. 418 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Fagara, 
sembled to settle disputes, &c. and maun, means 'trees of the 
largest size. Under the shade of this tree the Hill people as- 
semble to examine, agitate, and determine their matters of, 
public concern, deliver discourses, &c. 
_ It is a very large tree, a native of the mountainous parts © 
of the coast. Leaves deciduous during the cold season ; they 
come out again, with the flowers about the beginning of the 
hot season, 
Trunk straight, Bark corky, deeply cracked, slight gray. 
Branches numerous, spreading to a great extent. Prickles _ 
very numerous, scattered over every part of the tree, small, 
very sharp, incuryed ; on the old wood they acquire a coni- 
eal solid . base. comet about the extremities of the branch- 
lets, abruptly pinnate, from twelve to twenty. inches long, 
Leaflets opposite, from eight to'sixteen pairs, short-petioled, 
oblong or lanceolate, waved, attenuated >to a narrow point, 
entire, smooth, about five or six inches long, and two broad, 
all nearly equal in size, with nerves which divide them un- 
equally, the exterior division being: twice’as broad as the in- 
terior, . Petioles round, smooth, a little channelled. Stipules: 
none. Punicles terminal, and from the exterior arils, fre- 
quently .cross-armed, particularly the extreme ramifications. 
Peduncles .and. pedicels, smooth, sometimes compressed. 
Practes minute, falling. . Flowers very minute, yellow, Ca- 
lyx four-leaved. . Filaments shorter than the petals. Style 
thick, length of the filaments. Stigma tapering. Capsule 
round, size of a pea, aie one-celled,: egeeiedoernnne 
round, glossy black. . pessee phan weeks 
- Obs, The unripe apeniaoia are like opal Sitios, ies are, 
coentalli aromatic, and taste like the skin of a fresh oranges 
The ripe seeds taste exactly like black pepper, but weaker; 
from this circumstance I conceive this may be F. Piperita, 
yet I have always found the leaflets entire. The bark, I 
mean the inner lamina, is also acrid, with a mixtureof 
