612 LORANTHACE.E. 
glaucescent. Petiolis articulatis in ramulis supra planius- 
culis, fructibus maximis in pedunculo ligneis 13 uncialib. 
crassis globosis aurantia magna magnitudine nudis, apice de- 
pressiusculis, extus suberosis grisco-brunnea, cortex 14 linea 
crassa lignea dura, massam carnosam. Semina 00, plura 
maxima in substantia cellulosa nidulante, verisimiliter sine 
Ordine evidenti disposit. ovato-oblonga, materia gelatinoso. 
solida diaphana inclusa. ~ 
Testa atro-coriacea dura. Tegument. interius membrana- 
ceum tenue, albumen copiosum carnosum album arcte vesti- 
ens. 
Embryo in axi albuminis, orthotropa quoad directionem 
radiculee brevis obtuse teretis hilum versus. Cotyledones planze 
contiguee carnosz foliacee. Plumula inconspicua, cavitus al- 
buminis embryonifer membrana tenuissime vestita. Cotyle- 
dones oblonga directione diamet. longioris, seminis parallelz. 
Hilum parvum. Testa extus lineata rugosula, an ideo testa 
baccata. Pl. DLXXXV. A. Fig. IX. 
Has. Assam at Suddyah: Jan. 9th, 1836. 
FLACOURTIA. 
Flacourtia edulis. 
Fruit the size of a large cherry, annular at the base and 
with the remains of the perianth : apex depressed, umbilicate 
surrounded with the persistent unchanged styles and stigmata 
smooth, externally reddish with green streaks, baccate with as 
many cells as there are styles, mat filled with pulp in which, 
the solitary and binary pendulous seeds nestle. 
Seeds much compressed, testa thick indurated nearly bony, 
inner tegument very thin brownish membranaceus. 
Albumen copious fleshy. Embryo with the radicle next the 
hilum, and consequently superior, with flat foliaceous cotyle- 
dons cordate at the base. Plumula inconspicua, 
