638 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Careya. 
in each cell. Style the length of the stamens. Stigma obs- 
curely four-lobed. Berry spherical, smooth, of the size of an 
orange, the whole substance, the seeds excepted, of a firm, 
yellowish fleshy consistence, intermixed with a few fibres. 
Seeds a few scattered through the pulp of the berry, shape 
various but generally oblong, and about the size of a field 
bean. Integument single, tough, smooth, of a light-brown, 
Perisperm conform to the seed, hard, amygdaline. _Em- 
bryo simple, (as in the Guttiferous seeds) lanceolate, 
extending the whole length of the seed. | When vege- 
tation commences the radicle issues from the small end 
of the seed, close to the umbilicus; and the scaly pla- 
mula from the opposite end; the embryo furnishing the 
centre, or ligneous part, and the perisperm the cortical 
part of the young plant. 
2. C. arborea. R. Ind. pl. 3. N. 218. 
Arboreous. Flowers sessile. Leaves oval, serrulate- 
dentate, Berries ovate and crowned with the erect seg- 
ments of the calyx. : 
Pelou. Rheed. Mal. 3. t 36. 
Teling. Kumbi. 
yi ee Pootta-tanni-marum, 
oa A tree of immense size, growing on the mountains of 
Coromandel, &c, where it blossoms during the hot season, 
and the seed ripens about three or four months afier. 
8. C. herbaceous. R. Ind. pl. 3. n. 217. . 
Herbaceous. Flowers peduncled, Leaves obovate-ci- 
neate, serrulate. 
Bhoomi darimba the Sanscrit name. 
Beng. Bhooi dalim. | 
_ A small herbaceous plant, with a de cia’ permanent. 
root, which shoot from short, perishable stems, or branches | 
of only a few inches in length ; a native. of the interior 
parts of Bengal, where it was found by Pies Wilham 
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