PLATE CCXLIY. 



a is an ovoid fruit of the Kaithd (Feronia elephantum). It is covered with a fawn-coloured 

 epidermis, more dense at the apex, b and c are the compound leaves of this Feronia. 

 They are crenated as in c, although in fc the crenations are not shown. The leaflets 

 have sparse oil-cells; also in the angles, between the crenations, and on the edges of 

 the margined petiole. Sometimes the oil-cells of the blades require a high-power glass 

 to bring them out, while those of the edges are distinct and like minute pearls. When 

 crushed, they have the scent of aniseed, d is a small trifoliolate leaf, and e is the 

 spine. The older branches, in the axillte of the spines, have small tufty branchlets, 

 with five or six leaves. The fruit of the Feronia, though solid and heavy, floats in 

 water. 



/ and a are a fruit of the Feronia of the shape of an inverted pear. It is covered with a furfuraceous 

 epidermis, of an earth-colour, and easily scraped off. g shows the internal structure 

 of the fruit. At g' are the cells of the woody rind, filled with a hard concretion. 

 The fruit appears to consist of five large, and imperfectly closed carpels, AA, They 

 appear to consist only of the skeletons of the carpels, that is of the feeding vessels, 

 at the ends of many of which seed-buds are developed. BB appears to be another 

 whorl of carpels, alternating with the first. They have their feeding vessels straight, 

 filling the centre of the fruit with seed-buds, at the same time pushing out of the 

 way, and curving inwards the edges of carpels A. In the section, some of the seeds 

 are seen of full size, while others are seen hi part, and belong to a lower level. As 

 in the JEgle, the carpels of the Feronia are embedded in a dense pithy substance, 

 homologous to the pith of the orange rind. It filh the fruit, h is the normal leaf 

 of an JBgle I found at the temple of Tanjore, with very thick leaflets ; so much so, 

 that when bent, they snapped. Usually the leaves of the ./Egle are very thin. The 

 fruit of this 2Egle was small and ovoid. 



