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Xylosim] XIV. BixiNEJE. (Ilook. f. & Thorns.) 195 



pabescent, ^ flowers in small branched slender pubescent few-flowered 

 panicles, sepals minute orbicular ciliata 



Bababooden hills in Maisor, Laio^ Stocks, 

 jjr^?^Se thorny tree, twigs petioles and inflorescence finely downy. Leaves 2-5 by 



^k in-, hardly coriaceous, base acute, narves 4 or 5 on each side, the 2 lower running 

 nearly throughout the blade ; petiole i-J in. S Panicles 4-1 in,, very slender, sparingly 

 oranched; bracts linear-oblong. I'rui't very small, about ^ in. diam. with 4 placentas; 

 srjie very distinct, stigma capitate 44obed. 





6. ABERZA, Hochst 



or_slirubs,_ often spinous. Leaves entire or toothed, exstipulate. 

 <>ttf^5 axillary, dioecious ; ^ subraceraose, fascicled, or umbellate, 9 soli- 

 m or tascicled. Sepals 5-8, tomentose, subvalrate. Petals 0. Disk of ? 

 feanclular. Stamens numerous; anthers short. Ovari/ 1-celled: styles 2-5, 

 nVt l' ^^^^^^^"S, stigma notched or truncate ; ovules 2-6 on each of 2-7 pa- 

 netai placentas. Berr^/ globose, tomentose. Seeds pubescent or tomeu- 



w\r"i'\^.^^^^*^' imbedded iu pulp : cotyledons flat, broad. -Species 5, all 

 ^ut the following African. 



ellinf^' ^^fd'i^rtf Clos in Ann. Sc. Nat, Ser. 4, viii. 236 • leaves ovate 

 /^pnc or elhptic-lanceolate acuminate entire or toothed pubescent above 

 mentose beneath. Roumea liebecarpa, Gard. in Calc. Journ. Nat Hist. 

 ^^>ThwaitesEnum.lS. .^ 



At!f^\f ^^^"'^^^^'^lle, Maturatte, &c., Gardner, &c. 

 miariK 1 ^*' ' branches pale, twigs reddish, tomentose. Leaves 2-5 by 4-2 in.; 



ii/?.^^^V^ery oblique veins red, base acute or rounded; petiole i-^ in. Fhwcrs 

 equalKl^"^li cJ umbelledon very short peduncles ; 9 solitary or few together. Filaments 

 ffam^^l!'^"^'^*^^''^^®' ^^"^*^ sepals. Styl.es hoArj ] stigmas fimbriate. Fruit 1 in. 

 AW-ak ^ajne of Aeieca?;»a was not adopted by Clos, because all the species of 



.^^^ tave pubescent fruit. 







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7. GYIf OCARDIA, R Br. 



cal fjf/^^i* j^ glabrous tree. Leaves quite entire. Flowers axillary or trun- 

 gufariv D ' ,^i«cious. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-tootlied or bursting irre- 

 toanv. \^^^ ^' ""'ith a ciliate scale opposite each. Fl. ^ : Stamem 

 villoi' n^^® basifixed, linear. Ovary a Fh. 'i : Skwiinodrs 10-15, 

 manv^n ^^"''^. globose, 1-celled: styles 5, stigmas large cordate; ovules 

 Seeds' ^h ?^"?tal placentas. Berri/ subglubose, rind thick, hard, rough. 



' flat sni.^^i^' I'nmersed in pulp, testa thick ; albumen oily ; cotyledons 



.'' subremfurm, radicle ovoid. 



^^aveTohf* ***' ^- ^'■- «^^ ^«^^- ^^^- ^^- 95, t. 299 ; quite glabrous, 

 fi Jar i>^° ^^ ^'"^ar oblong abruptly acuminate shining above. £(i'i'i^t 

 ^oti^AnA' ^^^- Ci.aulmoogra odorata, Jioxb. Fl. Ind. iil 835. Chil- 

 * ^ * aodecandra, namilt. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 500. 



■^'»*«SEKnt''^"' *"*^ ^^® Khasia hills eastwards to Chittaoono, Kangoox, and 



V U-Ti^ slender, flexuous. Leaves bifarious, largest 6-10 by 3-4 in., smallest 4-6 

 ^'"'tel vlii *^°."^*'^*^ous, strongly reticulate beneath ; petiole ^-1 in. Flowers sweet 

 M axils v^^' .'" ^^'■>' large fascicles on the trunk, solitary or few together in the 

 r'^'ta ba Jr^ ^'?"^^1^ in size, i-2 in. diam., the females largest; peduncles 1-3 in. ; 

 ^1 1 \nhj^^^^^^' Calyx coriaceous. /i7a«e;i/« woolly. Fruit 3-5 in. diam. 







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