534 DATISCACER. [ Tetrameles. 
long petioles, palmately 7-9-lobed, with the shorty acuminate lobes 
entire or again lobed, glabrous, entire, 14 to 24 ft. in diameter ; 
flowers white, very shortly pedicelled, cymose, forming long- 
peduncled, glabrous, pendulous, axillary, bractless panicles; parila of 
females with a tube las 3 in, long, the lobes oblong-lanceolate, 
4-5 lin. long ; female flowers much larger and thick, sessile, with- 
out a tube, the petals oblong, about an inch long, saccate at the 
base ; fruits oboval, obtuse, from 4 to 1 ft. long, green, then yellow- 
ish, smooth, obsoletel y 5-angular, the whole inner surface covered 
with seeds, ‘the latter about a line long, black, tubercled, surrounded 
by a succulent, thin, pellucid arillus. 
Has.—Generally cultivated all over Burma and adjacent ge sometimes 
springing up spontaneously.—Fl. Fr. nearly the whole year. SS.—= 
Remakks.—Wood spongy, fibrous, coarse and very eek Baden a 
white resin. The milky juice of the unripe fruit is a powerful v 
Water i impregnated with the milky juice makes all sorts of meat une 2 
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DATI. 8 CACEZ. 
Pernales =< her. maphrodites : ee ate adnate to she ovary ; : 
lobes 3-8. Stamens as in the males or reduced to staminodes. 
Ovary 1-celled, open or closed at the summit; placentas parietal, 
with many anatropous ovules in 2 or more series ; styles as many as 
placentas, simple or 2-parted, stigmatic inside or terminated by 
capitate stigmas. Capsule membranous or coriaceous, dehiscing 
between the styles, many-seeded. Seeds minute, the testa punctate 
or striate. Embryo cylindrical, imbedded in the axis of ue scanty 
ince: radicle elongate, next the hilum.—Large trees or herbs, 
with simple or gases leaves. 
TETRAMELES, R. Br. 
Flowers dioecious. Petalsnone. Males: calyx-tube very short ; 
al. 
angular or none. Females: ae almost PaNetitcog with 4 
short lobes. Staminodes none. hie open at the apex, the ovules 
nserted in 3-4 rows on the parietal — ; Po 4, short, 
Capsule membranous, open a ; and 
4 styles.—Large trees. Flowers inspikes simple 
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