372 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Petaloma. 
nearly erect. Bractes minute, one-flowered, caducous, 
Flowers numerous, small, yellow, single, approximate. 
Calyx below, five-toothed. Filaments united at the base. 
Anthers incumbent and white, with a gland on the apex of 
each which falls off soon after the flower expands. Style 
crooked. Stigma simple. Legume long, pendulous, not in- 
flated. Seeds many, lodged ina brown mealy substance. | 
‘The pod of this tree is the only part used; it is about 
an inch in circumference, and from six to twelve long; 
when ripe, brown and smooth, containing besides the seeds 
a large quantity of a brown mealy substance which the 
natives eat. Its taste is sweetish, and agreeable ; it may 
therefore be compared to the Spanish Algaroba, or Lo-- 
cust iree ( Ceratonia siliqua.) 
CYNOMETRA. Linn. 
Calyx four-leaved. Corol five-petalled. Legume fleshy, 
lunate, one-seeded. Embryo centripetal, no perisperm. 
_C. polyandra. R. es 
Leaves pinnate, Branchlets floriferous. Flowers p% 
lyandrous. His 
Peng is the vernacular name in Silhet, where it grows 
to be a very large and useful timber tree. Flowering time 
March and April. The seeds ripen in July and August 
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PETALOMA. Schreb. gen. n. 1750. 
aloe five-toothed. Petals five, the stamina inserted 
on the calyx. Berry inferior, one-celled. Seeds from one 
to four. 
P. alternifolia. R, 
Leaves alternate, meron cmetie, emarginate. nar 
axillary. 
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