638 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eleodendrum. 
Jong, by one or two broad. Stipules none. Petioles cylin- 
driec, somewhat villous, Panic/es one from each of the lower 
axills, nearly as long as the leaves, very ramous and spread- 
ing ; like the young shoots very downy. Flowers numerous, 
minute, caducous. Bractes very minute, caducous, Calyx 
five-parted, small, downy on the outside ; segments rounded. 
Petals tive, oyal, concave. Nectary urceolate, rather 
shorter than the petals, mouth five-toothed. Filaments five, 
very short, inserted on the inside of the bottom of the belly 
of the nectary. Anthers sagittate, and completely hid m 
the nectary. Germ semi-superior, three-celled; ced/s with 
one or two ovula attached to the axis, Style short and thick. 
Stigma turbinate, truncate, six-grooved. Berry round-oval, 
rather more than an inch in diameter, three-celled, contain- 
ing seldom more than one fertile seed, most of the ovula be- 
ing in gencral abortive. Cortex firm, rather dry, covered 
with a rough, brownish gray mealiness, Seed solitary, oval, 
inserted in a complete thick, fleshy, lucid, edible aril, like 
that of the Lichee of China. Integument sirigle, brown, ad- 
hering more firmly to the aril than the seed. Perisperm none. 
Embryo transverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed, equal 
with the surface, furrowed. Corculum transverse, hairy. 
Radicle short, pointing to the umbilicus, ’ 
_.. ELHODENDRUM. Schreb. gen. N. 385. 
_ Corol five-petalled. Germ two-celled, two-seeded ; attach- 
ment inferior. Drupe superior, oval. Nut two-celled. me 
bryo erect, without perisperm, | Hs 
1. E. glaucum. Persoon. Synops, ii. 241. — Corom. 3 
ii, 2. eo 
~ Leaves opposite, ‘dinide serrate, | Panicle slay, 
 Sehreb: na albens: Wiutd. — 1092. 
