ZZ ON THE PLANT MORINDA, 



Anthers linear, erect. 



Pistil: Germ beneath*. Style thread -form, longer 



than the stamens. Stigma two-cleft, thickish. 

 Pericarp : common, irregular, divided on the surface 

 into irregular angular spaces; composed of berries 

 pyramidal, compressed on all sides by the adjacent 

 ones, and concreted with them, lopped, containing, 

 towards the base, a fleshy pulp. 

 Seeds in each berry four, towards the point oblong, 

 externally convex, internally angular. 

 The species here described is called by Linnjeus 

 Morinda arbor ea peduncidis solitariis ; and he gives it 

 the trivial name of citrifolia-, but the form of the 

 leaves, in all the specimens I have seen, does not exhi- 

 bit this similitude, as will appear by the inspection of 

 the accompanying figure, which was drawn from na- 

 ture. There are figures of it given by Rumphius 

 (Herb. Amboin. vol. 3. tab. 99) who calls it Bancu- 

 dus latifolia, and by Rheede (Hort. Malab. vol. 1, 

 tab. 52) who calls it Cada-pilava. In Malava it is 

 called ida]\ and in Oude it has. the name of Atchy. 



The plant grows best in a black rich soil, free from 

 stones, in situations moderately moist, not too high, 

 yet sufficiently elevated to prevent the water of the 

 rains from stagnating ; and where there is near at 

 hand a supply of water for the dry months. It is 

 sown about the middle or end of June, after the rain 

 has begun to fall. The ground requires no manure; 



* The Germ is four-celhd, and contains the rudiments of four 

 seeds. 



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