothed. Corol none. 
Filaments from six to ten, erect, many times longer than 
the calyx. Anthers oval, erect, Pistil, merely the radi- 
ment of one. — 
_Hermapnropire flowers ona separate tree, Calyx 
as in the male. Corol none. Nectary a fleshy, yellow ring. 
surrounding the insertions of the filaments. Stamens as 
in the male, Germ superior, ovate, three-celled, with one 
ovula i in each, attached to the bottom of the cell. Style 
short, Stigma three-cleft, recurved, slender, d 1y- 
