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Bocagea.] iv. anonaceje. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 93 



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|^aries3-5, stigma entire, Guatteria laurifolia, Graham Cat. Bombay PL 4. 

 feagersea lauriiia, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 207 ; Bombay Flor. 2 ; 

 ^./. (fe Z ^/f. Ind. 93, S. Dalzellii, Beddmne Ic. PI Ind. Or. t. 42. 



Forests of the Concan, Graham; and Travancor, Beddome. 

 . A^middle-sized tree. Leaves 5-9 by 1^-2 in., thick, coriaceous, base acute or 

 rounded ; petiole \ m, Plowers crowded, white ; pedicels \-^ in. ; bracteoles sevt;ral, 

 scaljj basal. Sepah orbicular. Petals 4 in., broad-ovate. Outer stamens sometimes 

 Without anthers. Bipe carpels 1 in. diam., globose, glabrous, subsessUe. 



4, B. corlacea, H, /. & T, ; leaves ovate-lanceolate acute or subacute, 

 flowers 1-3 2-sexual, stamens 9, ovaries 1-2. Oropliea coriacea, Thwaites 

 t^^w.%'^BeddomeIc.PlInd.Or.t.l\. ' • 



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V 9^^^^/ Central Province, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites. 



A middle-sized tree. Leaves 3-6 by i|-24 in., thick, coriaceous, tase rounded, dark 

 green above, pale beneath ; petiole x^— J in. Flowers ^ in. diam., terminal in cauline 

 pedicels \ in., bracteoles basal, strigose. Sepals minute, deltoid, ciliate. Petals orbi- ' 

 ^r, outer purple outside, orange-brown inside; inner connivent, dark purple. 

 ^•fvanes 2-ovuIed. Carpels \ in. diam., obliquely subglobose. glabrous, subsessile.— We ^ 

 remove this and the following from Orophea to Bocagea on account of the habit ancl 

 apparently imbricate outer petals ; the inner petals have no claws, 



5. 



terminal 



stamens 6 in 2 series, ovaries 3. Orophea 1 obliqua, H.f. 



Ceylon, in the Gall 



Beddome 



A middle-sued tree. Leaves 4-5 by 1| -2 in., coriaceous, base oblique, pale beneath; 

 J^™J, TT ,in, Floit^ers minute, purple. Sepals ciliate. Petals orbicular, outer 

 preading, inner connivent (imbricate or subvalvate. Thw.) Ovaries 2-ovuled, stigmas 

 depressea. Carpels i in. diam., red-brown. 



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A tree. Flme 



Sepali 



connate ovate, acute persistent. Petals 6 ; outer ovate, valvate ; inner 

 smaller, oblong, imbricate. Stamens about 12, filaments half the length of 

 ine extrorse anther-cells ; connective obliquely truncate. Ovary 1 ; stigma 

 »essiie peltate, crenate : ovules few. Eipe carpel globose. Steds several, 

 2-seriate. • -^ / 





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fflaK aervosa, B. f, d: T. : leaves elliptic or linear-oblong acuminate 

 «i^rous or puberulous on the nerves beneath. 



*bnl^ ' ^ootly, young rusty-pubescent. Leaves 4-8 by 2-3 in., base rounded thin, 

 i in W°^'- °P^1"** ; 'serves many oblique strong; petiole \ in., pubescent. J^ lowers 

 orb;;, ?5' 1° *««"cle8 of 8-10 ; peduncles i-i in., slender, rusty-pubescent ; bracts small 

 'cmar, basal, imbricate. Stpah ^\ in., ferruginous. Fetala asbyi)ubescent, sub- 

 rustv f«"^°^^ one-third smaller. Carpels 1 in. diam., on stout woody peduncles, densely 

 outer n??^^^ ; walls very tbick.— Differs from Bocagea in the valvate not orbicular 

 petals, smaller inner. soUtarv camfil and nubesctnt branches. 







inner, solitary carpel, and pubescent branches 



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briJ. r ^' ^««^« shining. ^ ^Tou^w^ smaU/ in axiUary fescicles.^- .S^P^ 3, 

 woad-ovate, acute. Petals 6, in 2 series : outer lanceolate, flat, spreading, 



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