ajjcl certain Indian Tcnbinthacece. 3(>3 



Pulp fibrous, arilliform, closely adherent to the shell of the py- 

 rene, especially to the umbilical chink. 



Pi/rcne single in each mature cell, size of a cherry-stone, round- 

 ish, with gibbous back and Hat belly ; greenish-yellow. 



Shell stony, thick : swollen at the umbilical chink. 



Seed solitary, oblong, concave on one side, convex on the 

 other. 



Integument single, crustaceous, white : barely marked witii the 

 rhaphe. 



Perisperm none. 



Fjmhryo inverse, slightly bowed, greenish-white, brittle amygda- 

 loid. 



Cotyledons foliaceous, thin, intricately folded, chrysaloid. T\a- 

 diclc superior, cylindric, obtuse, thick. 



Plumule obscure. 



Seminal leaves of the germinating plantule, ovate, three-lobed, 

 denticulate. 



BoswELLiA sERRATA. Po.vb. C. yls. Res. ix. p. 377 , cum tab. 



Tab. V. Pig. 1. 



Germ superior, conical, three-sided, three-celled, with two ovules 

 in each cell attached to the top of the axis. 



Style cylindric. Stigma three-lobed. 



Ca/;5///t^ three-sided ; sides oval, three-celled, three-valved, open- 

 ing spontaneously at the edge ; valves smooth, hard, brown. 



Seeds solitary ; the second ovule in each cell being abortive : 

 broad-cordate, with a fine membranaceous wing all around. 



Perisperm none , 



Embryo conform to the seed, inverse, pale-yellow. Cotyledons 

 intricately folded, multifid. Radicle superior, short, co- 

 nical. 



Peg I A 



