626 poLYANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Garciuia. 



Ion?, alternate with the leaflets of the calyx, and nearly 

 of the same lensith. Filaments numerous, short, collected 

 on a large elevated four-sided, fleshy receptacle. Anthers 

 twin. Pistil no other than an abortive gland immersed 

 in the fleshy receptacle of the stamens. Female calyx 

 and corol as in the male. Nectary^ or abortive stamens, 

 a membranous ring surrounding the base of the germ, 

 which divides into twenty or thirty, compressed filaments, 

 ending in enlarged, glandular heads, not unlike anthers. 

 This ring is soon split into various portions by the growth 

 of the germ and then appears like the phalanges of fila- 

 ments in the class Pohjadelpliia. Germ superior, globu- 

 lar. Style none. Stigma peltate, about ten-lobed. Berry 

 large, two pounds weight each, round, smooth, when ripe 

 of a rich yellow colour, and exceedingly acid. Seeds about 

 ten, reniform, each inclosed in its own, proper, fleshy, suc- 

 culent envelope, or aril, within which I always find a 

 quantity of soft yellow resin. 



The fleshy part of the fruit which covers the seeds and 

 their proper juicy envelope, or aril, is in large quantity, 

 of a firm texture and of a very sharp, pleasant, acid taste. 

 It is used by the natives in their curries, and for acidulat- 

 ing water. If cut into slices, and dried, it retains its qua- 

 lities for years and might be most advantageously em- 

 ployed during long sea-voyages, as a succedaneum for 

 lemons, or limes, to put into various messes, where salt 

 meat is employed, &c. 



8. G. paniculata. R. 



Dioceous. Leaves oh\on^. Male flowers ipnuicled, fe- 

 male spiked, and without a nectary. Berry spherical, four- 

 seeded. 



This tree, found in a few gardens about Calcutta, was 

 orginally from Silhet, where the tree is indigenous, and 

 known to the natives by the name Boobee-Kowa ; about 

 Calcutta, they are smaller than in their native soil. Flow- 



