XYLOCARPUS. 



pinnated. Panicles axillary or terminal. Flowers few, lax. 

 W. and A. 



302. X. Granatum " Konig. naturf. 20. p. 2." Roxb.fi. ind. 

 ii. 240. W. and A. i. 121. A. de J. Meliac. 92. Carapa mo- 

 luccensis Lam. diet. i. 261. DC.prodr. i. 626. (Rumf. iii. t. 61. ?) 

 Various parts of the East Indies. 



Leaves from 6-12 inches long, with the leaflets in 2 pairs, elliptical, 

 obtuse, sometimes slightly acute at base, smooth, about 4 inches long ; 

 petioles round, smooth, dark brown. Extremely bitter. 



303. X. obovatus A. de J. Meliac. p. 92. Carapa obovata 

 BlumeBydr. p. 179. Coast of Java. (Nirie.) 



Leaflets in 1-2 pairs, opposite, obovate, rounded, coriaceous, rather 

 convex. Calyx urceolate, 4-cleft. Petals 4, oval, concave. Like 

 the last. 



SANDORICUM. 



Calyx shortly 5-lobed. Petals 5, spreading. Stamen-tube 

 cylindrical, 10-toothed, bearing 10 anthers on the inside below 

 the apex. Disk expanding upwards into a short membranaceous 

 tube, sheathing the base of the style, torn and 5-toothed at the 

 apex. Ovary half immersed in the bottom of the calyx : ovules 

 2 in each cell, collateral, pendulous. Stigma long, simple and 

 globose at the base, above 5-lobed ; with the lobes emarginate 

 and slightly diverging. Fruit baccate, apple-like, 3-5-celled. 

 Seeds solitary, with a parchment-like arillus, pulpy on the out- 

 side. Trees. Leaves trifoliolate. Panicles axillary. Flowers 

 crowded on the partial peduncles. 



304. S. indicum Cav. diss. 359. tt. 202, 203. Lam. ill. t. 350. 

 DC.prodr. i. 621. A. de J. Meliac. 80. W. and A. i. 119. 

 (Rumf. i. t. 61.) Philippines, Moluccas, and various parts of 

 the East Indies. 



A tree. Leaves ternate, on long stalks, alternate ; leaflets ovate, 

 acuminate, entire, smooth above, downy below, as is the common pe- 

 tiole. Flowers small, in racemes, about 6 inches long. Fruit the size 

 and form of an apple, with an acid alliaceous flavour, and a tender 

 whitish flesh. Root aromatic, stomachic and antispasmodic. It is 

 employed in Java against leucorrhaea, combined with the bark of the 

 root of Xylocarpus obovatus, which is extremely bitter. Illume. 



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