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smooth and slender. Panicles lateral, scattered round 
the base of the young shoots, below their tender fo- 
liage, solitary, long-peduncled, expanding, small, com- 
posed of a few, nearly diverging branchlets. Flowers 
numerous, pedicelled, small, pale yellow. Bractes few, mi- 
nute, caducous. Calyx with border divided into six al- 
ternately rather smaller, oblong, obtuse, expanding seg- 
ments, which are somewhat hairy on the inside. Nec- 
tarial glands three, with sagittate yellow heads, alter- 
nate, with the inner three stamina, and three pair on 
their filaments, immediately below the anthers, Fila- 
ments nine; six in the exterior series, inserted on the 
base of the divisions of the calyx, and three on the in- 
ner inserted with the sagittate nectarial glands, round the 
mouth of its tube. Anthers oval, with four poliniferous, 
lidded pits, on the inside of the exterior series, and four 
on the inside of the inner. Germ superior, ovate, one- 
celled, with one seed attached to the top of the cell, Style 
short. Stigma three-toothed. Berry globular, the size of a 
small black currant, smooth, when ripe succulent, and of 
adark purple colour, the pulp smells exactly like the 
fresh skin of a green orange, one-celled. Seed solitary, 
round. Integuments two ; the exterior one rather hard, 
and dark brown; the interior one membranaceous, and 
adhering to the cotyledons. Perisperm none. Embryo in- 
verse.  Cotyledons semispherical. Plumula tne, peas 
Radicle ovate, superior, 
13. L. lanceolaria. R ) 
Arboreous, every part glossy. Leaves alternate, lan- 
_ Ceolar, acuminate, one-nerved. Panicles axillary, and 
_Tound the base of the young shoots. Berries oblong. 
Pe scsmucange the vernacular name in Silhéet where it is 
indigenous. It grows to be a middling sized tree, the were 
of which the natives convert into various useful purpo ie a 
Flowering time igo the fruit ripens in the rains, 
