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The fresh bark of the root, rubbed with plain water, is by the 

 natives applied externally to remove almost every sort of swelling. 

 It is a very stiong astringent, possessing scarcely any other sensible 

 quality. 



VARECA, Gaert. 



Calyx five-leaved, or five-parted. Carol five-petalled. Germ 

 superior, one-celled ; ovula numerous, their attachment parietal. 

 Berry one-celled. Seeds a few, inserted on the three parietal recep« 

 tacles. 



]. V. moluccana, R. 



Leaves alternate, lauceolar. Peduncles axillary, many-flowered. 

 filaments free. 



A «mail tree, from fifteen to twenty feet in height, a native of the 

 Molucca islands, and from thence introduced into the botanic gar- 

 den ai Calcutta, in 1798, where it blossoms in October and Novem- 

 ber, and again in March, April, and May ; but has not yet, though now 

 fourteen years in Bengal, produced even well-formed fruit, so that 

 the genus is still doubtful. 



Trunk erect. Branches numerous, between erect and patent. 

 Bark of the old parts smooth, and ash-coloured ; of the young shoots 

 with a little, short, ferruginous pubescence.:— Leam' alternate, about 

 the end of the branchlet, short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, waved, 

 acute, smooth, and glossy above; from four to twelve inches long, 

 and from one to four broad.— Stipules none.— Peduncles axillary, so- 

 litary, about an inch long, qrany*flowered, villous. — Flowers middle- 

 sized, white, inodorous, pedice'lled.— Bractes small, caducous. — Ca- 

 lyx one-leaved, five- toothed, villous, caducous. — Petals five, linear- 

 oblong, recurved, many times longer than the calyx. — Filaments five, 

 inserted on the receptacle, shorter than the germ, and pressing upon 

 it. Anthers sagittate.— Germ superior, oblong, torulose, villous, 

 one-celled, with many ovula, attached to two or three, parietal recep=» 

 tacles. Style short. Stigma pretty large, two- or thiee-lobed. 



