622 roLYANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Garchua, 



in length. Bracte an ovate, concave one embraces the 

 base of each peduncle. Ca/^.v four-leaved. Leaflets round 

 and concave, the exterior pair smaller. Petals four, ob- 

 long, concave, expanding, double the length of the calyx. 

 Filaments about thirty, short, inserted in a fleshy recep- 

 tacle, which also elevates a small headed column or body 

 in the centre. Anthers twin. 



Female. Flowers axillary and terminal, solitary, sub- 

 sessile, rather larger than the male. 



Calyx and corol as in the male. Filaments six, seven, 

 or eight, about one for each cell of the germ, slender, short, 

 each headed with something like a small abortive anther. 

 Germ round, with from six to eight sulcaiate, from six to 

 eight-celled, with an ovula in each attached to the middle 

 of the axis. The part which becomes the aril in the ripe 

 fruit, now forms the wall of the cells. Style none. Stigma 

 the aril of each seed, now peltate, verrucose, no evident di- 

 vision into lobes. Berry the size of a small orange, smooth, 

 when ripe yellow, somewhat torose, having an elevation 

 over each seed, one-celled, crowned w ith the wonted stig- 

 ma. Seeds as far as eight, each enveloped in its proper 

 succulent aril, but not otherwise separated in the berry, 

 semi-ovate. Integument seemingly single, though with 

 care it may be divided into two, tough, veined coats. 

 Perispei-m and embryo exactly as in the species already 

 described. 



3. G. Cowa. R. 



Dioecous. Leaves broad-lanceolar. Flowers terminal, 

 male sub-urabelled ; the female has one, three, or five flow- 

 ers, with four, five or ten-cleft sets of abortive stamina. 

 Stigma from six to eight-loljed. Berry torulose, from four 

 to eight-seeded. 



Hind. Cowa. 



The tree is of a middle size and handsome ; it yields an 

 inferior sort of Gamboge, and the fruit edible, though not 



