Nxiudea. ?ETTTANDRIA MONOGTNfA. US 



years old trees from fifteen, to twenty-feet.— leares opposite, short, 

 petioled ; from round-cordate to ovate-cordate, obtuse, entire, co- 

 riaceous, smooth; marked with prominent, alternate veins ; the upper 

 surface shining dark green, the under one paler ; length from three to 

 nine inches, and from two to eight broad. — Petioles roundish, smooth, 

 about an inch or an inch and a half long — Stipules interfoliaceous 

 large, roundish, or obovate, apex rounded, marked with numerous, 

 fine veins, caducous. — Peduncles terminal, solitary, and generally in 

 the small lateral branchlets, drooping, each supporting a large, beau- 

 tiful, globular, aggregate head of very fragrant bright-yellow florets. 

 — Bracte a small, irregularly four-toothed, withering ring round the 

 peduncles, near the base, within the stipules. — Calyx, common none, 

 or very obscure ; proper deeply cut into four or five, fleshy, cla- 

 vate, permanent segments, which thicken as the fruit advances in size. 

 — Florets funnel-shaped, four or five-parted. Divisions obovate, ob- 

 tuse. — Filaments very short, from the mouth of the tube just under 

 the fissures of its border. Anthers cordate. — Germ inferior, com- 

 pletely united to each other, their whole length two- celled, each con- 

 taining many imbricated seeds attached to a receptacle rising from 

 the partition a little above its middle. Style much longer than the 

 corol. Stigma oblong, apex obscurely two-lobed, of a beautiful pearl 

 colour. — Fruit aggregate, size of a small apple, round, rough, with 

 the obtuse, fleshy permanent portions of the divisions of the calyces ; 

 the partial seed vessels thereof are firmly united, angular, in- 

 versely conical, two-celled, with a few oblong, imbiicated seeds in 

 each, besides a number of small, brown scales, which are the abor- 

 tive ovula, as may be seen by the sliucture of the germ as well as 

 by their being attached to the same central receptacle ; the full 

 grown seeds are crowned with a greenish, fleshy gland, to which the 

 umbilical cord is fixed. Albumen conform to the seed. — Embryo 

 inverse, straight. Cotyledons oval, Flumula minute.— Radicle 

 cylindric, superior. 



