Xanthochymus. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 631 
each attached in the middle of the axis. Berry supe- 
rior, one-celled, with from one to five seeds, each enve- 
loped in a pulpy aril. Embryo simple, erect, in ampie 
perisperm. 
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Polygamous. Leaves opposite oblong. Flowers fas- 
cicled, lateral. Corols globular. Fruit oval, obtuse, 
frem one to five-seeded. | 
A native of the Molucca islands; from thence intro- 
duced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta as a species of 
Mangosteen. Flowering time in Bengal June and July. 
The fruit ripens about the beginning of the cool season. 
‘The trees in the Botanic garden are but small, being 
only cight years old ; but very handsome, and the fruit pa- 
latable. Trunk quite straight to the top ofthe tree. Bark 
smooth, olive-coloured. Branches and branchlets oppo- 
site, expanding, the latter grooved and keeled ; the height 
of trees eight years old about ten feet. Leaves opposite, 
short-petioled, oblong, entire, often pointed; texture hard, 
both surfaces polished, about six inches long, and from 
two to three broad. Petioles short, transversely wrin- 
kled at the base ; on the inside a fleshy ligule, or protu- 
berance, which is I believe common to the whole of this 
order (Guttifero.) Stipules 1 none, - Flowers in small fas- 
cicles, from the axills of one or two-year old branchlets, 
peduncled, ofa middling size, or nearly globular, greenish 
white, inodorous.. Calyx of from four to five or six un- 
€qual, round concave leaves, as long as the stamina, con- 
tracted into a globe, with a small opening at the apex 
when most expanded. Nectary in the male, a truncated 
porous, yellow body, with five lobes projecting between 
the insertion of the five filaments. In the hermaphrodite 
are five yellow porous glands, alternate with the filaments 
round: the base of ‘the germ. Filaments in both, ate five 
curved, broad, flat bodies divided at the apex into Six, 
