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[ Cerbera . 
the top, pilose within ; limb an inch across, white with a pink eye. 
Lobes of drupes oblong, 2 in. long. Wight , Ic. t. 441. C. Manghas, Bot. 
Mag. 1. 1845. 
Seychelles, common in the woods of Mahe, Kirk ! Wriglit ! Horne , 246 ! Frequent 
in Tropical Asia, not African. 
2. CARISSA, Linn. 
Calyx minute, deeply 5-toothed. Corolla hypocrateriform, with a 
slender tube internally pilose and 5 pointed lobes, twisted in aestiva- 
tion, Stamens 5, inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube ; fila- 
ments short ; anthers oblong or lanceolate. Ovary of 2 combined carpels ; 
ovules few or many in a cell ; style shorter than the corolla-tube ; 
stigma bifid. Fruit a large or small berry. — Spiny shrubs or trees, with 
opposite coriaceous leaves, and few-flowered axillary cymes. Distbib. 
Tropics of the Old World. Species 20. 
Leaves obtuse. Drupes the size of a plum 1. C. Xylopicron. 
Leaves acuminate. Drupes the size of a cherry . . . 2. C. sechellensis. 
1. C. Xylopicron, Thouars ; A. DC. Prod. viii. 333. A shrub or 
low tree, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves short-petioled, oblong, 
obtuse, glossy, rigidly coriaceous, very variable in size, \-2 in. long, a 
pair of sharp erect spines produced from each fork in the small- 
leaved forms, which do not produce flowers. Cymes from the axils 
of the upper leaves only, 1-6-flowered ; pedicels \ in. long, bract- 
less. Calyx ^ in. long, the deltoid-acuminate teeth exceeding the 
tube. Expanded corolla-limb f in. broad, the acute lanceolate seg- 
ments as long as the slender tube. Anthers lanceolate. Eruit an 
oblong pointed berry an inch long, containing 12-15 seeds. C. coriacea, 
Wall Cat. No. 1681. 
Mauritius, in woods of Flacq, Bois Cheri and Corps de Garde Mountain, now 
scarce. Rodriguez, common, Bouton ! Balfour ! Also Bourbon and Madagascar, if, 
as seems likely, C. madagascariensis of Thouars be conspecifiG. Calac or Bois Amer 
(Maur). Bois Sandal. 
2. C. sechellensis, BaJcer. A tree 30-40 feet high, glabrous in all 
its parts, with slender terete branches. Spines none in the specimens 
seen. Leaves short-petioled, oblong, acuminate, rigid, glossy, cuneate 
at the base, 1\ in. long, with fine immersed veins. Cymes 4-8-flowered, 
short-peduncled, umbellate or corymbose ; pedicels erect, ebracteate, y 
in. long. Calyx under T *y in. long ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate. Corolla- 
tube -f in. long, reddish, hairy within ; teeth lanceolate, acute, whitish, 
as long as the tube. Anthers small, oblong, sessile at the throat of 
the tube. Fruit a red or black berry as large as a cherry. 
Seychelles ; rare, now known only in Silhouette, but said to have once been 
common in the northern forests of Mahe. Wood like sandal- wood and very beautiful. 
Horne , 511 ! Bois Sandal. 
