Gmelina. _ DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 87 
the number of fertile cells, which is generally one or two 
only. Seed solitary, obovate-oblong, a little compressed, n- 
tegument single, brown, spongy. Perisperm none. Embryo 
erect, Cotyledons conform to the seed, obcordate. eae 
two-lobed. pair minute, inferior, 
4, G, periine Willd. ill, p. 313. 
Shrubby, spinous. Leaves sub-opposite, oval, and some- 
what lobed, smooth, .Racemes terminal, and from the forks 
of the branchlets. .\Bractes small, caducous, | Fruit oval. 
- Jambosa silvestris ahha Ala Amb. i. P. 129. t. - 40. 
_-'Teling..\Goomoodoo,. = 5) 
Is one of the most sii ta bitty. Sasnigltceneah 
place over the coast of Coromandel, and in flower and fruit 
all the year round. ' 
' Trunk, 1 cannot say it has any shing like a distinct one, as 
Lhave always found it in the state of a large, ramous shrub. 
Branches numerous, very irregular... Thorns axillary; oppo- 
site, horizontal, leaf-bearing, Leaves on the young shoots 
generally opposite, on the woody branchlets fascicled, petio- 
led, broad oval, or obcordate, irregularly lobed, both sides 
smooth and shining, from one to an inch and a half long, and 
about one broad.’ Racemes from the divisions of the branches, 
or-terminal. Flowers large, yellow, opposite, approximate, 
drooping. Bractes lanceolate, small, concave, caducous. 
Corol the upper lip largest. Azthers, all the four are two- 
parted. Stigma two-parted, the lower four times longer and 
revolute. © — —— 1 nest two" or anv’ of home 
abortive. — 
_ The only use this shrub i is applied to, is a tot fences and be 
8G —— Corom. pl. 2. 162. sa - 
