AURANTIACE^. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 105. 



BERGERA. 



Flowers and carpels unsymmetrical. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 

 5, spreading. Stamens 10: filaments distinct, subulate, com- 

 pressed below : anthers ovate. Ovary oval, 2-celled ; with one 

 ovule in each cell, attached by its middle to the middle of the 

 axis. Style long, thick. Fruit baccate, usually l-celled and 

 1 -seeded. Seed surrounded with mucilage : seed-coat mem- 

 branous, glabrous : cotyledons glabrous, conspicuously auricled 

 at their base: radicle villous. — A small tree with pinnate 

 leaves. W. and A. 



313. B. Konigii Linn. mant. 565. JRoxb. corom. ii. t. 112. 

 /. bid. i. 375. DC. prodr. i. 537. W. and A. i. 94. — Moun- 

 tainous coast of Coromandel. 



A small tree, with the bark of an alder. Leaves stalked, unequally 

 pinnate; leaflets alternate, short-stalked, ovate-lanceolate, rhomboidal, 

 oblique, smooth or downy, somewhat serrated. Corymbs terminal, 

 compound, shorter than the leaves, spreading. Bracts pressed close 

 to the pedicels, small, solitary, lanceolate, deciduous. Flowers small 

 white. — Bark and root used as stimulants by the native physicians of 

 India; externally employed against the bites ot'poisonous animals; green 

 leaves prescribed to be eaten raw in dysentery: also bruised and 

 applied externally to cure eruptions. Roxb. 



FERONIA. 



Flowers often polygamous. Calyx flat, 5-toothed. Petals 5 

 (occasionally 4 or 6) spreading. Stamens 10: filaments dilated 

 and united at the base : anthers linear-oblong, tetragonal. Ovary 

 seated on the elevated disk, 5- (occasionally 6-) celled : ovules 

 numerous in each cell. Style scarcely any. Stigma oblong. 

 Fruit baccate, with a hard rind, 5-celled, many-seeded. Seeds 

 immersed in a fleshy pulp. — Trees. Leaves pinnated : leaflets 

 5-7, nearly or quite sessile, obovate, very slightly crenulated, 

 pellucid-dotted along the margin, inconspicuously so elsewhere ; 

 common petiole slightly winged. Racemes lax, few-flowered, 

 terminal and axillary. W. and A. 



314. F. elephantum Corr. in Linn, trans, v. 224. JRoxb. corom. 

 ii. t. 141. DC. prodr. i. 538. W. and A. i. 96. — Anisifolius 

 Humph, ii. t. 43. — East Indies. (Elephant- or wood-apple ; 

 Capittha As. Res.) 



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