98 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



Flores sex sen septem, magni, albi, subsessiles, altcrni prodeunt e 

 ramulorum apice ante folia, quai postea intra tiores erum- 

 punt ; unde flores terminales, fructus latérales. Brocfcce ad 

 singulos flores ternœ, oblong;e, obtiisœ, calj'ce paulo bre- 

 viores, persistentes. 



Cahjx superiis, (juadripartitiis, laciniis subrotundis, concavis, 

 ciliatis. prope fundum disco erecto integro cinctus. Fetala 

 quatuor, coriacea, oblonga, calyce multo longiora, ciliata, 

 oblique revoluta, extra discum inserta. FUamenta plurima, 

 indetinita, subulata, multipliée série disco inserta, basi co- 

 alita, interioribus brevissimis, et intermediis tantum anthe- 

 riferis ina^qualia. Antherce oblongœ. Germen turbinatum, 

 disco concavo tetragono coronatum, ([uadriloculare. Sty- 

 lus teres, longitudine staminum, rectus. Stigma subrotun- 

 dum, quadrilobiun. 



Bacca oviforniis, la^vis, calyce supero persistente umbilicata, 

 carnosa, filamentosa, scptis fere evanescentibus, sed semi- 

 nibus quadrifariam approximatis, et carne interstinctis ob- 

 solete quadrilocularis. Reccptaculnm nullum. <S'e;«/«(7 plura, 

 nidulantia, compressa, glabra, liinc hylo derasa. Integu- 

 ment um coriaceum, crassum. Albumen album, forma semi- 

 nis, carnosum. Embryo recta, teres, utrinque acutiuscula, 

 lonsitucline albuminis centralis. 



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CoVALAM, 7^. 37- ^f//'. 37. 



In a Commentary on the Herbarium Amboinense (i. 197-) I have 

 said every thing that seems necessary concerning this plant. 

 The name Belou, given by the Brahmans of Malabar, is evidently 

 the same with the Bel of the Bengalese dialect, as the commen- 

 tator justly observes ; and Serif ok is his orthography for what I 

 write Sri-phul (the holy fruit). 



Syalita, 



