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Stem : shrubby, very branchy. Branchlets : alternate, 

 straight, round, spreading. Leaves : alternate, horizontal, 

 petioled, ovate, acute, most entire, smooth, hoary below. 

 Petioles : very short, very slender. Flowers : monoicous, very 

 small, the males yellow, the females green. Peduncles : axil- 

 lary, very short, very slender, drooping the lower, one, two or 

 three together, bearing male flowers ; the upper, solitary bear- 

 ing females. In the Male flowers, Calyx Perianth one leafed 

 turbinate, fleshy, pubescent without ; six toothed obtuse, con- 

 verging. Corolla none. Nectary none. Stam : Filament one, 

 columnar : Anthers four, oblong, adhering lengthways to the 

 filament below its point. In the Females. Cal : as in male. 

 Cor: none. Nectary none. Pist: Germ pear-shaped, the size 

 of the calyx, perforated at the top. Style none, stigmas three, 

 awl-shaped, minute, rising from the edges of the perforation, 

 converging. Capsule very small, globular, smooth, scarlet with 

 yellow streaks, six valved, one celled. Seeds six, without 

 convex, within angled, smooth. 



Grows everywhere among the underwood. 



PENTANDRIA. 



Nephelium, Schreb. No. 1425. 



Nephelium lappaceum, Gmel. 2, 464. Rambootan. Mai. i. e. 

 hairy. 



This is a pleasantly subacid fruit, the pulp which covers 

 the seed resembles that in the Leechee, and is the edible part. 

 The fruit is of a fine crimson colour, covered with long subulate, 

 soft bristles, whence the Malay name. 



The flowers I examined appeared to be all hermaphrodite; 

 so that a farther examination and revision of the generic 

 character may be required. 



HEXANDRIA. 



COCOS, Schreb. No. 1692. 



Cocos nucifera, Gmel. 2, 569. The Cocoa-nut. Malay, 

 Clapa. 



R. A. Soc, No. 53, 1909. 



