386 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA-. | Walsura. 
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size of a cherry, a little compressed, smooth, when ripe, 
black, Nut very hard, one-celled, two-valved. Seed so- 
litary covered with a double integument. Perisperm 
none. Embryo transverse. 
The wood of this tree is used for various purposes, 
and the kernels are a very general substitute for almonds, 
amongst the natives. 
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|. 2.°B. angustifolia. R. 
Arboreous. Leaves linear-oblong, apex rounded. 
A native. of the south end of the Peninsula of India 
Flowers in June, and the fruit takes nearly one you en 
come to maturity. ; 
3. B. lancifolia. R. fe 
Arboreous. Leaves lanceolate, obtuse —— — ae 
entire. Panicles terminal. 
_A large, and tall tree, a native of Chittagong. The ten- 
der, unripe fruit is eaten by the natives in their curries. 
_WALSURA. (R.) ns 
-.. Calyx. five-toothed. Corol_five-petalled, Nectary 
double ; exterior subcylindric, bearing the anthers in is — 
eae ere a fleshy ring round the germ. Germ — 
superior, — cells two-seeded ; attachment inte- 
rior. Berry one>seeded. Embryo erect, no perisper™- 
1. W. robusta. R. geri 
_ Leaves quinate-pinna\te ; leaflets lanceolate. — ‘Panicles og 
‘terminal and axillary. . Filaments distinct, fconbene™ oe 
ly the | exterior nectary is) not found.) 2 
Upphing, the vernaculgr name in Silhet, where it grows 
to be one of their largest, timber trees; having a up’ 
seven feet in } a other arts in emeee 
tion. 
