594 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cordict. 



Drupe (in campanulata) ovate, pointed with the perma- 

 nent base of the style, and completely covered with the thin 

 dry permanent calyx ; instead of pulp, as in the other spe- 

 cies, there is a thick coat of a dry, firm, friable texture, scarce- 

 ly differing in colour from the nut. JVut five-ribbed, with 

 as many fluted grooves between, very hard, light brown, ad- 

 hering firmly to its friable covering, four-celled, though it is 

 rare to find all fertile, perforated up through the centre. Seed 

 solitary, ovate, pointed. Integument single, pure white, thick, 

 soft, and tender. Perisperm none. Embryo inverse, pure 

 white. Cotyledons deeply grooved, as in Sebestena officina- 

 lis, Gcert. sem. 1. 364. t. 76. p. 1. Plumula small, two-lobed. 

 Radicle roundish, superior. 



7. C. muluccana. R. 



Leaves long-petioled, ovate-cordate, obtuse, entire, smooth. 

 Panicles axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves ; calyx 

 gibbous, inside hairy. Style twice two-cleft. Drupe point- 

 ed, and nearly hid in the calyx ; nut four-celled. 



A native of the Moluccas. This species is often tetran- 

 drous. The filaments are short, and very hairy ; as is also 

 a rim round the mouth of the gibbous tube of the corol, where 

 they are inserted. 



8. C. polygama. R. 



Polygamous. Leaves ovate-cordate, entire, scabrous. Pa- 

 nicle terminal. Male generally tetrandrous, hermaphrodite 

 often pentandrous. 



A tree, a native of the mountains of Coromandel. Flowers 

 about the month of May, and the seeds ripen in August. 



Trunk tolerably straight, but short. Bark pretty smooth, 

 of a dark olive colour. Branches spreading ; young shoots 

 round and scabrous. Leaves alternate, petioled, from ovate 

 to cordate, entire, or slightly scollop-toothed ; when young 

 soft and villous, when old scabrous, from one to six inches 

 long, and about three-fourths of that broad. Stipules none. 



