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very delicate rosj'^-colour, or ncarlj' Avhite, quinenncialh' im- 

 bricated in prefloration, fugacious, elliptical, emarginate with 

 rounded lobes, usually witli a minute projection at the bottom 

 of the nearly closed sinus, obtuse and clawless at the base, 

 entire, thin, delicate, with fine nerves obliquely running upwards, 

 about licm. long, 1-l^cm. broad. Stamens numerous, about 

 40 or more in number, erect, but the outer ones erect-patent, 

 inserted on the throat of the calyx-tube, unequal in length, the 

 innermost ones shortest, the outer longest ones about 8-9mm. 

 long, deciduous ; filament filiform, sharpened towards the tip, 

 mostly a little arcuate inwards, glabrous, at first white but 

 lately turned into rose-colour, one-nerved ; anther minute, 

 attached to the filament with its base of the connective, ovato- 

 orbicular or suborbicular, didymous, emarginate at the apex, 

 biauriculate at the base, with a short connective, 2-celled ; cells 

 oblong, obtuse at both ends, with membranaceous and smooth 

 wall, yellow, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally, about x|-,mm. 

 long ; pollen verj-^ minute, copious, yellow, cylindrical-oblong, 

 obtuse at both ends, smooth, longitudinallj^ 3-grooved. 

 Ovary solitarj^, superior, small, enclosing within the cah^x-tube, 

 ovate, sessile, erect, smooth, glabrous, light-green, one-celled, 

 one-carpellarj^ thickly walled, with a suture line on the ventral 

 side, about li-2mm. long ; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous, 

 minute, narrowly ovate, rounded at the inferior end, anatropous, 

 with an ovoid-oblong nucellus ; style 1, terminal on the ovary, 

 erect, straight or somewhat curved, equal to the stamens in 

 height or a little lower or higher than them, cylindrical-filiform, 

 smooth, glabrous, very light green, about 1cm. or more or 

 lesser long ; stigma terminal, dilated, rounded, compressed, 

 convex on the surface with a short furrow reaching to a 

 margin through the centre, finely rough and moist on the 

 surface. Drupes usually 1-4 in number to a peduncle, each 

 supporting by a strict pedicel which is erect-patent and slightly 

 enlarged at the top, subovato-sphasrical or sphaerical, somewhat 

 flat at the base, with a suture line on the ventral side, 8-lOmm. 

 each way, smooth, glabrous, green when young, shaded with 

 a reddish tint on sun side when nearly matured, and then deeply 



