ON SELECT INDIAN PLAKTS. 2/9 



Linn. Two-ranked Aloe, A Perfoliate, P ? 



Flowers racemed, pendulous, subcylindric, rather 

 incurved. Bracts, one to each peduncle, avvled, 

 concave, deciduous, pale, with three dark stripes. 

 Corol six-parted ; three external divisions, orange- 

 scarlet ; internal, yellow, keeled, more fleshy, 

 and more highly coloured in the middle. Filaments 

 with a double curvature. Germ six-furrowed. 

 Stigma simple. Leaves awled, two-ranked ; the 

 lowest expanding; sea-green, very fleshy; ex- 

 ternally quite convex, edged with soft thorns ; 

 variegated on both sides with white spots. Van 

 Rheede exhibits the true Aloe by the name of 

 Cumari ; but the specimen brought me by a na- 

 tive gardener, seemed a variety of the two-ranked, 

 though melting into the species, which immedi- 

 ately precedes it in Linnaeus, 



36. Bacula : 



Syn. Cesar a. 



V u l g . Mulsarl, or MulasrL 



Lynn. Mimusops ElenffL 



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Cal. Perianth eight-leaved; leaflets egged, acute, 

 permanent ; four interior 9 simple ; four exterior, 

 leathery. 



Cor. Petals sixteen, lanced, expanding; as long as 

 the calyx-, Nectary eight-leaved; leaflets lanced, 

 converging round the stamen and pistil. 



St am. Filaments eight (or from seven to ten) awled, 

 very short, hairy. Anthers oblong, erect. 



Pi st. Germ above, roundish, villous. Style, cylindric. 

 Stigma obtuse. 



Per. Drupe oval, pointed ; bright orange-scarlet. 



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