Spondias. DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, 451 
2. A. bilimbi. Willd. 2. 749. 
Leaves pinnate, many paired ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate. 
Fruit oblong, obtuse-angled. 
Bilimbi. Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 45 and 46. 
Blinbingun teres. Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 36. 
This pretty little tree I have only found in acultivat- 
ed state ; where it is indigenous I cannot say. In Bengal 
it is uncommon ; and in the Botanic garden flowers in 
March and April, and the fruit ripens in about two 
months, For the uses of the fruit of these two species I 
refer to Rumphius. 
SPONDIAS. Schreb. gen. n. 784. 
Calyx five-toothed. Corol five-petalled. Germ supe- 
rior, five-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attachment superior. 
Drupe with a five-celled nut. Seed solitary. Embryo in- 
verse, without perisperm. 
1. S. mangifera. Willd, 2. 751. 
Leaflets four or five-pairs, oblong, mucronate. Pani- 
cles diffuse. Nut oblong, nearly smooth on the outside. 
Ambalam. Rheed. Mal. 1. t. 50. 
- Amrataca. Asiat. Res. 4, p. 284. 
Hind. and Beng. Amra. , 
Teling. Amatum, 
Ponastia. Juss. Genera. plant. 410. 
Spondius amara, Lamark Encycl. 4. p- 245. 
Mangifera pinnata. Linn. suppl. plant. p. 56, 
This is a large tree, amongst the mountains of Coro- 
mandel, but in gardens where it is frequently found culti- 
Vated, it is of a smaller size, and low. Flowering time 
the beginning of the hot season, when the leaves come 
out. The fruit ripens during the cold season, and then its 
leaves are deciduous, 
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