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Trees witli stellate pubescence. Leaves palminerved, usually lobed. 

 Flowers panicled, polygamous. Bracteoles 4-6, leafy, connate at the base, 

 accrescent and spreading in fruit. Sepals 5, connate below the nuadle. 

 Petals 5, obcordate, oblique, longer than the calyx, adnate to the starmnal 

 tube. Staminal-tube dii\ided about the middle into 5 divisions each bearing 

 3 reniform anthers which are imperfect in the female flower. Ovary 

 2-3-celIed; style 3-cleft, stigmas 3 peltate, imperfect in the male flower; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, ascending. Capsule subglooose, muticoiis, locunciaaliy 

 3-valved, Seeds reniform, furrowed.— Disteib. Exclusively Indian, ., 



&. calycina, Eoxb. Hart Beng. 50; Cor. PI iii. H, t. ^^j.^^ 



leaves downy beneath, bractec^les oblong downy. .. -^ 



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 Ind. m. 188 



t. 879-80 ; W. <t A. Prodr. i. 70 ; Dalz. d^ Gibs. Bo^iib. i^/. 24 ; _^ 

 Sulvat t. 3; Wall Cat. 1176. K. Roxburghiana, Wight Ic, n\.}^f^i 

 Wall. Cat. 1177. K. fraterna, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 216; Fl. hid. m. i«y> 

 W. dc A. I.e. K. pulverulenta, Ham, in Wall. Cat. 1176. 



throughout th« 



Tropical regions of the Himalaya, from Kumaon eastward, and 

 Western Ghats. Biema, Wallich. 



less lobed, 



A tree. Leaves 4-5 by 3 in., rounded, cordate, palmately 7-nervcd, more or less lu^^ 

 midlobe longest, glabrous above or with thinly scattered hairs, closely f'^*^*;" i^"^i^, * 



petiole 1-2 in. Inflorescence much branched, many-flowered, 

 spathulate, nearly as ling as the calyx, ultimately spreading. 

 Sejxds ovate, acute. 



Bracteoles 4-6, obloi>^- 

 Fhihers white or pinK. 

 StaminaUnhe shorter^ 



bepaU ovate, acute. Petals exceeding the sepals, obcordate. ^^^^"^?^^ ^ .\p" rta 

 than the petals, branches opposite to the sepals.— The size and proportion ol ine p ^ 



vary according to the sex of the flower. 



2, K. ^labrescens, Mast.; 

 bracteoles oblanceolate glabrous. 



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Bhotan, Assam, and Malacca, Griffith (all the localities). . , merveJ, 



A tree, herbaceous portions sparingly hairy. Leaves 4 by Z\ ^^j*' P^. ipg 4-5 

 obscurely lobed, base wedge-shaped; petiole 2 J in. Panicle terminal; ^'l*^ ^^ g^^ll 

 spreading, accrescent, ultimately 1 in. Sepals lanceolate. Capsule the size *^^ . .^j^g 

 pea, shorter than the incurved sepals, globose, pubescent— I have only seen i 

 specimens. , ^ , 



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15.* ADANSONIA, Linn. 



Tree with a short thfck trunk and very widely spreading '^^^^^^^ 

 forming a mushroom-sliaped head. Leaver pubescent beneath ^'^^^ i(,„g. 

 glabrous digitate, deciduous. Flmvers solitary, axillary, pendulous, ,_ 



l>eduncled. 



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exceeding the sepals, adnate below to the stamens, -f^'^w^na^-^wof Jj^ 

 drical, dividing above into numerous filaments : anthers reniform, i^^j^ 

 Ovary 5-10-celled ; style long, exserted, divided into as manv sug^ j„ 

 branches as there are cells to the ovary, stigmas radiating ; ovuies" ^^^ 

 each cell Fruii oblong, woody, indehiscent ; with mealy pu'F ^^ 



inaiilli. Sfifi/ie rnnif/»Y.r« ♦^«4.» 4-1,." 1_ -lU *!,;« iSTTlhrVO CUr>cu, 



Seeds^ reniform, testa thick, albumen thin, T^^^i^^b ^ i^^^^^^ 



ledons contortuplicate.— Two species are known, one the ^- 

 of Africa, not truly wild in India, and the other Australian 





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Prodr, i. 61 : 



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DC. Prodr. I 478 ; Cav. Diss. v. 298, t 15 'K,*;\g26; 

 Eoxb. FL Ind. iii. 164 : ThwaUes Enum. 28 ; WaU. t^«f- 



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