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Janthophyllum.] xvi. polyqale^. (A. W. Bennett.) 209 



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and insertion. Fruit 1-celled, indeliiscent, l-seeded. Seeds exalbuminous, 

 estrophialate.— DisTRiB. Species about 15. Most abunlaut ia the Archi- 

 pelago and Malacca; a tew species are Continental Indian, and one is 



W. Australian. 



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1. X. flavescens, Roxh, Cor, PL iil t 248 ; leaves coriaceous elliptic- 

 lauceolate not glaucous beneath yellow-green when dry, panicle ditfuse 

 closely pubescent, sepals unequal, ovary and style strigose, fruit glabrous. 

 W. & A. Frodr. 39. X. paniculatum, Aliqad FL Ned hid. SappL i 39J. 

 A. Arnottianum, undulatum, and Koxburghianum, WigM Illl 50; Bed- 



Hort, Malah 



East Bengal; Silhet, and Chittaffonpr. Western Peninsula, Ceylon. — Distrib. 

 Sumatra, Java. 



1 f*^^^^^** *^^^' Leaves 4-7 by 1^-3 in., shining above, less so and veins much reti- 

 culated beneath, with 5-7 principal nerves on oach side, and more or less scattered 

 ^norated glands (which are sometimes absent) at the axils of the nerves or elsewhere. 



toM7er« i-i in X^-^^^ yellow; pedicels very variable, ^-| in. Sepals unequal, subor- 

 »icuiar, finely tomentose. Ovary globose, d.-nsely stri^o.se ; ovules 4, 2 erect and 2 

 Fna^ilous ormore numerous and subhorizontal. Fruit globose, | in. diam., and up- 



ards, Walls very thick, green.— Very variable. I am unable to distini;ui.sh between 

 et t k ^^^'^^'^^"^ ^"d virens, both usually having pitted glands on the leaf beneath, 

 anc^^l Q-V/^ ^^^° pedicels of the latter, the Ceylon specimens of which have 4 ovules, 

 tr..^ ■ "^^ ^"^-^ usually the same, whilst the Pcnmsula ones vary 4-y, and Suraa- 

 traj specimens are 4-ovuled. 



slinH^ ^' /«^"e5ce?i5 proper ; leaves broad, panicle close axillary or terminal, pedicels 

 Vai!'^ ^^12. Chittagong and Western Peninsula (Sumatra, Java). 



Bedl ^ ^"^"^'^lA>'^'"'«, \\ ight 111. 50, t. 23 {sp,)\ leaves narrower, ovules usually 4. 

 T ^f i<7 Sijhat. Anal Gen, i. 3. 



Var. 3. 



pedicels 



or elli 



axilla 



Miis 



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Fl .- 



style strigose. 



')/ Jioxb 



Sumatlr^? Peninsula ; Tenasserim to Malacca and Fenang, WaUich, &c.— Distrib. 



So rv k^^* Borneo. % 



tose^calv j'*^^^*^^^^"^' *^^^ *^® W*^^ leaves, rather larger flowers, more tomen- 



ovalea vV^' - glabrous larger ovary, alone distinguish it in the dried state. The 

 Called. ^ ^~^^' ^^^ ^^^ f^^i*^ is quite glabrous, green, globose and thick- 



^^inbraii 



fflaucum. Wall. 



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numerm r ^^^'Pti« or lanceolate acuminate glaucous beneath, nerves very 

 tose cal? u "" ^^-^ ^^^^' panicle large open lax, branches long tomeu- 

 UaU jp.PHbesceut or tomentose, ovary and style strigose, fruit glabrous. 



'^^^'''\^^^. Ann. Mm. I 193. 



A Small t ^^'"^'SCLA ; Eangoon and Tenasserim in moist places, 

 *bvl u •^' ^'■'^^^^lea terete, very slender, dark red-browii, glabrous. Leave* 

 ;n,!pr 7 » '"•' ""^^^er abruptly acuminate, quite glabrous, finely reticulate; petiole 



"• Panicle 1 ft., with long spreading very sleuder tomentose simple 

 riowers 4-1 in. diam., and slender pedicels pnlescent, pale when dry. 

 •"» ^"fld^f ' ^*"'^fed with dense strigose hairs, ovules 4. Fm:t much smaller than 

 Vol. j^ ^*'^' i-h in- diam., quite smooth and glabrous.— Easily distmguished by its 



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