Vareca, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 647 
ing at right angels, Peduncles three times the length of the 
petioles, round, smooth. #/owers small, yellow, not very 
numerous, Calyz five-leaved; Jeaflets orbicular, unequal, 
caducous, Petals five, oblong, spreading. Nectary alarge, 
fleshy, pentagonal ring surrounding the base of the germ, 
into its angles the filaments are inserted. Filaments five, 
shorter than the petals, spreading. Anthers two-lobed. 
Germ superior, conical. Style shorter than the stamens, 
thick. Stigma simple. Berry obiong, succulent, red, smooth, 
one-celled. «Seeds one, or two. 
Is nearly allied to Eleodendrum glaucum in habit, but in 
that the drupe with a single, very thick, hard nut will alone 
be sufticient to distinguish them. } 
. The fresh bark ef the root, rubbed with plain water, is by 
the natives applied externally to remove almost every sort of 
swelling. It is a very sirong astringent, pata scarcely 
aay other sensible quality, 
_ VARECA. Geert. 
Calyx five-leaved, or five-parted. Corol five-petalled. 
Germ superior, one-celled; ovula numerous, their attach- 
ment parietal. Berry one-celled, Seeds a few, inserted on 
the three parietal receptacles, AE LO AO PLING 
1. V. moluccana, R. 
_ Leaves alternate, lanceolar. Peduncles axillary, many-~ 
flowered. Filaments free. 
A small tree, from fifteen to twenty feet in height, a native 
of the Molucca islands, and from thence introduced into the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1798, where it blossoms in Oc- 
tober and November, and again in March, April, and May; 
but has not yet, though now fourteen years in Bengal, pro- 
duced even well 0 ii fruit, so that the genus is still doubt- 
* falktvice ess 
Trunk erect. eictiins numerous, between erect and pa 
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