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the two male flowers are situated at the sides above those of the female, and are 

 not prominent. 



The ripe fniit is exactly spherical, 12-13 mm. in diameter when dry, and 

 has the remains of the stigmas placed, in the form of a small three-lobed 

 tubercle, in about the middle of one of the sid«s, and may be easily overlooked. 

 The pericarp is on the whole, very little over a millimeter thick; the epicarp 

 is pellicular and in the dry condition is rendered minutely and rather obso- 

 letely granulose by small punctiform, or very shortly linear .sclerosomes ; under 

 the epicarp is found a very thin layer of fleshy tissue, then another layer 

 grumose or granulose, and within this lie several flattened fibres, which form a 

 kind of sac, covering the entire seed; they are coarse and interlacing, or net- 

 like anastomising, on the upper part of the seed, and remain independent, 

 parallel and disposed in 2-3 layers in the remainder; in time, when the pericarp 

 falls into decay the fine and very acuminate ends of these fibres form a kind 

 of brush at the base of the fruit. Some of the innermost fibres of the mesocarp 

 are very thin, flattened, almost hyaline, and remain adherent to the surface 

 of the seed, or more correctly to the endocarp, which is extremely thin and 

 connected with the testa of the seed all over the surface of this, except at the 

 base, in proximity to the hilum. whore it forms a kind of papyraceous, straw- 

 colored, non-adherent, suborbicular, thin shield, 5-6 mm. in diameter. 



The seed is globular, 11 mm. in diameter, has a dull hazel brown surface, 

 upon which there usually remain adherent and slightly impressed some of the 

 inner, soft, whitish, very thin fibres of the mesocarp ; the vascular branching 

 of the raphe forms a complete network all around, but this is very superficial 

 and not very apparent; the hilum is linear and extends over to about the fifth 

 part of the circumference of seed; the albumen is deeply irregularly radiately 

 ruminate, and has an irregular fissure in its center; the embryo is exactly 

 basilar, and penetrates the third part of the mass of the seed; its position is 

 recognizable externally by a small depression, which is covered by the shield- 

 like portion of the endocarp. The fruiting perianth is rather shallowly 

 cupular, 7 mm. in diameter; the sepals and petals are rigid, dry in texture, 

 reddish brown; the sepals are reniform, callous and gibbous at their bases; 

 the petals are twice as long as the sepals, broader than high, very obtusely 

 apiculate, nitent inside, finely striately veined externally. (Figure 144.) 



E. globosa is a fine tree with a smooth cylindrical trunk, attaining the 

 height of 10-15 m., perhaps more, from 12-15 cm. in diameter, and distinctly 

 ringed by the leaf-scars. The leaves are large and very regularly pinnate. 

 It seems a rather variable plant with regard to some of its vegetative features, 

 having the leaves of a more or less rigid teJtture, and varying, also, exceedingly 

 as to the development of the branches of the spadix, these being sometimes 

 short and rigid, at other times elongate, flaccid and sinuous. I have, however, 

 found the most perfect identity of the flowers and fruits in all the numerous 

 specimens I have examined, which come from almost every island of the 

 Antilles, from Cuba to Grenada, the most southern of the Lesser Antilles. It 

 is true that the specimens coming from this last island, to which properly the 



