Sandoricum. decandria monogynia. 393 



A most elegant tree, having a straight trunk, about ten 

 or twelve feet in height, covered with smooth, greenish 

 bark; the tree this measurement is taken from is in the 

 Company's Botanic garden at Calcutta, about twenty-four 

 years old, eighty inches in circumference, four feet above 

 the ground, supporting a large, globular, dense head ; it 

 flowers in February, and the fruit ripens in the rainy sea- 

 son. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, ternate, about a foot long. 

 Leaflets ovate, entire, having the upper side smooth, ex- 

 cept when young, and the lower one doAvny, the veins pa- 

 rallel, from five to seven inches long, and from three to 

 four broad. Pe/2o/es round, when young downy. Stipules 

 none. Panicles axillary, diflfase, shorter than the leaves. 

 Bractes oblong. Flowers numerous, small, yellow. Calyx 

 beneath, campanulate, five-parted; divisions rounded, dow- 

 ny. Petals five, linear oblong, expanding. Nectary dou- 

 ble ; the exterior one cylindric, with a ten-toothed mouth ; 

 the interior one is one-fourth the length of the exterior one, 

 enveloping the germ and base of the style, with its mouth 

 about ten-toothed. Filaments none. Anthers ten, linear, 

 afiixed to the inside of the exterior nectary. Germ supe- 

 rior, five-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the 

 upper end of the axis. Berry nearly round, size of a 

 small orange, slightly villous, when ripe yellow ; pulp in 

 large quantity, fleshy, acid, and edible, five-celled, but the 

 partitions are often incomplete, when the seeds come to 

 maturity. Seeds one in each cell, oblong, each enveloped 

 in its own proper aril, as in the guttiferte ; aril replete 

 with tough woolly fibres, which adhere firmly to the exte- 

 rior, tough, parchment like integument ; the inner integu- 

 ment brown, polished and spongy ; attachment from the 

 upper and inner edge to the upper end of the axis, as in 

 the germ. Perisperm none. Embryo straight, inverse. 

 Cotyledons two, conform to the seed. Plumula two-lobed. 

 Radicle short, clavate, superior. 



