belonging to ihe Natural Family of the Aiiranlla, 



225 



*** SEMEN LIBERUM. 



Forma. Semen ovatum lenticulari compreffum pilofum. 

 Integ. duplex; exterius membranaceum pills intertextis vefti- 



tum, interius coriaceum, in obtufiori parte chalaza 



lata ferruginca notatum. 

 Perisp. nullum. 



Embr. Semini conformis albefcens, cotyledones duce piano- 



convexae carnofe, radicula minima. 



This genus I have defcribed from fpecimens fent from India by 

 Dr. Ruffel and Dr. Koenig. We are acquainted with only one 

 fpecies, a tree growmg in the forefls of India, which I call Feronia 

 ckphantum, from the name by which it goes among the Eno-lifh 

 inhabitants of the Eaft Indies. " * "^ 



Plants arc always better defcribed from frefli, than from dried 

 fpecunens ; but in order to fatisfy myfelf, and to be able to anfwer 

 for the charaders, I have fcrupuloufly avoided giving any which 

 were not difcernible in the fpecimens before me* though Kcenio-'s 

 defcriptions of the Crateva marmelos and Balar,gas, are m'ore explicit 



* For inftancc, the Mkm I have not marked, in either of the two genera, becaufe I 

 could not fuffic.ently di(l!nguin> its figure. That of the Fer.ua feems to me worthy the 

 artent.on of the botanifls who may have oecafion to obferve it in a frefl, fpecimen. The 

 fle(h, which .n both genera furround. the loculaments. I dcfcribe fach as it was in the drv 

 fpecmens after having been foaked. The membranes, which form the loculaments i 

 have not defcribed, though eflcntial parts, becaufe I conceive they muft be very di(Fe-ent 

 .n the frelh fru.t, from what they appeared to me in the dry fpecimens. I muft notice 

 however, that their interior furface, in both genera, is covered with large round fears of 

 dr.ed vehcular glands, of which I will hereafter take an opportunity of fpeaking more at 

 large, and m a more proper place, in a Memoir on the Natural Order of the ^ura„tn 



Vol. Y. G g 



ii\ 



