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Spec. Cuan. Tree: 20 feet: leaves elliptical, serrulated, acu- 
minated: branches somewhat climbing : corymbs axillary, dichoto- 
mous : carpels linear-oblong, somewhat cuneated : flowers greenish- 
yellow. 
Chittagong, flowering in May. 
GENUS I. SALACIA. 
Triandria Monogynia. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. From Salacia, the wife of Neptune. 
Gen. Car. Shrubs or small trees: calyx 5-cleft: petals 5, 
inserted between the disk and the calyx: stamens inserted on the 
top of the disk, or between the disk and the ovary: filaments dis- 
tinct: anther-lobes divaricating at the base, 2-celled, dehiscing 
lengthwise: ovary 3-celled, with 2 or more ovules in each celF: 
stigma obsoletely 3-lobed: fruit indehiscent, fleshy, often 1-celled 
by abortion: seeds solitary, without wings, pulpy. 
(1) S. prinores. (Dec.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 105.—Dec. prod. I. p. 571. 
Syn. Tonsella prinoides, Willd. — Johnia Coromandeliana, 
Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 169. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 321. 
Spec. Cuan. Shrub: leaves oblong, acuminate, serrulated, 
coriaceous : pedicels fascicled on an axillary tubercle, 1-flowered : 
calyx-lobes round, more or less puberulous and ciliated: petals 
broadly-ovate, unguiculate, quite entire: disk large, cup-shaped, 
thick and fleshy: ovules 2, superposed: fruit nearly globose, 1- 
celled, 1-seeded, about the size of a small cherry: flowers very 
small, greenish. 
Malabar. Coromandel. Warree country. Flowering in Decem- 
ber. The fruit is eatable. 
(2) S. Roxsureuu. (Wall.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 105. 
. Syn. Johnia Salacioides, Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 168.—Dec. prod, 
.p. 571. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub: leaves oblong-lanceolate, bluntly acumi- 
nated, nearly quite entire, coriaceous: pedicels several together on an 
axillary tubercle, 1-flowered: calyx-lobes round: petals orbicular, 
entire, sessile: disk cup-shaped, thick and fleshy, obscurely 3. 
toothed at the apex: anthers almost sessile on the teeth of the disk : 
ovules 2 in each cell: fruit globose, 2-3-seeded, about the size of 
a crab-apple: flowers small, greenish-orange. 
Chittagong. Ram Ghaut, Flowering in the hot season, 
