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Inocarpus, - DECANDRIA MONOGYNTA. 417 
beautifully drooping branchlets. Leaves alternate, bifa- 
rious, short-petioled, permanent, oblong, emarginate, en- 
tire, both sides polished, and of a deep shining green 
colour ; from six to twelve inches long, and abont three 
orfour broad. Stipules minute, caducous, Spikes axil- 
lary, sessile, solitary, or in pairs, much shorter than the 
leaves. In the Bengal plant smooth. Flowers numer- 
ous, small, very pale yellow, fragrant. Calyx bilabi- 
ate. Corol funnel-shaped. Border five-cleft ; segments 
lanceolate. Filaments ten, ina double series, hid in the 
tube, and inserted intoit. Anthers oval, those of the - 
upper series even with the mouth of the tube of the co- 
tol, Germ superior, oval, one-celled, containing one- 
seed, attached to the top of the cell, immediately under 
the stigma, for there is no style. | Drupe obliquely oval, 
the size of a goose’s egg, a little compressed laterally, 
smooth, when ripe yellow, and of a tough fibrous texture, 
one-celled, two-valved, opening round the margin into 
two equal portions. Nué solitary, thick, two-valved, 
Ohe-celled, and of a hard, tough fibrous consistence. 
‘Seed single, conform to the nut, and attached to it imme- 
diately under the stigma. Integuments two, the exterior one 
brown, firmer and thicker than the inner one, and beau- 
tifully marked with numerous, ramous, veins ; the inner 
“One membranaceous. Perisperm none, Embryo inverse. 
Cotyledons two, conform to the seed, amygdaline. Pluie 
“mula, in seeds beginning to vegetate, it consists of several 
_imbricate scales. Radicle superior, cylindric, and lodged 
Immediately within the umbilicus, under the stigma, 
The rapid growth of this very beautiful, ever green 
tree, and the elegant shape of its spreading, dense crown 
of deep creen foliage, renders it one of the most ornamen- 
tal presents Bengal has got from the Molucca Islands. 
The kernel is certainly edible, but by no means palata- 
iil As yet re can s nothing of the quality of od ase < 
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