416 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Inocarpus, 
two, three, or four irregular portions. Nuts or seeds gene- 
rally from one to four, consequently their shape varies’ 
much, attached asin the germ. Integuments two; the ex-_ 
terior one somewhat nuciform, pretty smooth, dark brown, 
the inferior one membranaceous. Perisperm conform to 
the seed, of a firm texture, and dull whitish grey colonr, 
Embryo erect, nearly as long as the perisperm. Cotyle- 
dons ovate-lanceolate. Radicle oblong, inferior. _ 
2. S. benjoin. Willd, 2.623. Dryand. in Phil. Trans. 7 
308. f. 12. i 
Leaves alternate, oblong, tapering to an obtuse eile 
racemes (panicle,) axillary, compound, not villous, one- 
seeded. pes 
Benjamin, or Benzoin, Marsden’s Stimatra, p- 123. 
-Luban the Bengalee, and Arabic name. of the resin, 
though in fact this name ought to be applied to the resin of 
my Boswellia thurifera, which is the real olibanum oF 
Frankincense, of she ancients. iv 
Suis eer rs 
Galysx. bidentate. Corol infundibuliform } ‘cole 
Stamina ina double series from the tube, Germ superiors 
one-celled ; one-seeded; attachment superior. _ Drupé 
one-seeded, Embryo inverse; no perisperm. - @ 
A, edulis. Linn. suppl. 239, 
Gajanus. Rumph. Amb.1. p. 170. t..65.. bs 
A native of the Molucca Islands; and from thence i2- 
troduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1798, 
where in ten years the largest of them was twenty-five OF 
thirty feet high ; they blossom during the hot season, ow 
ripen their fruit in August and September. ._- ahs 
Trunk straight. Bark smooth ; ofa inane 
Branches spreading with numerous, bifarious, flexuoser 
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