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long, and two or three broad. Petioles common, flat on 

 the upper side below the leaflets, where they are inserted, 

 flexuose, and nearly round. Peho^e^s short, and round. Sti- 

 pules none. Panicles axillary, or rather above the axils, 

 rigid, not half the length of the leaves, composed of short, 

 alternate, rigid, expanding ramifications. In old stunt- 

 ed trees, the panicle has dwindled into a small, rigid, 

 simple raceme. Bractes minute, caducous at a very early 

 period. Flowers xnihex small, of a pale yellow colour, in- 

 dorous. Calyx one-leaved, small, campanulate ; mouth 

 four-toothed. Petals four, linear, recurvate, many times 

 larger than the calyx, and rather longer than the exterior 

 nectary. Nectary double ; exterior subcylindric, and of a 

 deeper yellow colour than the petals ; mouth a little con- 

 tracted, and obscurely eight-toothed, the inner one some- 

 what gibbous, about one-third of the length of the exte- 

 rior one, fleshy, orange-coloured ; mouth funnel-shaped, 

 eight-toothed; teeth alternately smaller, and many of them 

 dentate. Filament none. Anthers eight, inserted on the 

 inside of the exterior nectary, a little within its mouth, 

 and immediately under the eight fissures. Germ supe- 

 rior, ovate, four-celled, with two horizontally placed ovu- 

 la in each, attached to the top of the axis. Style cylin- 

 dric as long as the exterior nectary. Stigma enlarged ; a- 

 pex obscurely four-lobed, its base surrounded with a belt. 

 Capsule globose, the size of an apple, of a hard fleshy tex- 

 ture, smooth ; w hen ripe, of a deep yellow throughout, four- 

 celled, four-valved, opening from the apex. Seed solita- 

 ry, obovate, oblong, the size and appearance of a chesnut ; 

 no ainl. Integument single, spongy ; the outside polished, 

 of a dark purple colour ; inwardly yellow. Perisperm none. 

 Embryo inverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed, firm, 

 of a deep green round the edges, paler within. Plumula 

 conic, two-lobed. Radicle ovate, superior, its apex consi- 

 derably within the vertex of the cotyledons. 



Of all I have yet examined, this tree comes nearest 



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