CAMRUNGA 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx of five small leaves. 
Corolla of five lanceolate petals. 
Seed-vessel a pentangular fleshy fruit, divided into five 
chambers containing many seeds. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Averrhoa carambola. A. foliis ovatis insequalibus acumina- 
tisj fructibus oblongis acutangulis. 
Linn. Spec. Plant. Willd. 2 . 751. 
Leaves oval, unequal and sharp-point- 
ed 3 fruit oblong and acute-angular. 
A. foliis impari-pinnatis, foliolis ovato- 
acutisj terminale majore, fructuum 
angulis ovatis. Cavan. Diss. 7 . 
p. 374. pi 220. 
Prunum stellatum. Rumph. Ami. 
1. p. 115. pi. 35. 
Tamara Tonga sive Carambolus. 
Rheed. Mai. 3. p. 51. pi. 43 , 44. 
Camrunga. . . . , Bruce, Philos. Trans. 1785. p. 356. 
This plant, like the mimosa, possesses the singular 
faculty of moving when touched ; and is one of 
