g30 DiOECiA icosANDRiA. Gelonium. 



two or three-celled. Seeds solitary, arilled. Embryo in- 

 verse, and furnished with a perisperni. 



1. G. bjfarium, Willd. iv. 831. 



Leaves entire. Capsule two-celled. Stamina about fif- 

 teen. 



Ot this elegant small tree, 1 have only met with two in the 

 Company's Botanic garden, one of them bears male, and the 

 other female flowers, during the months of February and 

 March. The buds are incrusted with yellow resin. 



Trvnk straight, as yet small. Branches numerous, spread- 

 ing ; hranchlets bifarious, the whole forming a very regular, 

 oval head. Bark of a very light ash colour, and smooth ; the 

 height of the trees about thirty feet. Leaves alternate, short- 

 petioled, bifarious, oblong, perfectly entire and very smooth 

 on both sides, permanent. Stipules small, obtuse, /^'lowers 

 small, yellow, several on a very short common peduncle oppo- 

 site to the leaves, each supported by its own proper pedicel, 

 in the male most numerous. Bractes some very small ones 

 at the base of the pedicels, these as well as the stipules, flower- 

 buds, and germs, have frequently small bits of a yellow 

 resin adhering to them. Male. Calyx five-leaved ; leaf- 

 lets unequal, orbicular, concave, permanent. Corol none. 

 Filaments about five, as long as the calyx, inserted into a 

 glandular, convex receptacle. Anthers oval, two-lobed. 

 Female flowers on a diflferent plant. Calyx as in the male, 

 permanent. Corol none. Nectary a large, crenulated, yel- 

 low ring surrounding the base of the germ. Germ superior, 

 two-lobed, two-celled, with one ovulum in each cell attached 

 to the top of the axis. Styles scarcely any. Stigma four-lobed. 

 Capsule dicoccous, fleshy, smooth, yellow, two-celled, two- 

 valved. Seeds solitary, round, enveloped in an entire, juicy, 

 white aril, Jnteynments besides the aril two ; the exterior one 

 brown, smooth, and brittle ; the inner one membranaceous. Pe- 

 risperni conform to the seed, pure white, amygdaline. Em- 

 bryo inverse. Cotyledons often as large as the perisperm, round. 



