AURANTIACEJE. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 105. 



BERGERA. 



Flowers and carpels unsymmetrical. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 

 5, spreading. Stamens 10: filaments distinct, subulate, com- 

 pressed below : anthers ovate. Ovary oval, 2-celled ; with one 

 ovule in each cell, attached by its middle to the middle of the 

 axis. Style long, thick. Fruit baccate, usually 1 -celled and 

 1-seeded. Seed surrounded with mucilage : seed-coat mem- 

 branous, glabrous : cotyledons glabrous, conspicuously auricled 

 at their base : radicle villous. A small tree with pinnate 

 leaves. W. and A. 



313. B. Konigii Linn. mant. 565. Roxb. corom. ii. t. 112. 

 fl. ind. \. 375. DC. prodr. i. 537. W. and A. i. 94. Moun- 

 tainous coast of Coromandel. 



A small tree, with the bark of an alder. Leaves stalked, unequally 

 pinnate; leaflets alternate, short-stalked, ovate-lanceolate, rhomboidal, 

 oblique, smooth or downy, somewhat serrated. Corymbs terminal, 

 compound, shorter than the leaves, spreading. Bracts pressed close 

 to the pedicels, small, solitary, lanceolate, deciduous. Flowers small 

 white. Bark and root used as stimulants by the native physicians of 

 India ; externally employed against the bites of poisonous animals; green 

 leaves prescribed to be eaten raw in dysentery : also bruised and 

 applied externally to cure eruptions. Roxb. 



FERONIA. 



Flowers often polygamous. Calyx flat, 5-toothed. Petals 5 

 (occasionally 4 or 6) spreading. Stamens 10: filaments dilated 

 and united at the base : anthers linear-oblong, tetragonal. Ovary 

 seated on the elevated disk, 5- (occasionally 6-) celled : ovules 

 numerous in each cell. Style scarcely any. Stigma oblong. 

 Fruit baccate, with a hard rind, 5-celled, many-seeded. Seeds 

 immersed in a fleshy pulp. Trees. Leaves pinnated : leaflets 

 5-7, nearly or quite sessile, obovate, very slightly crenulated, 

 pellucid-dotted along the margin, inconspicuously so elsewhere ; 

 common petiole slightly winged. Racemes lax, few-flowered, 

 terminal and axillary. W. and A. 



314. F. elephantum Corr. in Linn, trans, v. 224. Roxb. corom. 

 ii. t. 141. DC. prodr. i. 538. W. and A. i. 96. Anisifolius 

 Rumph. ii. t. 43. East Indies. (Elephant- or wood-apple ; 

 Capittha As. Res.) 



161 M 



