l^^icUS. aiONOIXIA MONANURIA. 555 



Branchlets rust coloured, but smooth. Leaves between 

 alternate and opposite, short-petioled, most slightly three- 

 nerved, broad-lanceolate, or oblong, sharp-pointed, smooth 

 on both sides, entire ; from four to eight inches long. Sti- 

 pules as in the genus. Fruit axillary, paired, long-pedun- 

 cled, turbinate, the size of a large pea, smooth ; umbilicus ele- 

 vated. Calyx of the fruit none, but there is a small three- 

 scaled one at the base of the peduncle. 



SECT. II. Fruit fasicled, racemed, or panicled. 



44. F. exasperata. /?. 



Arboreous. Leaves short-petioled, oblong, acuminate, re- 

 pand -serrate, rough on both sides. Fruit axillary, solitary, 

 or in pairs, peduncled, round, size of a pea. 



A native of the eastern parts of India and introduced into 

 this garden in 1798. By the close of 1802, the trees were 

 from twelve to fifteen feet high, with an erect trunk and 

 branches; covered with rust-coloured, pretty smooth bark; 



Young shoots scabrous. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, 

 oblong, somewhat three-nerved, repand-serrate, acuminate, 

 scabrous on both sides, so much so that they are fit to polish 

 wood, and i\ ory with ; from three to six inches long, and from 

 one and a half to three broad. Fruit axillary, solitary or in 

 pairs, peduncled, rough, the size of a small pea ; umbilicus 

 small, depressed, and shut with coloured scales. 



Folium polilorium, Rumpk. Amb. iv. t. 63, ao-rees with 

 theleavesof our oldest trees, and as they were brouoht from 

 Araboyna, I conclude they are the same. Louriero's F. poli- 

 toria is certaiidy different, for there is nothing like a spike 

 to be found on our trees ; besides Louriero describes his to 

 be a shrub only. It ought, however, to be compared with 

 F. politoria. Willd. iv. 1144. 



45. F. rotundij'olia. R. 



Leaves round, .'scol lop-serrate, downy underneath. Fruit 



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