Sandoricum. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA., 393 
A most elegant tree, having a straight trunk, about ten 
or twelve feet in height, covered with smooth, greenish 
bark; the tree this measurement is taken from is in the 
Company’s Botanic garden at Calcutta, about twenty-four 
years old, eighty inches in circumference, four feet above 
the ground, supporting a large, globular, dense head ; it 
flowers in February, and the fruit ripens in the rainy sea- 
son. ae 
Leaves alternate, petioled, ternate, about a foot long. 
Leaflets ovate, entire, having the upper side smooth, ex- 
cept when young, and the lower one downy, the veins pa- 
rallel, from five to seven inches long, and from three to 
four broad. Petioles round, when young downy. Stipules 
none. Panicles axillary, diffuse, shorter than the leaves, 
Bractes oblong. Flowers numerous, small, yellow. Calyx 
beneath, campanulate, five-parted; divisions rounded,dow- 
ny. Petals five, linear-oblong, expanding. Nectary dou- 
ble ; the exterior one cylindric, with a ten-toothed mouth ; 
the interior one is one-fourth the length of the exterior one, 
enveloping the germ and base of the style, with its mouth 
about ten-toothed. Filaments none. Anthers ten, linear, 
affixed to the inside of the exterior nectary. Germ supe- 
‘tior, five-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the 
upper end of the axis. Berry nearly round, size of a 
small orange, slightly villous, when ripe yellow ; pulp in 
_ large quantity, fleshy, acid, and edible, five-celled, but the 
partitions are often incomplete, when the seeds come to 
maturity. Seeds one in each cell, oblong, each enveloped 
in its own proper aril, as in the guttifere ; aril replete 
with tough woolly fibres, which adhere firmly to the exte- 
rior, tough, parchment like integument ; the inner integu- 
ment brown, polished and spongy; attachment from the 
upper and inner edge to the upper end of the axis, as in 
the germ. Perisperm none. Embryo straight, inverse. — 
Cotyledons two, conform to the seed, ents over 2 
_ Radicle short, clavate, papier. bs: BOE 
