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of considerable size ; the sensible properties of which are not recorded. 

 No aroma or pungent taste is perceptible in the dried bark of the 

 branches, which are unarmed, and no dots in the foliage, which is very 

 coriaceous. Leaves alternate, glabrous, as are all the parts, ^innately 

 o-5-foliolate ; the petiole and rhachis terete. Leaflets oval, obtuse, 

 more or less unequal at the base, except the terminal one, which is 

 long-petiolulate, the others short-petiolulate, one and a half to two 

 and a half inches long, very opaque, not shining, of the same hue both 

 sides, veiny, entire. Panicles or cymes axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves, short-peduncled, apparently compound and many-flowered : but 

 in the specimens only a few dehiscent carpels remain. There are 

 some traces of at least two carpels to each flower, only one of which 

 has ripened. The follicles are stipitate (stipe 2 lines long), short and 

 turgid, 4 to 5 lines long, somewhat wrinkled and punctate, two-valved 

 from the apex ; the endocarp not readily if at all separating from the 

 exocarp. Seed solitary, filling the cell, oval, with a black and 

 shining, somewhat drupaceous testa of great thickness. Embryo 

 nearly of the length and breadth of the albumen : cotyledons round- 

 oval : radicle superior. 



