Walsura. - DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 387 
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It flowers in March and April, and the seed ripens in 
June. 
Young shoots rough with scabrous specks, but void 
of pubescence. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, 
some ternate ; from six to nine inches long. Leaflets 
generally five. The pairs opposite, from oblong to lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, entire, smooth ; from four to five 
inches long, and from one to two broad. Petioles marked 
with the same sort of elevated rough white specks that 
are to be found on the young shoots. Panicles terminal, 
and from the exterior axills, length of the leaves, much 
crowded, and very dense ; their numerous ramifications 
scarcely villous. Bractes minute. Flowers numerous, ra- 
ther small, ‘and white. Calyx five-parted ; segments 
nearly equal, small, and’ oval. Petals five, oblong, 
spreading, a little villous. Nectary a large fleshy crenate 
ring round the base of the germ, within the filaments.’ 
Filaments ten, broad towards the base, but not in the 
least united, tapering regularly to the apex, which is’ 
very slender ; they are inserted under the exterior part of 
the nectary, and are alternately a little shorter. Anthers 
small, oval. Germ superior, ovate, two-celled; ovula 
two in each cell, attached to the middle of the partition. 
Style short. Stigma peltate. Berry oval, size of a small 
olive, resting on the permanent corol, calyx, and stamina, 
One-celled. Cortex rather thin, and bright grey. Seed so- 
litary, conform to the berry, before maturity or when im- 
perfectly ripe, a pretty large quantity of a clear, very’ 
succulent exterior envelope, or aril isfound,but when ripe 
it is searcely to be seen. Integuments besides the aril, 
‘Single. Perispermnone. Embryo straight, inverse. Co- 
tyledons conform to the seed. Radicle obovate-truncate, 
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~ 2. W. piscidia, R. : 
Lies subternate ; leaflets subternate obtomis: 0 
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