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natives, as well as in those of the Europeans in India. 

 It flowers chiefly during the hot season. 



Trunk erect, generally from eight to twelve feet to the 

 Idwest branches. BarA; pretty smooth. Branches es.ceed- 

 ingly numerous, spreading, with the extremities ascend- 

 ing so as to form a most elegant, globular thick head. 

 Leaves alternate, short-petioled, approximated, declined 

 or depending, waved, very firm, both sides of a deep shin- 

 ing green ; from three to four inches long and one or one 

 and a half broad. Stipules small, lanceolate, concave, rus- 

 ty, caducous. Peduncles axillary, from one to eight, short, 

 clubbed, bowing, undivided, one-flowered. Flowers mid- 

 dle-sized, drooping, white and fragrant. Calyx inferior, 

 eight-leaved, in a double series ; leaflets lanceolate, the 

 four exterior ones leathery, larger, and permanent. Corol 

 one-petalled. Tube very short, fleshy. Border ; it may be 

 divided into a double series of segments, and a single nec- 

 tary, or a single series of segments, and a double nectary; 

 the first method I shall follow. I therefore consider the 

 border to be composed of a double series of segments ; 

 the exterior om consists of sixteen, spreading ; the interior 

 one of eight, generally contorted, and converging, all are 

 lanceolate, a little torn at their extremities. Nectary eight- 

 leaved, conical, ragged, hairy near the base, inserted al- 

 ternately with the filaments, into the mouth of the tube, 

 converging. F?7amewfs eight, short, hairy. ^w^Aers linear, 

 sharp pointed, below two-parted, converging. Ggrwi eight- 

 celled, with one ovula in each attached from their middle 

 to the lower end of the conic axis. The germ of Achras 

 Sapota is exactly the same, only from eight to ten-celled. 

 Berry oval, smooth, when ripe yellow, and edible, one or 

 more celled, according to the number of seeds that ripen, 

 which is generally one. Seed solitary, oblong, compress- 

 ed ; attached to the bottom of the cell ; covered with a 

 smooth, hard, thick integument, lined with a veined 

 membrane. Perisperm conform to the seed, two-lobed, 



