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their upper and inner angle, to the axis. Sfyle cylindric. 

 Stigma hirge, with a five-toothed apex. Drupe ovate, the 

 size of a pigeon's egg, smooth, fleshy, when ripe yellow. 

 Nut oblong, perforated at both ends; apex five- toothed 

 round the perforation, five- celled. Seeds solitary, lanceo- 

 lar, attached from the apex. Perisperm in small quantity. 

 Embryo straight, inverse, pale green. Cotyledons ]iin- 

 ceolate. Radicle oval, superior. 



6. M robusta. R. 



Leaves bipinnate ; leaflets obliquely ovate, polished, 

 entire, or with the anterior margins crenulate, acuminate. 

 Panicles axillary. Drupes ovate. Nut with a quinque- 

 denfate apex. 



A large tree, a native of Malabar, and introduced into 

 the Botanic garden at Calcutta by Dr. Berry, where in 

 seven years the trunk of the largest tree was forty-four 

 inches in circumference, four feet above ground, and the 

 total height for*^y-six feet. Flowering time March and 

 April. The seed ripens in December. 



Trunk very straight. Bark clean, smooth, dark 

 brown. Branches large, not very numerous, but spread- 

 ing considerably, their bark like that of the trunk, with 

 some light grey, scabrous specks. Young shoots dow- 

 ny, with minute stellate pubescence. Leaves alter- 

 nate, unequally bipinnate, from twelve to eighteen inch- 

 es long. Pinnce about three pair. Leaflets three, five, 

 seven, or nine on each pinna, the pairs obliquely-ovate, 

 and oblong ; the terminal one biform, all are smooth, 

 or rather polished, entire, or crenulate, acuminate, from 

 two to three inches long. Panicles axillary, scarcely 

 half the length of the leaves. Flowers numerous, small, 

 white, inodorous. Bractes below the ramifications of 

 the panicle, solitary, filiform, and often very long. Calyx 

 five-leaved ; leaflets ovate-oblong. Petals linear-lan- 

 ceolar, recurvate. Nectary gibbous at the base; seg- 

 ments of its mouth minute and filiform. Filaments 



