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398 _DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Swietenia. 
none, Anthers sessile, round the inside of the mouth 
ofthe nectary. Germ ovate, five-celled, with two seeds 
in each, attached from their apex to the aril. Style 
the length of the nectary. Stigma large, with a five-point- 
ed apex. Drupe ovate, the size of a large olive, smooth, 
of a yellowish green within, when ripe, one-celled. | Nut 
oblong, a perforation at each end, which passes through 
the centre ; apex deeply five-toothed, thick and hard, five- 
celled, five-valved, for by age and exposure they divide 
spontaneously. Seed solitary, lanceolar. Integuments 
two ; the exterior one highly polished, black; the inner 
one membranaceous. Perisperm none. Embryo inverse. 
Cotyledons lanceolar, Plumzla two-lobed. Radicle short, 
superior. , 
SWIETENIA. Schreb. gen. n. 723. 
Calyx five-toothed. Cuvrol five-petalled. Nectary ith! 
cylindric, bearing the anthers in its mouth. Germ supe 
rior, from three to five-celled ; cells:many-seeded ; attach- 
ment interior. | Capsule from three to five-celled, from 
three to five-valved. Seeds imbricated, and winged. Ee: 
bryo inverse, no perisperm. 
1. S. febrifuga. Willd. 2. 557. R-_ Corom, pl. 18. t. 1% 
Leaflets from three to four pair, opposite, oval, and ob- 
long, obtuse. Panicle terminal, diffuse. Capsules a, 
celled, opening from the apex. | 
Teling. Soymida,. 
- Beng. Rohina. 
- Tam. Wond-marum. - 
_ A native of the mountains of India. It flowers during 
the hot season. The bark is a powerful febrifuge, and am 
excellent substitute for Peruvian bark, which was one of 
Sir William Jones’s desiderata ; see pape capa — a 
180. 
