634 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Cedrela. 
part smooth. Bractes to the primary branches of the panicle 
opposite, as in the Rubiacee ; the rest solitary.under each di- 
vision and sub-division. Calyx inferior, five-leaved; leaflets 
rather unequal and oval. Petals five, oblong, obtuse, spread- 
ing. Nectary acetabuliform. Filaments five, alternate with 
the petals, and shorter than they, inserted under the nectary. 
Anthers ovate. Germ superior, three-lobed, indeed almost 
separable, three-celled ; ovuda about eight in each cell, widely 
attached to the axis. Style length of the germ, three-groov- 
ed, Stigma three-lobed. Berry drupaceous, having the ap- 
pearance of a pome, of a roundish, three-lobed form, very 
fleshy, when ripe yellow, and almost smooth, size of a large 
medlar, three-celled. Seeds several in each cell, shape vari- 
ous, the most common roundish, reniform and considerably 
compressed, attached to the partition, Integument single, 
thick and of great hardness, in fact a perfect nut, exterior sur- 
face brown and highly polished. Perisperm conform to the 
‘seed, Embryo obliquely inferior. Cotyledons cordate, three- 
nerved, Radicle oval, obliquely centrifugal. 
CEDRELA. Schreb. gen. N. 383. 
Calyx five-toothed. Corol five-petalled. Capsules five- 
celled, five-valved, Seeds several in each cell, winged and 
imbricated on a pentagonal mecgyeetlas Embryo inverse, pe- 
apes scanty. | 
| This genus is very nearly related to Swietenia, the slsieh 
moths of distinction appear to. me to be the number of sta- 
mina, viz. in Cedrela five, inserted on five nectarial glands 
which embrace the base of the germ ; in Swietenia ten, insert- 
ed into the mouth of a sub-cylindrical nectarium, which em- 
braces the whole of the pistillum. In both, the seed vessel 
aptoned> are very ae te alike, Be 
