and some other Genera of Malayan Plants. 119 



sometimes five-parted; segments narrow. Stamens four, 

 sometimes five, alternate with the segments of the perianth, 

 short ; anthers roundish, two-lobed. Ovary small, three-, 

 sometimes four-celled ; each cell containing two ovula at- 

 tached to the inner angle. Style scarce any. Stigmas three, 

 sometimes four, fleshy, villous. Fruit about the size of a 

 China orange, with a thick rough rind, three-valved, three- 

 celled ; cells generally two-seeded, partitions opposite to 

 the valves. Seeds enveloped in a white juicy aril, as in the 

 Lansium, &c. Embryo contained in an ample albumen in- 

 verse. Cotyledons flat, foliaceous, cordate, subrotund. Ra- 

 dicle superior, short, clavate. 

 Obs. This is a fruit which ranks in point of taste and flavour 

 along with the Lans6h, &c., but is by no means so fre- 

 quently met with. The genus is most nearly allied to Pie- 

 rardia of Roxburgh, with which it agrees in general habit, 

 in foliage, in the mode of inflorescence, and in the structure 

 of the seeds, but differs in having a valvular fruit and in the 

 number of the stamens. The following description of the 

 Choopa, another highly esteemed Malayan fruit, which be- 

 longs to Pierardia, will illustrate the affinity between these 

 two genera. 



PIERARDIA. Roxh. 



Perianthium 4-partitum. Stamina octo, brevia. Ovarium 3-lo- 

 culare, loculis disporis. Stigma trifidum. Bacca corticata, 

 trilocularis, loculis 1 — 2-spermis. Semina arillo sapido tu- 

 nicata. Embryo inversus albumine inclusus. 



Arbor es, jloribus racemosis, foliis alternis simplicibus. 



Pierardia 



