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Pangium edule. 



or a little oblique, disposed in two vertical series. The fruit is an 

 enormous globular, indelii scent berry, the interior containing a great 

 number of large seeds, lodged in 

 the pulp, irregular, compressed, pre- 

 senting upon one of the edges a 

 long, narrow, umbilical cicatrix, 

 the woody coats bearing exter- 

 nally a rich network of prominent 

 nerves. In the interior is found 

 a thick oily albumen, at the centre 

 of which is a large embryo, with 

 more or less oblique conical radicle, 

 and large foliaceous cotyledons, cor- 

 date or digitinerved at their base. 

 Only one species of JPangium x is 

 known. It is a Japanese tree, bearing alternate petiolate leaves, with 

 two lateral stipules, more or less adnate to the petiole, often per- 



Fig. 327. 

 Male flower. 



Pangium edule. 



Fig. 328. 

 Seed. 



Fig. 329. 



Longitudinal section of seed. 



sistent, and a cordate limb digitinerved at the base, entire or tri- 

 lobed. Its flowers are axillary, the female ones solitary, the male 

 disposed in ramified clusters of cymes. 



Close beside Panyium are placed : Gi/nocardia, having the same 

 general organization, with a valvate but cupuliform calyx allowing 



1 P. edule Reinw., Cat. PI. Buitenz., 112. Rademach., Besh. Jav. PL, 21; Bijd., 52. — 

 — Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 109. — Walp., Pangi Rumpit., loc. cit. — Buch., Bee, v. t. 7. 

 Rep., v. 58 j Ann., ii. 62. — Cloak v. Klohach 



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