GuTTiFERALES.] RHIZOBOLACEiE. 399 



and Terebinths, through the intervention of Mangifera among the foniier. Tlieir 

 great peculiarity is the seeds having a radicle of enoranous size, compared with the 

 cotyledons. If it were not for that, the Order could not be satisfactorily distinguished 

 from Guttifers. 



A f(;w large trees, found in the forests of the hottest parts of South America, consti- 

 tute the whole of this Order. 



It is from trees belonging to it that are produced the Souari (or Suwarrow) Nuts of 

 the shops, the kernel of which is one of the most dehcious fruits of the nut kind that is 

 known. An oil is extracted from them not inferior to that of the Olive. They chiefly 

 come from Caryocar butyrosum, the wood of which is said to be of much value for 

 ship-building. These nuts must not be confounded with what are called Brazil Nuts, 

 which are the seed of BerthoUetia excelsa, a genus of the MjTtal AUiance. The timber 

 of Caryocar butjTOsum (Pekea tuberculosa) is excellent for ship-timber, mill-work, 

 planks, &c., according to Schomburgk, who also speaks of another timber tree of 

 this Order, known imder the name of CakaraUi or Kukaralli, whose bark consists of 

 numerous layers, which the Indians, by beating, separate till they are as thin as satin 

 paper, when they use them as wTappers for cigars. Is not this the very different 

 Lecjlhis ollaria ? — See Lecyths. 



GENERA. 



Carj'ocar, Linn. I Pekea, Aubl. 



Rhizoholus, Gartn. Souari, Aubl. 



Acanthocarya, AxTViAa,. \ Anthodiscus, G. W.F.Mey. 



Numbers. Gen. 2. Sp. 8. 



Position. — Clusiacese. — RhizobolacejE. 



Sapindacece. 



