830 DIOECIA ICOSANDRIA. Gelonium, 
two or three-celled. Seeds solitary, arilled. Embryo in- 
verse, and furnished with a perisperm. 
1. G. bifarium. Willd. iv. 831. 
Leaves entire. Capsule two-celled. Stamina about fif- 
teen. 
Of this elegant small tree, I have only met with two in the 
Company’s Botanic garden, one of them bears male, and the 
other female flowers, during the months of February and 
March. The buds are incrusted with yellow resin. 
Trunk straight, as yet small, Branches numerous, spread- 
ing; branchlets bifarious, the whole forming a very regular, 
oval head. Bark ofa very light ash colour, and smooth ; the 
height of the trees about thirty feet. Leaves alternate, short- 
petioled, bifarious, oblong, perfectly entire and very smooth 
on both sides, permanent. Stipules small, obtuse. lowers 
small, yellow, several on a very short common peduncle oppo- 
site to the leaves, each supported by its own proper pedicel, 
in the male most numerous. Bractes some very small ones 
at the base of the pedicels, these as well as the stipules, flower- 
buds, and germs, have frequently small bits of a yellow 
resin adhering to them. Mare, Calya five-leaved ; leaf- 
lets unequal, orbicular, concave, permanent. Corol none. 
Filaments about five, as long as the calyx, inserted into a 
glandular, convex receptacle. Anthers oval, two-lobed. 
FemMALe FLOWERS on a different plant. Calyx asin the male, 
permanent. Corol none. Nectary a large, crenulated, yel- 
low ring surrounding the base of the germ. Germ superior, 
two-lobed, two-celled, with one ovulum in each cell attached 
to the top of the axis, Styles scarcely any. Stigma four-lobed, 
Capsule dicoccous, fleshy, smooth, yellow, two-celled, two- 
valved, Seeds solitary, round, enveloped i in an entire, juicy, 
white aril. Integuments besides the aril two ; the exterior one 
brown, smooth, and brittle ; the inner one (Sn eg Pe- 
risperm conform to the seed, pure white, amygdaline. Em- 
bryo inverse, Cotyledons often as large as the perisperm, round. 
