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acute and much thickened at the apex, grooved on the inner 
surface with two or three deep depressions, deciduous. Stamens 
six, included; filaments nearly triangular, united below and 
adnate to the short tube of the corolla; anthers short-oblong, 
attached on the back below the middle, introrse, two-celled, the 
cells opening laterally. Ovary oblong-obovate, of three carpels 
free below, united above into a slender elongated style; stigma 
minute, terminal on the fruit; ovule solitary, erect from the 
bottom of the cell, anatropous. Fruit drupaceous, one-seeded, 
globose, one third of an inch in diameter, black and lustrous, 
usually bearing at the base the minute abortive carpels ; exocarp 
thin and fleshy ; mesocarp thin, fibrous, orange colored, strong- 
smelling, closely investing the pale brown crustaceous putamen. 
Seed free, subglobose, somewhat flattened below; testa hard, 
chestnut-brown and lustrous, lighter-colored on the ventral side 
with a large pale circular mark; hilum basal; raphe ventral, 
oblong, acute, unbranched ; micropyle joined to the testa by a 
pale band; albumen homogenous; embryo lateral. 
A tree thirty or forty feet in height with one or several 
stems three or four inches in diameter, clothed above for many 
years with the vaginas of the leaf stalks and covered below with 
smooth pale gray bark, and erect or often more or less inclining 
and occasionally semiprostrate. The leaves are terminal, semi- 
orbicular, truncate at the base, thin and firm, bright yellow-green 
~ the upper surface, blue-green on the lower surface, two feet 
wide and long, divided nearly to the base into narrow linear- 
lanceolate lobes, their midribs and margins only slightly thickened 
and pale yellow; rachis acute, its narrow border free, thin and 
membranaceous ; ligule thin, concave, short-pointed, furnished 
with a.deciduous membranaceous red-brown border a quarter of 
an inch wide ; petioles slender, flat on the upper surface, convex 
fe: paid ribbed on the lower surface, from eighteen to twenty 
Wide “ui ra long, one third of an inch wide at the apex, an sor 
testi . cig armed with stout flattened — 
toes i ag thin and firm, bright mahogany-red, very us- 
Closely infolding the stem, their fibers thin and brittle. The 
