416 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. InOCarpUS. 



two, three, or four irregular portions. Nuts or seeds gene- 

 rally from one to four, consequently their shape varies 

 much, attached as in the germ. Integuments two ; the ex- 

 terior one somewhat unciform, pretty smooth, dark brown, 

 the interior one membranaceous- Perisperm conform to 

 the seed, of a firm texture, and dull whitish grey colour. 

 Embryo erect, nearly as long as the perisperm, Cotyle- 

 dons ovate-lanceolate. Radicle oblong, inferior. 



2. S. benjoin. Willd. 2. 623. Dryand. in Phil. Trans. 77. 

 308. t. 12. 



Leaves alternate, oblong, tapering to an obtuse point; 

 racemes (panicle,) axillary, compound, not villous, one- 

 seeded. 



Benjamin, or Benzoin, Marsden's Sumatra, p. 123. 



Lwban the Bengalee, and Arabic name of the resin, 

 though in fact this name ought to be applied to the resin of 

 my Boswellia thurifera, which is the real olibanum or 

 Frankincense, of the ancients. 



INOCARPUS. 



Calyx bidentate. Corot infundibuliforra ; five cleft. 

 Stamina in a double series from the tube. Germ superior; 

 one-celled ; one-seeded ; attachment superior. Drupe 

 one-seeded. Embryo inverse ; no perisperm. 



I. edulis. Linn, suppl 239, 



Gajanus. Rumph. Amb. 1. p. 170. t. 65. 



A native of the Molucca Islands, and from thence in- 

 troduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1798, 

 where in ten years the largest of them was twenty.five or 

 thirty feet high ;they blossom during the hot season, and 

 ripen their fruit in August and September. 



Trunk straight. Bark smooth ; of a greenish-ash colour. 

 Branches spreading with numerous, bifarious, flexuose, 



