Fiuconrlia. dioecia polyandria. 833 



1. F. inerniis, Roxb. 



Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves oblong, creuatc serrate, po- 

 lished. Racemes axillary, short. Floxuers hermaphrodite. 

 Style five-cleft. 



MaL Touutom?. 



A native of the Moluccas, where the tree is cultivated for 

 its edible fruit. It has lately been introduced into the Botanic 

 garden, where the tree thrives well, and blossoms during the 

 dry season. The fruit ripens towards the close of the rains. 



Tnmk short, soon dividing into numerous branches which 

 form a large, very dense head of great beauty. The bark 

 smooth, brownish, and perfectly destitute of every thing like 

 thorns or prickles. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, elliptic, 

 smooth, of a shining green on both sides ; when they first ex- 

 pand, reddish, and then the tree is uncommonly gaudy, from 

 three to six inches long. Petioles semi-cylindric. Stipules 

 none. Racemes axillary, longer than the petioles, few-flow- 

 ered. Pedicels clavate, jointed near the middle. Bractes 

 ovate, caducous. Calyx deeply four or five-parted ; divi- 

 sions reniform, shorter than the stamens and pistil. Corol 

 none. Filaments about twenty, inserted on a fleshy nectari- 

 ferous ring, which surrounds the base of the germ. Anthers 

 two-lobed. Ger7n ovate, five-celled, with two ovula in each, 

 attached to the middle of the axis. Style five-cleft, spreading. 

 Berry of the size and appearance of a red cherry, and like 

 that fruit, very smooth. Seeds as far as ten, in five vertical 

 pairs, much compressed, ovate, covered with a rough nuci- 

 form integument. Perisperm conform to the seed. Embryo 

 straight. Cotyledons ovate. Radicle oblong, pointing to 

 the umbilicus, or pointed end of the seed, which is next tu 

 the middle of the axis of the fruit. 



The fruit is too sour to be eaten raw, but makes very good 

 tarts. The tree is of a middle size, very ornamental, and a 

 perfect evergreen in Bengal . 



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