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Cor, Four or five petals j mostly reflex. 



Stam. Forty to forty - eight filaments ; anthers 

 mostly erect. 



Pist. Germ> roundish; Style smooth, short ; Stigma 

 clubbed. 



Peric, A spheroidal berry, very large; many- 

 seeded. 



Seeds, Toward the :urface ovate, in a pellucid 

 mucus. 



Leaves. Ternate ; corrmon petiole long; leaflets 

 subovate j obtusely notdied with short petioles ; 

 some almost lanced. 



Stem, Armed with sha-p thorns. 



Uses. The fruit nutritious, warm, cathartic ; in 

 taste delicious, in fragran:e exquisite : its aperient 

 and detersive quality, and Its efficacy in removing ha- 

 bitual costiveness, having jeen proved by constant 

 experience. The mucus «f the seed is, for some 

 purposes, a very good cemeit. 



Note, This fruit is called Srip'hala, because it 

 sprang, say the Indian poets from the milk of Sri, 

 the Goddess of Abundance, wlo bestowed it on man- 

 kind at the request of Iswara, vhence he alone wears 

 a chaplet of Btlva flowers : to him only the Hindus 

 offer them ; and, when they see any of them fallen 

 on the ground, they take them up with reverence, 

 and carry them to his temple. From the first blossom 

 of this plant, that I could inspect, I had imagined 

 that it belonged to the same class with the Durio, be- 

 cause the filaments appeared tc be distributed in five 

 sets ; but in all that I have since examined, they are 

 perfectly distinct. 



III. SRINGATACA. 

 Four and One. 



Cal. Fourcleft, with a long peduncle above. 

 Cor, Fou petals. 



