Am.  Jour.  Pharm, 
August,  1896. 
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membranaceous ;  the  ovary  sessile,  densely  hairy,  furnished  with  a 
style  equalling  it  in  length,  with  a  capitate  stigma,  and  containing 
ten  oblong  ovules  in  two  rows.  The  halves  of  a  hairy  pericarp  (d) 
found  with  the  leaves  showed  that  the  fruit  is  one-celled,  oblique, 
inflated,  about  1  cm.  long  and  7  mm.  broad,  with  a  partially  separ- 
able endocarp,  attached  to  a  slender,  glabrous  pedicel,  iy2  cm. 
a,  young  twig,  leaflets  two-thirds  natural  size  ;  6,  terminal  leaflet  showing 
portion  of  reticulated  venation  ;  c,  imperfect  flower,  showing  ovary  and  style  ; 
d,  pericarp  one-half  natural  size  ;  e,  young  fruit,  with  pedicel. 
long  (<?).  On  showing  the  flowers  to  Mr.  W.  B.  Hemsley,  at  the 
Kew  Herbarium,  he  suggested  that  they  might  belong  to  the  genus 
Sweetia,  in  Leguminosse.  On  comparing  the  leaves  of  that  genus  I 
found  that  they  did  not  correspond  with  those  of  the  drug,  nor  were 
the  fruits  like  the  half  pericarps  I  had.  On  looking  through  the 
allied  genus  Swartzia,  however,  I  found  that  there  were  three  spe- 
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SPURIOUS  MARANHAM  JABORANDI. 
