made; but the dissection of the fruit is from one imported some years ago, by Mr, Allport, 
seedsman, along with those of the Micium Floridanum, and Nelumbium Luteum. 
In its native soil it attains the height of 20 feet. Stem erect with branches radiated as in 
Terminalia; of the secondary ones, those which tend towards the principal stem or branch are 
shorter and sometimes entirely wanting. Leaves alternate, frondose or crowded near the ex. 
tremities of the branches: Petiole from 5 to 3 lines long, cottony especially on the upper side 
which is scarcely channelled: Lamina from 5 to 3 inches long, horizontal, generally obovate. 
Janced, more or less serrated, slightly acuminated, on the upper surface bright green and almost 
calyx, deciduous. Filaments gold colour, inserted in the corolla and somewhat higher towards 
J id f each segment. Anthers pale yellow with a large’ callous disc, Pericarpium 
while young whitish and very silky, somewhat top-shaped, when fully grown spherical. Style 
~ yellow, much thicker than the filaments, cylindrical, smooth. Stigma whitish and deeply 
. 
Seeds bright brown, angulated without any wing, 
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REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1 Calyx. 
ion 
§ Ata” zone i 
7 A seed. 
