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PisTIL :— 
Sryiu.—Slender, filiform, tapering atithe apex to half the size it 
has near the ovary, projecting slightly beyond the filaments. 
Strema.—Simple, a mere depression at the apex, turning brown 
about the time the anthers burst and throw out their ample, 
impalpable offensive-smelling pollen. 
Ovary.—Inferior, coherent with the tube of the calyx, 1-celled, 
always tomentose. 
Ovu.E.—Pendulous from the apex of the cavity. 
Frurr.—DeCandolle, Roxburgh, Wight and Arnott, Dymock, Lyon, 
&e., all agree in calling the fruit a “ Drupe.” Clarke in Hooker’s 
Flora of British India discards this name. A drupe, according to the 
signification assigned to the term by modern Botanists, is morphologi- 
cally a different fruit; and accustomed as I am to the arrangement 
and terminology of Bentley as regards Fruits, I think that the fruit 
of Terminalia bellerica being inferios cannot strictly be called a drupe, 
which is a superior mono-carpellary fruit, that is to say, formed of a 
single flower, the ovary of which is made up of a single carpel. Clarke 
calls it drupaceous, and. that is a more accurate term for it, The fruit 
is fleshy, indehiscent, 4+-—# inch in diameter, ovoid, grey or tan- 
coloured, velvety when young, turning into reddish or deep buff- 
colour as it matures, with five more or less distinct furrows # to 1 
inch long. The skin becomes coriaceous as the fruit grows older ; 
epicarp and mesocarp shrivel as the fruit dries up after it is detached 
from the parent tree. The fruit ripens during the cold season, It is 
so persistent that the fruit which ripened last cold weather can even 
now be seen in the jungles in the middle of May on the trees just as 
they are throwing out the fresh foliage and flower-stalks of the current 
season. 
Nout.—Thick and hard, rough, irregularly coarse-grained, varying 
from $—# inch in length ; }—4 inch at its broadest part, which is 
about the middle. 
SrErpD.—One, which constitutes the kernel in the nut, The nut 
yields a bland oil and is sweet to taste. 
ALBUMEN.—None, says Clarke, as also Roxburgh. 
CoryLEpons.—Conyolute ; creamy white colour. 
Empryo.—Inyerse, spiral. 
