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bout tHe ends of the branchlets, short-petioled, narrow, 

 cuneiform, entire, acute, smooth on both sides, but paler 

 underneath ; length one or two feet, and the breadth from 

 three to six inches. Petioles short and thick, and arm- 

 ed generally with two subulate, inoffensive, incurved, 

 thorn-like bodies on each side of the margin. Stipules 

 no other than the last mentioned subulate bodies, on the 

 petioles. 



Male. Panicles axillary, single, much shorter than 

 the leaves. F/oi<;ers numerous, small, dull white. Bractes 

 small, ferruginous. Calyx five-sided ; angles somewhat 

 sharp. Corol flat, to the base five-parted, or it may be 

 called five-petalled. Segments oblong, villous. Filaments 

 five, shorter than the corol. Anthers incumbent. 



Female-Hermaphrodite on a separate tree. Pani- 

 cles, hractes, calyx, and corol as in the male. Stamina as 

 in the male, but much smaller, and with minute, seem- 

 ingly abortive anthers. Germ inferior, a little hairy, with 

 one compressed cell containing one compressed ovula, at- 

 tached to one side of the top of its cell. Styles three, re- 

 curved. Stigmas crescent-shaped, a little hairy. Berry 

 inferior, naked, exactly ovate, a little compressed, size 

 of a large olive, smooth, when ripe yellow, one-celled, e- 

 valvular. Cortex rather thick, and containing between its 

 soft lamina, numerous cells, filled with a black, rather 

 thick, acrid fluid as in the common marking nut, or Ana- 

 cardium. Seed conform to the berry. Integument single, 

 membranaceous. Perisperm none. Embryo conform to 

 the seed, transverse. Cotyledons equal, ovate, yellow- 

 ish. Corcle lateral. Plumula hairy, acute. Radicle ob- 

 long, inverse, attached to one edge of the cotyledons, 

 considerably below their apex and corresponding with 

 the attachment of the ovula in the germ. 



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