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recurved, 2 bracteolate at the base. Sepah 4, suLorbicular, all nearly equal Petals 0. 

 ■rrwi^ (immature) pisiform, tipped by tlie per^iistent style. 



B. Sepals 4. Petals 4 (rarely 3, or in C. Wightianum, or 8 in C. cordalo- 

 oolongum, cuneifolium and Walkeri). 



Racemes shorter than the leaves^ except C, polyanthum. 



8. C. Inophyllum, Linn.; DC. Prod. I 562; quite glabrous, leaves 

 ODlong or obovate-oblong obtuse or emargiuate shining, inner sepals 

 petaloid. ^Chois. Gutiif, hid, 42 ; Planck dh Trian. Mem, Guttif. 254; Roxb. 

 aI;M'^ 606 ; W,& A, Prod. 103 ; Wight III i. 128, Ic, t. 77 ; Wall. Cat. 

 4841 B, C, D, E, F ; Beddmie Flor. Sijlvat. Gen, xxii. G Bintagor, Eoxb. 



*«c. 607. 



Western Peninsula ; from Concan and Orissa "southwards ; Ceylon ; Eastern 

 INSULA from Pegu southwards; Andaman Islands. — Distrib. E. African Islands, 

 A '^ii- P^^-^^^' Australia, Polynesia.— Cultivated throughout India, 

 in? °^l^ ^^o'^'^ed tree ; bark grey, smooth. Leaves 4-8 by 3-4 in., coriaceous, shin- 

 !oo ^Va • ^^^^'^^^^^ 5 veins many, fine ; petiole \-l\ in. Racemes in the upper axils, 

 Dii^ u- ^^' ^^°^' shorter than the leaves, lax, few-flowered. Flowers % in. diam., 

 seoal If' fragrant; pedicels slender, 1-2 in. Sepals^. Petals 4, like the inner 

 niM h ^^^J!^^'^-^ numerous, filaments in 4 bundles. Ovary globose, stipitate ; style 

 yelL ^^^^f ^^"S ^^^ stamens, stigma peltate lobed. Fruit 1 in. dmm., globose, smooth, 

 ^ ow, pulpy .—Rumpij and Blume say that the petals are sometimes 6-8. Wood 

 ^arse-grained but valuable. Seeds aflford lamp oil. 



tr.L^l' ^al"cliianum, Pla7ick dc Trian. Mem. Guttif. 249 ; young parts 



bequal 



WnlTn: ""^ *^^ r^^l^i« or throu 

 ^'^^rCot. 4843, not of Roxburgh. 



xt^^'^^^^^l^^^^'"" ' ^^^"^ Penang to Sincapore, Wallich, &c. 

 'Uii ^"^^^ sub4-gonal, or cvlindric, and buds rustv tomentose. 

 J u acute or subacute at the base, martrins flat or waved ; midrib pu 



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Leaves 6 by 

 puberulous ; veins 



terminlV^^k^^^^ prominent on both su'rlaces ; petiole 1-1 J in. ^aceme^ axillaiy or 

 p'^dunol "^^^ ^^'.^^^"^''^^^' few-flowered, half the length of the leaves, rusty pubescent; 



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Petal 



Flower | in. diam. 



•s 4, oblong. Filaments slender. 



/Sepals ovate-oblong, glabrous or 

 Ovary ovoid, glabrous. Fruit 



fcde^rr ^^ u ^^^^''"7— Gnffith's'Maiacca," 880,'may be this, but ctmsists of a young 



* branch only, the leaves are rusty-pabescent beneath, as are Mamgay's 



obW?^' **>'iffithU, T. Anders. ; quite glabrous, leaves oblong or elliptic- 

 riahrrlo^^ ^f obtuse, veins stout with a strong intramarginal one, racemes 

 Scabrous, sepals subequal 



Chhl ^f ^^suLA ; Malacca, Griffith' . . 



^a ronnH ? ?® ; young shoots 4-gonal, older cylindHc. Leaves 4-6 by U-2 m., tip 

 »xillarv f^ fl ^^"^®' coarsely veined on both surfaces; petiole ^ in. Jiacemes 



?labrou^ p , T^^^*^' ^^'^^^'*^"^' ^^^^ shorter than the leaves. Flowers i m. diam., 



11. c. 



niacrocarpum 



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°^ ellintirrr *'*»"™» "00/c. /.; quite glaorous, leaves iineai-uuiu ig 



^empq ,7«* i^^i^r"^**^ obtusely acuminate narrowed into a slender petiole. 

 Petals n:Ir? ^^^ *^^ l«"gtt of the leaves, pedicels 1-U in., flowers 1 in. diam., 

 E^t much lonier than the sepals. 



^'•aSL ^l"*'?"''* ; Malacca, JUainffcvj (C. Oriffithii, Kew distrib. 174). 

 ^"8- BhinW u • l»'a°chlets sharply 4-angled. Leaves 3-5 by 1^-2 in., very cona- 

 f^l'ary 2-4-^1^^' ^*'"^'>' ^" beneath ; nerves very strong ; petiole 1-1 i m. Eacemez 



-Muary 2-4 1 1 ' ""'"'/ »» oeneatn ; nerves verysiroug, mchu 

 *^-**^'y oblon k °^' 6-1 0-floweied ; rather minutely puberulous. SepaU 4, 2 outer 



»ng, obtuse, very concave: 2 inner twice as long, petaloid, oblong, obtuse. 



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