ON SELECT INDIAN PLANTS. 587 



Cor. Petals five, equal, oblong, reflected. 



St am. Filaments ten, very short, with a small 

 gland between each pair, awled, furrowed. An- 

 thers thick, rive times as long as the filaments ; 

 furrowed, coloured, erect-expanding. 



Pi st. Germ roundish, girt with a downy coronet. 

 Style cylindric, short. Stigma simple. 



Per. Berry large spheroidal, rugged, often warted 

 externally, nerted within ; many seeded. 



Seeds oblong-roundish, flat, woolly, nestling in five 

 parcels, affixed by long threads to the branchy 

 receptacles. 



Flowers. axilla^ mostly toward the unarmed extre- 

 mity of the branch. Divisions of the Perianth with 

 pink tips; petals pale; anthers crimson, or cover- 

 ed with bright yellow pollen. Fruit extremely acid 

 before its maturity; when ripe, filled with dark 

 brown pulp, agreeably subacid. Leaves jointedly 

 feathered with an odd one ; leaflets five, seven, or 

 nine ; small, glossy, very dark on one side, in- 

 verse-hearted, obtusely-notched,- dotted round the 

 margin with pellucid specks, very strongly fla- 

 voured and scented like anise. Thorns long, sharp, 

 iblitary, ascending, nearly cross-armed, axillary, 

 three or four petiols. to one thorn. Kleinhoff 

 limits the height of the tree to thirty feet, but we 

 have young trees forty or fifty feet high; and at 

 Bandell there ha. full-grown Capittlui equal in size 

 to the true Bilva ; from its fancied refemblance to 

 which the vulgar name has been taken. When the 

 trees flourish, the air around them breathes the odour 



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