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or a little oblique, disposed in two vertical series. The fruit is an 
enormous globular, indehiscent 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 Pangium' is 
known. Itis a Japanese tree, bearing alternate petiolate leaves, with 
two lateral stipules, more or less adnate to the petiole, often per- 
Pangium edule. 

Fia. 327. 
Male flower. 
Pangium edule. 

Fra. 328. Fra. 329, 
Seed. 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 Pangium are placed: Gynocardia, having the same 
general organization, with a valvate but cupuliform calyx allowing 

1 P. edule REINW., Cat. Pl. Buitenz., 112. RADEMACH., Besk. Jav. Pl., 21; Bijd., 52.— 
—Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 109.—Warr.,  Pangi RuMPH, loc. cit—Bucn., Dec., v. t. 7. 
Rep., v. 58; Ann., ii. 62.—Cloak v. Klobach 
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