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petals, inserted in one phalanx along the lower edge of the 

 mouth of the calyx, on the upper edge is a ring with eight 

 processes or abortive stamina. Ovary adnate to the side of 

 the calyx below the fertile stamina, densely pilose, disporous. 

 Style lateral, inserted near the base of the ovary, as long as 

 the stamina. Stigma simple. Drupe enclosed in the enlarged 

 calyx which becomes adnate to it and crowned by its per- 

 sistent limb ; obliquely ovate, about the size of a filbert. 

 Nut smooth, one-seeded, with an abortive cell generally above 

 the fertile one. Seed curved corresponding to the cell, 

 albuminous ; embryo cylindrical inverse ; radicle superior, 

 clavato-cylindrical, longer than the ligulate cotyledons. 



PETROCARYA SUMATRANA. (W,J,) 



Foliis elliptico-oblongis subtus canescentibus, calycis ore 

 regulari, staminibus septem fertilibus. 



A tree. Branchlets pilose. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, 

 elliptic-oblong, 6 — 8 inches long, terminating in a bluntish 

 acumen, acute at the base, entire, the adult leaves smooth 

 above, somewhat hoary with close short wool beneath, the 

 younger ones covered with deciduous pubescence above, 

 nerves prominent beneath, veins reticulate. Petioles about 

 a quarter of an inch in length. Stipules longer than the 

 petioles, oblong, acute. Racemes axillary and terminal, 

 shorter than the leaves, tomentose ; pedicels mostly three- « 

 flowered, divaricate. Bracts rather large, concave, at the base 

 of the peduncles, pedicels and flowers. Calyx tubular or 

 campanulate, tomentose without, pilose at the faux, which is 

 equal and regular, limb spreading, five-parted, segments 

 acute. Corolla five-petalled, white, petals inserted on the 

 mouth of the calyx, and as long as its segments. Stamina 

 fourteen, of which seven upper are fertile arranged in one 

 phalanx, and the opposite seven abortive; filaments short, 

 flat, anthers roundish, two-lobed. Ovary adnate to the 

 upper side of the tube or calyx, pilose, two-celled, containing 



