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containing from eight to fourteen florets. Partial 

 calyXy none. 



Cor. None. Nectary , many yellow glands on the 

 pedicel of the filaments. 



Stam. Filaments from eight to eighteen in each 

 floret, connected by a short villous pedicel, thread- 

 form, very hairy. Anthers large netted, irregular, 

 inflated, containing the pollen. 



P 1 s t. Rudiments of a germ and style withering. 



Female Flowers 



Cal. Common Perianth as in the male, but smaller; 

 containing from ten to twelve florets. 



Partial calyx none, unless you assume the corol. 



Cor. many petaled, belled. Petals erect lance- 

 linear, fleshy, covered within, and externally with 

 white hairs. Nectary, yellow glands sprinkling the 

 receptacle. 



Pi st. Germ oval. Style cylindric, curved at the 

 base. Stigma headed. 



Per. Berry globular, one-seeded. 



Seed spherical, smooth. 



Flowers umbelled, yellow from their anthers. Leaves 

 mostly oblong-lanced, but remarkably varying 

 in shape, alternate. Both flowers and fruit have an 

 agreeable scent of lemon-peel ; and the berries, as 

 a native gardener informs me, are used as a spice 

 or condiment. It was from him that I learned the 

 Sanscrit name of the plant : but as ball) means a 

 creeper, and as the Pippal-jhanca, is a tree perfectly 

 able to stand without support, I suspect in some de- 

 gree the accuracy of his information ; though I 



cannot 



