6z OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



leaf is pinnated, with lanceolated, entire fa~ 



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Mammea Afiatica, a great tree, gene- 

 rally flands on the ihore and hangs over the 

 water. Almoft every tree, particular!) thif, 

 was full of great black ants, for which reafqn 

 I could not ealily mount the branches ; how- 

 ever I was forced to do fo, before I could 

 make the following defcription : 



The calyx is biphyllous, with great, oval, 

 concave, perfiftent leaves, which include the 

 corolla ; this confifls of four oval, clofed 

 petals, which are deciduous at the fame time 

 with the filaments, and are like them longer 

 than the calyx : the filaments are numerous, 

 filiform, bent, fnorter than the Jlylus, but 

 longer than the corolla and the calyx, and at 

 the bottom joined with the petals : the antherce 

 are almoft round and fmall : the germen is be- 

 low the corolla; it is obovated : the jlylus is 

 very long : the fligma pointed : the tree is 

 very ramofe, and bends down with its top : 

 the little branches are round : the leaves grow 

 in bunches at the extremity of the little 

 branches ; they are entire, without ftalks, 

 linooth, carnofe or pulpy, famewhat crenated 



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