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smell described by Eumphius. Perhaps it is the variety called 

 Wani, by Eumphius, which he says is less foetid, the fruit 

 longer, more pointed, and safer to eat that the foetid. I did 

 not hear that the natives ascribe to the fruit of this any nox- 

 ious quality. 



Loureiro's specific difference seems insufficient; I would 

 alter it thus ; Leaves oblong ; panicles terminal ; Stamina five, 

 fertile, connected at the base ; drupe cordate. 



Leea. 



1. Leea staphylca, Eoxb. Found at Soongey Clooan. (Leea 

 sambucina Willd.). 



Carissa. 

 Carissa cannulas. Cultivated. 



Cerbera. 



Cerbera salutaris ? Loureiro ed. Willd. p. 168. 



Leaves oblong oval, scattered ; corymbs terminal. Segments 

 of the calyx cuneate, pointed. Stam : a tree, middle sized, 

 branches spreading. Leaves scattered, crowded towards 

 the ends of the branches ; petiolate, oblong oval, most entire, 

 glossy. Petioles short, wide spreading, smooth. No Stipules 

 nor Bracts. Flowers large (but smaller than those of the 

 Cerbera Manghas) white. Calyx, perianth five leaved, decidu- 

 ous ; leaflets cuneate pointed, spreading. Corolla one petaled, 

 salver shape, contorted tube cylindrical, dilated at the 

 throat, five furrowed, limb, five parted, segments obovate, 

 oblique, one side more gibbous, wide spreading. Five scales, 

 lanceolate, ciliated from the clefts of the corol, horizontally 

 converging, shutting the throat of the tube. Stam : filaments 

 five, adnate to the tube of the corol, opposite to the furrows ; 

 below evanescent, above broader, compressed, shedding a fluid 

 from a triangular papilla, a little below their apices, anthers 

 cordate, furrowed, converging, covered by the scales of the 

 corolla. Pist : Germ roundish, two furrowed. Style capillary, 

 the length of the tube ; Stigma headed, emarginate, embraced 



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