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Trewia, DIOECIA POLYANDRIA. 837 
villous bodies. Germ superior, round, slightly five-lobed, 
one-celled, containing numerous ovula attached to five 
parietal receptacles, as in Jussieu’s Capparides, to which this 
will no doubt belong. Styles five, shorter ; stigmas large, sa- 
gittate-cordate, Berry globular, of the size of a shaddock, 
one-celled. Cortex thick, rough, ash-coloured on the surface, 
internally brown, and composed of rays pointing to the cen- 
tre of the berry. Receptacle in the ripe state uncertain. 
Seeds numerous, of the size of large filberts, immersed in pulp, 
various in shape, but in general nearly oval, smooth, light 
gray. Integuments two; the interior one membranaceous, 
Perisperm conform to the seed, fleshy, of a whitish gray. E’m- 
bryo white. Cotyledons sub-reniform. Radicle oval, eae 
tion various, 
The ‘seeds of this tree, called Chaulmoogree, or Petar- 
kura by the natives, are employed by them in the cure of 
cutaneous disorders. When freed from the integuments, 
they are beat up with clarified butter, into a soft mass, and 
in this state applied thrice a day to the parts affected. 
: TREWIA. Linn. agi cltcdee 
Mate, Calyx from three to four-leaved. Corol none. 
Stamina numerous, FEemate, Calyx beneath, from three to. 
four-toothed, Corol none. Style four-cleft. Drupe four- 
celled, with a single, one-seeded nut in each. Embryo in- 
yoo and amply furnished with a perisperm, : 
Tr. nudiflora, Willd. iv. 834, 
Leaves opposite, cordate. Flowers axillary; the male 
ones on a pendulous raceme, the female ones solitary. 7 
Tetragastris ossea. Gert. Fruct. ii, 130, t. 109. 7:5. 
Canschi. Rheed. Mal. i, t, 42. 
Rottlera indica, Willd. Gett, Diar. Hist, Nat. i i. 2 1.3. 
Beng. Pitali, 
A native of various parts of India; in Bie it is common 
