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the leaf has a joint in the middle, the distal portion 

 being a leaflet, the proximal, the rachis). 



Leaflet glandular with large translucent globules 

 of oil, which give it its peculiar smell when crushed. 



Flowers axillary, calyx cup-shaped, petals five, sta- 

 mens numerous. Ovary many celled with one stout 

 style and capitate stigma. Fruit a many-celled berry 

 (each segment of the Orange being the equivalent of 

 a cell). Seeds numerous immersed in a pulp of 

 swollen hairs. 



FERONIA ELEPHANTUM, Corr., the well-known 

 1 Elephant ' or ' Wood-apple ' tree. A fair-sized tree, 

 often with the leaves fascicled (in bunches) in the 

 axils of spines (see p. 177), because on very short 

 undeveloped branches. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate, 

 the rachis sometimes winged. Leaflets obovate, base 

 cuneate, tip crenate or notched, otherwise entire, with 

 numerous pellucid glands (which are easily seen, 

 especially round the margin, if the blade is held up 

 against the light). It is to the oil in these glands 

 that the strong smell of aniseed is due. 



Flowers in loose cymose panicles, appearing with 

 the young leaves towards the ends of the branches, 

 in the early part of the year. Calyx a small five- 

 cornered flat plate. Petals five, free, ovate and curling 

 backwards when fully open. Stamens ten, with large 

 oblong anthers, and short filaments, the bases of 

 which are dilated and slightly connected to form a 

 villous cup round the ovary. Ovary at first of several, 

 later on of one cell only, with no style but a very 

 large oblong stigma which soon falls off. Some of 

 the flowers with stamens only, others with an ovary 

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