J^OTICED IN THE PRECEJDING TOUR. 3^1 



fruit is a drupe, about the size of a small nutmeg, 

 of a round oval, the nut bony, furrowed, one celled, 

 one seeded, covered with a thin pulp, with a carbun- 

 cled surface, red when ripe, and very agreeable to 

 the taste, higlily esteemed by the natives. The 

 branches are opposite, cylindrical, much marked 

 with the vestiges of fallen leaves, Leaves irregu- 

 larly opposite, rather crowded about the extremi- 

 ties of the branches, petioled, ovate, pointed, 

 sometimes elliptical, entire, smooth : petioles short, 

 channelled. Tlowers, according to information, 

 from the natives, in the month of March. It 

 would probably bear the climate of Britain. 



No jvime.— [n the neighbourhood of Hurdzcar, a 

 large sprea<bng tree, without ibliage, or ilowers, 

 the full peiicarps hanging in many clusters, con- 



. sisting of live inflated large kidney-shape capsules, 

 united at one end to the apex of a s)>ort wood}-, 

 peduncle, pointed at the other, the points inclined 

 inwards, each capsule in size, &c. res-embiing the 

 follicle of Asckpias-gigantea, downy, pnc-ceiled, 

 with a dorsal suture the whole length. Seeds from 

 six to eight, ovate, about the size of a citron 

 seed, black, covered with a white mealy substance, 

 attached by one end to the edges of the suture. 

 Some appearances warrant the conclusion it is a 

 species oi' Stcrculia. From the body of the tree 

 exudes a M'hite pellucid gum, discovering similar 

 projierties to the gum taken fi om StcrcuUa-platam^ 

 folia, and which, so much resembles gum iraga- 

 cantli, that it has been collected and sold, on thc' 

 supposition of being such. Whether it will stand 

 the test and be received as such in Kuvojk, time 

 will show. The plant producing that genuine gum, 

 is not found on this sidepf///(://^/, to the best ufmv 

 iutprniatioii. 



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