392 - DECANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Sandoriciim, 



1. E. indica. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets grossly serrate. 

 Nectaries ten-cleft to near the base. Panicles axillary. 



Teling. Pooroodona. 



Common throughout the Circars. It delights chiefly 

 in the lower, sloping barren lands, about the bottom of 

 mountains, where it grows to be a small tree. It flowers 

 all the year round. 



Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, from six to nine 

 inches long. Leaflets from four to six pairs, opposite, 

 oblong, grossly serrate, smooth ; the most exterior al- 

 ways largest, about three inches long, and one and a half 

 broad. Panicles axillary, small, long-peduncled. Flow- 

 ers small, white, inodorous. Nectary ten-cleft, cyliridric; 

 segments bifid. Filaments exceedingly short, inserted 

 into the divisions of the ten segments of the nectary. 

 Germ superior, five celled, with one ovula in each, at- 

 tached to the upper end of the axis. Berry, the size 

 of a pea, round, smooth, when ripe red and somewhat 

 succulent, five-celled. Seed solitary, reniform. Integu- 

 ments two ; exterior hard, thin, and elastic ; inner mem- 

 branaceous, and brown. Perisperm conform to the seed, 

 soft and juicy. Embryo a little curved, inverse. Coty- 

 ledons oblong. Radicle oblong, superior. 



1 have not found that this species is employed in any 

 shape except for fuel. 



SANDOmCUM. Schreh. gen. n. 1751. 

 Calyx five-toothed. Corol five-petalled. Nectary cy- 

 lindric, bearing the ten anthers in its mouth. Germ su- 

 perior, five-celled, cells two-seeded, attachment subsupe- 

 rior. Berry five-seeded. Embryo inverse, no perisperm. 



1. S. indicum. WiUd.2.55e. 

 Sandoricum. Rumph. Amb. 1. p. 167. t. 64. 



