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dioecious, in axillary cyraes, rarely solitary. Sepals 5, slightly imbricate, 

 subconnate at the base. Petals 5, somewhat contort ed-imbricate. Stam^m 

 many ; anthers dehiscing by slits. Ovary many-celled ; styles as nu- 

 inerous, divergent and elongated after flowering. Fruit baccate, containing 

 rapliides. — Distrib. Himalaya, China and Japan ; species about 8. 



1. Ap callosa, LindL Nat Syst ed, 2, 439; glabrous, leaves broadly 

 elliptic setosely serrulate, sepals toment<>se, fruit sparsely warted. A. Kolo- 

 mitka, Rupr. in Maxim. Amur, 63. Dillen. ord. callosa, Wall. Cat 6634 



Tkmperate Himalaya, from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 4-8000 ft. ; KhaSia Mts., alt. 

 4-5000 ft. — Distrib. Manchuria, Japai], Loochoo Islands. 



A shrubby climber ; stems brown with white verruculae. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3J in., 

 membranous, acuminate ; petioles 1-1 i in. Flowers J in. dlam. in small lax umbellate 

 cymes, white. Pedicels with an obsolete bract below the calyx. Sej^als oblong, obtuse. 

 Styles cluvute. P'ruit | in,, ovoid. 



2. A. strig-osa, Hook f. d: Tlioms, in Jotim. TAnn. Soc. v. 55 ; strigose-' 

 hispid, leaves ovate or oblong callously ciliate or denticulate, sepals nearly 

 smooth. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 6-8000 ft., /. Z>. H. , 



A nhrubby climber with the habit of A. callosa. Leaves 4-5 by 2-3 in., acummaw; 



petioles about 1 in. Peduncles short, 2-4-flowerefl. Flowers f in. diam., shortly pedi- 



celled, white. Sepals elliptic, obtuse. Styles scarcely dilated at the apex. Pruu 



li in., ovoid, mucilaginous, edible. 



8. SATTRAITJA, Willd. 



Trees or shrubs. Branches usually brown with whitish tubercular dots, 

 at first as well as the leaves more or less strigose-pilose or scaly. Lem'es 

 approximate at the ends of the branches, usually serrate, with parallel veins 

 diverging from the midrib. Inflorescence lateral, often from the axils ot 

 fallen leaves, cymose. subpaniculate, rarely few-flowered. Bracts usually 

 small, remote from the calyx. Flowers usually hermaphrodite. SejMils », 

 strongly imbricate. Petals 5, usually connate at the base. Stamens w^rij ', 

 anthers dehiscing by pores. Ovary 3-5-celled ; styles as many, distinct or 

 connate ; ovules many. Fruit baccate, rarely dry and subdehiscent.— 

 ■ Distrib. Tropical and subtropical Asia and America. Species about 60. 



* Flowers in axillary peduncled panicles. Styles 5. 



1. S. napaulensis, DC. Mem. Ternstr. 29 ; panicles 2-4 in. alternately 

 branched with a peduncle about 5 in., bracteoles deciduous elliptic acuie, 

 sepals orbicular glabrous. Wall PI Asiat Rar. il 40, 77, t. 178 ; Cat U^ 

 S. paniculata, Wait in G. Don Gen. Syst. i. 567. Ternstrcemia racemos**, 

 Don Prodr. 225. Zanthoxylum Serra, Turcz.'in Bull. Mosc. 1858, 440. 



Tkmperate Himalaya, from Bhotan and Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft., ^^ Garwhal, a"- 

 2400-5000 ft. ; Khasia Mts., alt. 5000 ft.; Mi^nMi hills, Griffith. ^ 



A moderate sized tree ; youngest branchcH, petioles, niidribs and peduncles cove ^^ 

 with scurfy tonientum. mixed with brown, deciduous, acuminate scales. Leaves i^"^^^ 

 by 3-4 in., narrow oblong-elliptic, rounded at the base, shortly acuminate, 8*^^°^!^ j^, 

 rate, nearly glabrous above, thinly ferruginous-tomentose beneatli ; petioles ^'^i j^ 

 Flowers \ in. diam., pink. Sepals ^ in. Petals at length recurved at the apex. ^^^^ 

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 peduncle 6-8 in , bracteoles small oblong, sepals 

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