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beautifully drooping branchlets. Leaves alternate, bifa- 

 rious, short-petioled, permanent, oblong, emarginate, en- 

 tire, both sides polished, and of a deep shining green 

 colour ; from six to twelve inches long, and about three 

 or four broad. Stipules minute, caducous. Spikes axil- 

 lary, sessile, solitary, or in pairs, much shorter than the 

 leaves. In the Bengal plant smooth. Flowers numer- 

 ous, small, very pale yellow, fragrant. Calyx bilabi- 

 ate. Corol funnel-shaped. Border five-cleft ; segments 

 lanceolate. Filaments ten, in a double series, hid in the 

 tube, and inserted into it. Anthers ovsd, those oi the 

 upper series even with the mouth of the tube of the co- 

 rol. Germ superior, oval, one-celled, containing one- 

 seed, attached to the top of the cell, immediately under 

 the stigma, for there is no style. Drupe obliquely oval, 

 the size of a goose's egg, a little compressed laterally, 

 smooth, when ripe yellow, and of a tough fibrous texture, 

 one-celled, two-valved, opening round the margin into 

 two equal portions. Nut solitary, thick, two-valved, 

 one-celled, and of a hard, tough fibrous consistence. 

 Seed single, conform to the nut, and attached to it imme- 

 diately under the stigma. Integuments two, the exterior one 

 brown, firmer and thicker than the inner one, and beau- 

 tifully marked with numerous, ramous, veins ; the inner 

 one membranaceous. Perisperninone. Embryo invevse. 

 Cotyledons two, conform to the seed, amygdaline. P/m- 

 mula, in seeds beginning to vegetate, it consists of several 

 imbricate scales. Radicle superior, cylindric, and lodged 

 immediately within the umbilicus, under the stigma. 



The rapid growth of this very beautiful, ever green 

 tree, and the elegant shape of its spreading, dense crown 

 of deep green foliage, renders it one of the most ornamen- 

 tal presents Bengal has got from the Molucca Islands, 

 'i he kernel is certainly edible, but by no means palata- 

 ble. As yet T can say nothing of the quality of the tim- 

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