every direction, dichotomous, the old ones with smooth olive 

 coloured hark, the young ones green, round, and very smooth. 

 Leaves opposite, petioled, ohlong and linear-oblong, entire, 

 rather obtuse, of a firm texture, and polished on both sides ; 

 veins parallel, diverging from the rib ; length from four to 

 eight inches, and from one to two broad. Petioles short, and 

 united in a cup like a stipulary ring, which completely 

 embraces the branchlets. All these parts very resinous. 

 Racemes simple or compound, single or in pairs, in the 

 extreme divisions of the branchlets, often as long as the 

 leaves, polished, bright green. Flowers rather remote, long 

 pedicelled, large white, scarcely fragrant. Bracts scarcely 

 any. Calyx five parted, divisions short, semilunar, resinous. 

 Corolla : tube long, gibbous near the base, much contracted 

 above the stamina. Border of five, contorted, falcate seg- 

 ments. Filaments short, inserted into the tube of the corol 

 near the middle. Anthers sagittate. Germs two, closely 

 united ; single, one-celled ; ovula numerous, attached to a 

 two-lobed receptacle, on the inner side of the cell. Style 

 two-thirds shorter than the tube of the corol, two-lobed. 

 Stigma large, with a tapering bifid apex. Follicles : it is rare 

 to find more than one of the two come to maturity, they are 

 recurved with the back considerably concave, and very 

 gibbous on the opposite side, where an elevated rib runs on 

 each side of the suture, obtusely pointed, pretty smooth ; 

 when ripe of a bright orange colour, four or five inches long, 

 and nearly two in diameter where thickest. Seeds numerous, 

 of an irregular cuneate- oblong shape, with a deep longitu- 

 dinal groove on one side ; each enveloped in its own proper 

 scarlet pulpy aril, and inserted along the side of the two 

 margins of the suture by the small end of the aril, which is 

 again attached by a broad umbilical cord to the centre of the 

 longitudinal groove just mentioned. Perisperm in pretty 

 large quantity, rather soft, and of a pale blueish white colour. 

 Embryo nearly as long as the seed, with the two cordate 

 cotyledons lodged near the thick end, and the long, almost 

 straight, cylindric radicle directed to the small end where the 

 aril was attached to the margin of the follicle. 



" An incomplete drawing and description of this tree was 

 sent to the Hon. the Court of Directors under the name 

 Cerbera dichotoma, and numbered 1541. At that time I had 



