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goides, D. Don. The species, 51 in number, are all of Asiatic 

 origin. The genus differs from Palura in its trilocular ovary and 

 fruit, and many other characters. 



Lodhra, Decaisne. — Symplocos (in parte) auctorum. 



Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx parvus, campanulatus, 5-dentatus, denti- 

 bus obtusis, imo pluribracteolatus. Corolla tubulosa, senriquinque- 

 fida ; segmenta oblonga, quincuncialiter imbricata. Stamina numerosa, 

 inaequalia, triseriata, tubo corolla: inserta, et hac subbreviora ; anther a 

 oblongo-ovatae, 2-lobae, margine dehiscentes ; stylus filiformis ; discus 

 epigynus, conicus, ssepe pilosus; stigma subcapitatum. Ovarium sub- 

 inferum, disco carnoso superatum, triloculare ; ovula plura vel pand- 

 ora, ssepius 4 in quoque loculo superposita, axi suspensa. Fructus 

 baccatus, ovatus aut oblongus, calycis limbo discoque coronatus ; nux 

 ovata, apicem versus contracta, rugoso- striata, crasse ossca, abortu 

 unilocularis et monosperma, dissepimentis membranaceis ad parietem 

 adpressls, rarius bilocularis et disperma. Semen oblongb-cyliudricum, 



utrinque obtusum ; embryo in albumine copioso teres, paullo curvatus; 

 radicula oblonga, supera, cotyledones 2, inferae, lineares, ilia dimitlio 

 breviores et sequilatse, rarius longiores. 

 Arbores, sufFruticesve Asiatics, ramosce ; folia elliptica aut lanceolata, 

 Integra vel serrulata, petiolata ', racemi axillares ; flores plures y parvi. 



1. L. CRAT\asGorD£S, Decaisne in Jacquinot Voy. p. 108, 

 tab. 110. — Symplocos cratsegoides, D. Don, Flor. Nepal, p. 145 ; 

 G. Don, Diet. iv. p. 3 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. p. 258. — S. paniculata, 

 Wall. Cat. 4429. — Palura odorata, Ham. in Herb. In India : 

 v. s. in herb, meo (17615), Khasya (Griffiths). 



2. L. Lohu, nob. — Symplocos Lohu, D. Don, Flor. Nepal. 

 p. 144; G. Don, Diet. I. c. p. 2; A.DC. I. c. p. 255. — S. lucida, 

 Wall, (non Broqn. Sf Gris.) Cat. 4414. In India : v. s. in herb, 

 meo (7614 et 19534), Khasya {Griffiths). 



3. L. Samuktia, nob. — Symplocos Samuntia, D. Don, I. c. p. 

 145 ; G. Don, I. c. p. 2 (excl. synon.) ; A. DC. 1. c. p. 255. In 

 India: v. s. in herb, meo (15557), Malacca (Gh'iffiths). 



4. L. racemosa, nob. — Symplocos racemosa, Boxb. Flor. Ind. 

 ii. p. 539, vern. Lhodra ; G. Don, Diet. iv. p. 3 ; A. DC. I. c. p. 255. 



5. thearfolia, D. Don, I. c. p. 144 ; G. Don, I. c. p. 2 ; Kurz in 

 Flor. Brit. Burma, ii. p. 144. In Bengalia et Burma: non vidi. 



5. L. spicata, nob. — Symplocos spicata, Boxb. Flor. Ind. m. 

 p. 541 ; A. DC. I. c. p. 254 (excl. synon. et var. ft) ; Wight, lllustr. 



