594 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Cordia.: 
Drupe (in campanulata) ovate, pointed with the perma- 
nent base of the style, and completely covered with the thin 
dry permanent calyx; instead of pulp, as in the other spe- 
cies, there is a thick coat of a dry, firm, friable texture, scarce- 
ly differing in colour from the nut, Mut five-ribbed, with 
as many fluted grooves between, very hard, light brown, ad- 
~ hering firmly to its friable covering, four-celled, though it is 
rare to find all fertile, perforated up through the centre. Seed 
solitary, ovate, pointed. Integument single, pure white, thick, 
soft, and tender. Perisperm none. Embryo inverse, pure 
white. Cotyledons deeply grooved, as in Sebestena officina- 
lis, Gert, sem. 1, 364. t. 76. p. 1. Plumula small, two-lobed. 
Radicle roundish, superior. 
7. C. muluecana, R. 
Leaves long-petioled, ovate-cordate, obtuse, entire, smooth. 
Panieles axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves ; calyx 
gibbous, inside hairy. Style twice two-cleft.. Drupe point- 
ed, and nearly hid in the calyx ; nut four-celled. 
A native of the Moluccas. This species is often tetran- 
drous. - The filaments are short, and very hairy; as is also 
a rim round the mouth of the gibbous tube of the corol, where 
they are inserted. ' 
28°C: polygama. R. 
PE rl oe saferssntecbrsa, entire eumicies Pa- 
often pentand 
A tree, a "tintlve of f the 1 dsbatptainn of Carornandel. Flowers. 
about the month of May, and the seeds ripen in August. 
Trunk tolerably straight, but short. Bark pretty smooth, 
of a dark olive colour. Branches spreading; young shoots 
round and scabrous, Leaves alternate, petioled, from ovate 
to cordate, entire, or slightly scollop-toothed ; when young 
soft and villous, when old scabrous, from one to six inches’ 
nd about three-fourths of that broad, Stipules none. 
