Cyminosma. octandria monogynia. 239 



from one to six, erect or spreading, nearly as long as the 

 petioles, clubbed, undivided, one-flowered. Flowers con- 

 siderably smaller than the former. Calyx inferior, six- 

 leaved, three interior and three exterior ; these last men- 

 tioned three are leathery. CoroZ one-petalled. Tube very 

 short. Border hke Elengi, consisting of two rows of seg- 

 ments, the exterior twelve, the interior six, all spreading. 

 Nectary situated between the filaments, as in the former, 

 but spreading, shorter and more deeply indented. Fila- 

 ment six, spreading. Anthers oval. Pistillum as in Elengi, 

 but six-celled. Berry the size and shape of an olive, 

 yellow, rarely more than one-seeded. Perisperm, embryo, 

 &c. as in Elengi. 



CYMINOSMA. Gcert. 

 Ca/i/a; four-leaved. CoroZ four-petalled. jBerry supe- 

 rior, four-celled. Seed solitary. Embryo inverse, and fur- 

 nished with a perisperm. 



C. pedunculafa. R. 



Jambolifera pedunculata. Willd. 2. 326. VaJil. Symb. 

 3. 52. ^ 61. good. 



Cyminosma, baccas ovato acumiuatae. Gcert. sem. 1. p. 

 281. t. 58./. 1. 



Perin-panel. Rheed. Mai. 5. t. 1.5. 



Dr. Konig's description of this plant as given by Dr. 

 Dryander, in the 2nd. vol. of the Transactions of the Lin- 

 naean Society ; page 233 is very correct. 



A native of Ceylon, Chittagong, &c. 



XYLOCARPUS. Schreb. gen. n. 646. 

 Calyx four-toothed. Corol four-petalled. Nectary 

 eight-cleft, staminilerous. Capsule four-valved, cells 

 uncertain, replete with from six to twelve, angular, vari 

 ously shaped seeds. Embryo centrifugal. 



