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The arillifonn pulp has a pleasant subacid taste, and, like the 

 skin, a weak scent of anise, of which the young leaves likewise 

 j)artake. 



Trunk arboreous, straight. Ba)k gray, scabrous, studded with 

 oblong ochraceous specks ; bursting when old. Branches 

 scattered, spreading. Voung s/ioots, petioles, pedicels and 

 calyces, do\vn3^ 



Leaves alternate, decussate, unevenly pinnate. Leafiefs 3 — 5 

 pairs, with an odd one ; broad-lanceolate, obtusely acu- 

 minate, serrulate ; the largest .5 to 6" inches long, and 2 to 3 

 broad. 



Petioles round, thicker at the base, pubescent. 



Stipules none. 



Panicles axillary, shorter than the leaves, open. 



Flowers very small, yellowish-green. 



Bractes at the base of pedicels, solitary, ovate. 



Perianth inferior, flattish, five-toothed, downy. ToothUis ob- 

 tuse. 



Petals five, ovate to lanceolate^ spreading, exteriorly downy, 

 longer than the stamina. 



Nectary a crenulate, narrow fleshy ring, girding the base of the 

 germ . 



Filaments ten, subulate, alternately shorter, inserted below the 

 nectarial ring. Anthers ovate, two-celled. 



Germ ovate, downy, obsoletely five-angled, five-celled, with one 

 to two ovules in each cell, attached to the upper part of the 

 axis. Style very short. Stigma five-cornered. 



Berry globular, obtuse, sitting on the enlarged pedicel : purple 

 with white dots : size of a damson : 1 — 3-celled. 



Partition thick, dilated in the middle into a short, fleshy pla- 

 centa. 



Pulp 



