Averrhoa. } GERANIACEX. 177 
GERANIACE A, 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or irregular. Sepals 5, rarely 
or less connate. Fruit a capsule, dry, and the valves separating 
m the axis, or fleshy, and elastically dehiscing, rarely a drupe or 
ry. Albumen none or scanty, or fleshy.—Herbs or undershrubs, 
rarely trees, with opposite or alternate simple or variously lobed 
or pinnate leaves. Stipules present. Flowers various, often showy, 
solitary or in various inflorescences. 
AVERRHOA, L, 
Flowers regular. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, twisted. Glands 
none. tam i i 
bumen scanty, fleshy.—Small trees, with alternate unpaired- 
pinnate leaves. Stipules none. Flowers small, in axillary panicles 
or cymes. ? 
‘Fruits sharply angled; seeds arillate . . . . ~. A. Carambola. 
ts obtusely angled ; seeds without arillus - A, Bilimbi. 
more or less obliquely ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glab- 
rous, or rarely more or less pubescent, glaucous beneath ; flowers 
small, purplish, in axillary racemose panicles much shorter than the 
leaves ; Sepals glabrous, about a line long; petals rotundate 3 Sta- 
mens 10, 5 of them usually very minute and without anthers, or 
occasionally ] or 2 of them longer with small barren anthers; ber- - 
Ties bing, about 2 in. long, sharply 5-angled, waxy-green; seeds 
Has.—Much cultivated all over the country in native gardens, etc., in two 
Varieties, the one with sweet, the other with acid fruits. 
REMABKs.—Wood dark-brown. 
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