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ge Nt svg aie rhachique petiolo similibus, illo 3-4 poll. longo ; 
rami inferi 2-4 in. longi, omnes patuli, a medio vel paulo infra 
sonnei ae ; icoeete sinter, med tae ; pedicelli graciles, ad 15 lin. longi, 
in artic ‘lores versus ramulorum apices congesti 
Cala saikacsene, } lin. longus, ad medium 5-lobatus. etala alba, 
1 lin. longa, $lin. lata. Anthere 4 lin. longe. Ovarium cum stylis 
2 lin. longum. Putamen 4-5 lin. longum, 3- 3h lin. Jatum. Spondias? 
lakonensis, Pierre, Fl. Cochinch. t. 375. 
Inpo-Cutna : Siam, Mekong valley near Lakon, Harmand, Herb. 
Prerre, 1825. To nkin, Hanoi, cultivated in the squares and streets, 
Balansa, 4036, 4612. 
his plant was made the type of a new section A//ospondias of the 
genus Spondias by Pierre, l.c. The author, who did not know the 
fruit, remarked, however, that it differed in re Raspes from 
Spondi tas, and that it might have to be referred to a new genus when 
the fruit should be known. The Kew collections a ste contain com- 
plete fruits, but several stones (putamina) deprived of their fleshy 
covering, which is, according to Balansa, edible. The structure of 
those stones with their large cavities occupying the ch and much 
prar oviany to jus sre the raising of the section Atlospndi to generic 
rank. Dr. Pierre, to whose jnduess we owe a specimen of t the type 
of his Spondias lakonensia, has confirmed this view after having seen 
a sketch of the fruit which IT had sent to him. There are large no 
i ere 
em 1 be seen in the stone ; on the other hand, fine resin canals 
occur betw the cells, and these may give rise to 
large cavities of the endocar The resinous solution in these was 
of course, dried up in the stones which I have seen, and formed thin 
transverse films, i the cavities more or less perfectly into 
chambe Sra 
ers.—O, 
Fig. 1, — of an inflorescence; 2, ° ealyx; 3, a dise with 3 of the 
stamens ; 4, a dise expanded ; 5, an ovary; 6, dn same, cnt longitudinally ; a a 
stone, seen from the side; 8, the same, seen from the top; 9, a stone in cross 
section ; 10, an embryo, —All enlar arged, 
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