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I prefently met with an evergreen tree, the 

 kernel of whofe fruit, like the cafhew-nut, 

 was fituated in a flefhy receptacle much larger 

 than itfclf: for which reafon I have given to 

 this new genus the name of exocarpos. 



On the fame ftem are feen hermaphrodite 

 flowers, with difiin6t males and females. 



The male flowers have a calyx with five or- 

 bicular leaves ; thefe have no corolla : the fla- 

 mina, five in number, are fmall, and attached to 

 the calyx between its divifions; the germen is 

 abortive. 



The female flowers have a fimilar calyx ; they 

 have neither corolla nor ftamina ; the globular 

 germen has one fhort ftyle; the ftigma is in the 

 ihape of a circular fhield. 



The hermaphrodite flowers have the calyx, 

 flamina, and germen, as I have juft defcribed. 



The fruit is almoft a round nut, fomewbat 

 black, inferted in a red flefhy receptacle, hol- 

 low in its middle, the length of which is about 

 three times that of the nut. 



The kernel is oily, and of the lame fhape as 

 its fhell. 



The principal characters of this new genus 

 induce me to place it among the terebintaceee 

 next to the anacardlum. 



I have named this fpecies exocarpos cuprejji- 

 formis. 



M 4 Explanation 



