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FiLowErs.—Many, small, greenish-white, appearing with young 
leaves on short slender pedicels ; collected on small terminal pubescent 
corymbose cymes 1—2 inches in diameter, at the end of the branch- 
lets or on short axillary shoots ; pentamerous ; bisexual. 
CaLyx.—5-parted ; persistent ; 4 or | the size of the corolla. 
CoroLLa.—Valvate, hypogynous ; regular, tubular or funnel-shaped, 
with a 5-lobed reflexed short limb. Tube } to 4 inch long, glabrous 
at the throat, lobes valvate, about 2 inch long ; glabrous ; a few conical 
hairs lower down the tube. 
STAMENS.—95, epipetalous in the throat of the corolla tube, alternating 
with the corolla segments. 
FILAMENTS.—Scarcely any, or exceedingly short ; inserted over the 
bottom of the division of the corolla. 
ANTHERS.—Oblong, glabrous, half within the tube, half out. 
StyLe.—Of the length of the corolla tube; glabrous; filiform. 
Stiama.—Small or short ; undivided, capitate ; sometimes indis- 
tinctly 2-lobed. 
Ovary.—F ree ; 2-celled. 
PLacentas.—Fleshy ; adnate to both sides of the dissepiment. 
Fruir.—A berry, globose, smooth, indehiscent, with a fragile shell- 
like rind, orange-sized and orange-coloured when mature ; filled with a 
soft white jelly-like pulp, which is intensely bitter. 
SEEDS,—immersed in the pulp,—2—5 in number ; 3 inch in diameter, 
circular, discoid, shining, light grey, silky ; not reniform as Brandis 
says, but having one surface convex, and the opposite correspondingly 
concave, with a small foveola in the centre of each side. 
ALBuUMEN,—white, horny or cartilaginous as Gaertener calls it. 
Hupryo.—Very small, compared with the size of the seed; straight, 
eccentric ; milk=white. 
CotyLEpons.—Cordate, acuminate, tri-nerved, very thin. 
RavicLE,—Clavate, very small, placed near the hilum. 
REMARKS. 
The wood is very hard and close-grained, white or grey, with 
numerous medullary rays. One cubic foot weighs 52 pounds. It is 
used for many purposes, such as ploughs, cart-wheels, cots, and fancy 
