ON MARUPA, A NEW GENUS OF SIMARUBACEZ. 259 
rubacea. The fruit is obovate, seated on the persistent gynophorus, 
at the base of which are the unchanged sepals, and on one side, and 
at the base of the fruit outside, are plainly seen the vestiges of the 
abortive carpels within the hollow formed by the creniform lobes 
of the gyn The epicarp is obovate, quite smooth, thin, and 
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These details show that D/arupd is far remote from Odina, that it 
does not belong to Anacardiacea, but to Simarubacea, where it will 
albuminous seeds. J/arupd comes nearer the Picrolemma of Dr. 
Hooker, which differs from it in having 4-merous parts 1m the gf, and 
5-merous in the @ ; in its 5-partite fertile ovary, consisting of 5 free 
carpels, united at their base by a gland, which bears a single fogs and 
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