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Stigma with linear-spathulate branches. Fruit very bony, pyramidal, 

 its apex acute, with 4 bold angles, the spaces between the angles often 

 with large tubercles, 1 in. long and as much in breadth from angle to 

 a,ngle, usually with 1 or more seeds ; entirely enveloped in the much- 

 inflated glabrous accrescent apiculate calyx. Wall. Cat. 9063; DC. 

 Prod. IX. 477 ; Seem. Fl. Viti, t. 34 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. IV. 385 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 209 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 140 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 914. C. orientalis, E. Br. Prod. 498. C. cam- 

 pamtlata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. II. 336. C. Eujuphii, 

 Blume Bijdr. 843. G. hexandra, Eoem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 799. 

 Eumph. Herb. Amb. 11. t. 75. 



Peeak : ,Scor^ec7wm 1084. Bindings : C'wr^/s 3447. Kedab. : Eidley 

 5526. Pahang : Bidley 2158. — Disteib. British India, Malay Archi- 

 pelago, Australia, Sandwich Islands. Widely cultivated in other places. 



2. CoEDiA Myxa, Linn. Sp. PL 190 (1753). A tree, 40 to 50 feet 

 high; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, glabrous. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous ; broadly ovate, apex sub-acute or obtuse, the base slightly 

 cordate ; upper surface when diy dark brown, glabrous, faintly reticu- 

 late ; the lower paler brown, distinctly and minutely reticulate, the 

 transverse veins very prominent, glabrous except for some pubescence 

 on the midrib and 5 or 6 pairs of curved ascending main-nerves ; length 

 3 to 3-75 in., breadth 2 to 2-75 in. ; petioles "75 to 1-25 in. Cymes 

 trichotomous, shorter than the leaves, terminal. Male and female 

 flowers often in the same tree, mostly 5-merous. Calyx campanulate, 

 more than -25 in. long, glabrous, smooth outside, silky inside. Corolla 

 with its tube included in the calyx, the lobes projecting and '15 in. 

 long, reflexed ; style in the $ flowers short, 4-cleft, absent in the 

 3' . Fruit ellipsoid, with acute apex and rounded base, compressed, 

 with 3 or 4 angles (one or more of them indistinct), '75 in. long and 

 •4 in. broad, 2- or more-seeded ; the persistent accrescent calyx 

 leathery with strong vertical reticulations, widely campanulate, its 

 mouth ^vith shallow irregular crenations, length -25 in., width -4 to 

 •5 in. DC. Prod. IX. 479 ; Delile Fl. ^gypt. t. 19, fig. 1 ; Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind., ed. Carey & Wall., II. 232; Wall. Cat. 889; Wight lU. t. 169; 

 Benth. Fl. Austral. IV. 386 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 245, fig. A ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 336 {in part) ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 208 ; Boiss. Fl. Or. IV. 

 124 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 915 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 

 136 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 193 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 199 ; Prain Beng. 

 Plants 714. C. Myxa, var. b. minor only, Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 214. 

 C. indica, Lamk Diet. VII. 49 ; DC. Prod. IX. 500. C. officinalis and 

 C. africana, Lamk 111. II. 420, and t. 96, fig. 3. C. Sesbestena, Forsk. 

 Fl. Aeg.-Arab. LXIII. C. panicidata, Eoth Nov. Spec. 124 ; DC. Prod. 



