638 poLYANDRiA MONOGYNTA. Caveya. 



in each cell. Style the length of the stamens. Stigma obs- 

 curely four-lobed. Berry spherical, smooth, of the size of an 

 oransre, the whole substance, the seeds excepted, oi a lirm, 

 yellowish fleshy consistence, intermixed with a few filres. 

 Seeds a few^ scattered through the pulp of the berry, shape 

 various but senerally oblong, and about the size of a field 

 bean. Integument single, tough, smooth, of a light-brown, 

 Perisperm conform to the seed, hard, amygdaline. £m- 

 bryo simple, (as in the Guttiferous seeds) lanceolate, 

 extending tlie whole length of the seed. When vege- 

 tation commences the radicle issues from the small end 

 of the seed, close to the umVilicus ; and the scaly plu- 

 niula from the opposite end ; the embryo furnishing the 

 centre, or ligneous part, and the perisperm the cortical 

 part of the young plant. 



2. C. arborea. R. Ind. pi 3. N. 218. 



Arboreous. Flowers sessile. Leaves oval, serrulate- 

 dentate. Berries ovate and crowned with the erect seg- 

 ments of the calyx. 



Pelou. Rheed. Mai 3. t. 36. 



Teling. Kumbi. 



Tarn. Pootta-tanni-marum, 



A tree of immense size, growing on the mountains of 

 Coromandel, &c. where it blossoms during the hot season, 

 and the seed ripens about three or four months afier. 



3 C. herbaceous. R. Ind. pi 3. n. 217. 



Herbaceous. Flowers peduncled. Leaves obovate-cu- 

 neafe, serruhite. 



Bhoomi darimba the Sanscrit name. 



BejKj. Bhooi dalim. 

 . A small herbaceous plant, with a ligneous, permanent 

 toot, which shoot from short, perishable stems, or branches 

 of only a few inches in lengtii ; a native of the interior 

 parts of Bengal, where it was found by Dr. William 



