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76 IV. ANONACE^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Goniothahmui. 



beneath, peduncles supra-axillary, sepals broad ovate acute deciduous, style 

 clavate 2-lobed, carpels oblong or globose rusty-pubescent. Beddome h 

 PL Ltd. Or. t. 64. 



Ceylon; forests between Galle and Eatnapoora, Thwaites, . 



A shrub, 6-8 ft. ; bark black, young branches strigose. Leaves 6-11 by l-2yl»*i 

 membranous, reticulate; petiole J in., deeply grooved, almost winged. Flowers ^^ 

 long, red- or yellow-brown ; pedicels \ in., very slightly supra-axillary, deflexed. Oi;fl' 

 rits densely red-strigose, style large. Carpels ^ in. long, acute, 1-2-seeded ; stalk i'^^- 



16. G. sallcinus, //. f. & T. Fl Ind. 106; leaves narrow-lanceolate 

 acuminate glandular-dotted glabrous above sparsely strigose beneath, P^ 

 duncles shortly supra-axillary, sepals deciduous, style 2-lobed. Thwaita 

 Fmim. 7j Beddome Jc, PL Ind. Or. t. 65. 



Ceylon ; in forests near Adam's Peak, alt. 2-3000 ft. . , 



A shrub, 10-12 ft. ; branches dark, slender, leafy; young parts, petioles, j^icels, 

 and sepals densely brown-strigose. Leaves 3-4| by ^-1 in.; petiole \ in. Flov:e 

 yellow-brown or -red; peduncles J in. Sepals \ in., ovate, acuminate. Outer j)eia(* 

 4-| in., oblong-lanceolate, tomentose ; cone of inner \ in. high. 



17. O. Wi^htll, //. / & T. Fl Ind. 106 ; leaves lanceolate acute at 



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on both surfaces pellucid-dotted, peduncles axillatt, 

 ;r petals ovate acute, style oblong tip dilated, carp€l3 



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both ends glabrous 



sepals persistent, outer 



oblong glabrous. Walt. Cat. 9089 ; Beddome Ic. PL Ind.Or. t. 63. 



Forests of Travancor, Wight, &c. - v ' lit 



Branches glabrous, leafy, buds sub-silky. Leaves 3-5 by f-lj in., thin, bngn* 

 green above, brownish beneath ; petiole ^~\ in. Flowers ^ in. diam., peduncle 

 \~\ in., Bubclavate. Sepals | in., broad-ovate, subacute, puberulous. Outer pct<^ 

 1 in., appressed brown-pubescent; inner ^ in., cone short, brown silky inside. Carp^ 

 § in. I stalk J in. 



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16. MZTREPRORA, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves coriaceous, strongly ribbed, plaited in vernation. P{^^ 

 usually terminal or leaf-opposed, sometimes 1-sexual. Sepals 3, orbiculw 

 or ovate. Petals 6, 2-seriate, valvate ; outer ovate, thin, veined ; m^^^ 

 clawed, vaulted and cohering. Stamens ohlong-cmiesite ; above anther-ceU^ 

 dorsal, remote. Carpels oblons^ ; style oblong or clavate, ventrally furrowWf 

 ovules 4 or more, 2-seriate. Bipe carp)€ls globose or ovoid, stalked or suir 

 sessile.— DiSTRiB. Snecies about 10: tronical Asiatic. 



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lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate, glabrous and shining above except j- 

 hairy midrib, softly tomentose beneath, flowers cymose shortly pediceliea 

 bisexual leaf-opposed, carpels subglobose tomentose long-stalked. 



From Assam, Jenkins; to Chittagono, ff.f, & T. •. 



Branchlets tomentose. Leaves 3-6 by 14-3 in., base rounded, finely reticulate d^ 

 neath ; petiole ^-\ in. Cymes few.flowercd, densely tomentose ; bvacis ba^al, I^rg^ 

 orbicular; pedicels \-^ in.; bracteole submedian. blowers 2 jn. diam. Seppls ^roa ' 

 ovate, acute. Outer petals 1 in., acute; inner broad ovate. Carpels 1 in. diam- ) r 

 icel I-I4 in. 



2. BI, obtusa, Blume Fl. Jav. Anon 'Z^, t. 10 and 14 C; ^^^^^^f 



labrescent, leaves ovate or oblong acute or mucronate glabrate beneat^ 



owers long-pedicelled 2-sexual on terminal and leaf-opposed toniento- 



eeduncles, carpels as in M. tomevtosa but smaller. ^H.f. (h T. Fl /«"■ ^^ 

 varia obtusa, Blume Bijd, ; Wall. Cat 6484. 



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