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Berry reddish -purple, with a juicy acid flesh, in which 

 are imbedded 8-10 pyrence, according to the number of 

 the styles. 



The fruit of this, though rather too acid to be eaten raw, 

 is esteemed for tarts and pies. 



^ ROTTLERA ALBA. Roxh. 



R. alba; foliis rhomboideo-ovatis subtus incanis, paniculis 

 terminalibus laxis, fructibus stellato-pilosis spinis molli- 

 bus echinatis. 



Baleangin. Malay. 



Sumatra and Pulo Penang. — A tree of moderate size : 

 branches roundish, furfuraceous with appressed stellated 

 hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, rhomboidal-ovate, often 

 approaching to 3-lobed, long-acuminate, rounded and bi- 

 glandular at the base where the petiole is inserted within the 

 margin, remotely denticular towards the apex, smooth and 

 green above, hoary and tomentose beneath. The young 

 leaves have stellate deciduous hairs on their upper surface. 

 Petioles long. Stipules none. Panicles terminal or from the 

 bifurcations of the branches, peduncled, lax, and drooping. 

 Flowers small, numerous, shortly pedicelled. Bracteas small, 

 and, together with the peduncles and calyx, sprinkled with 

 furfuraceous tomentum. 



Male. Calyx 3-phyllous, leaflets ovate, acute. Stamens 

 numerous in the centre of the flower. Anthers subrotund. 



Female. Calyx 4, sometimes 5-partite, erect, laciniae 



acute. Styles 3, diverging, hirsute above. Stigmas simple. 



Fruit tricoccous, beset with soft flexible spines, and covered 



with stellated hairs, 3-seeded. Seeds subrotund, attached to 



>Vy, the superior and internal angle of the cells. 



( To be continued in the future Numbers of this Work.) 



