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A tree. Leaves alternate, ovate, acuminate, glabrous, base cordate, 5-7- 

 n^rved. Panicles large, many-flowered, terjninal and axillary. Cali/x cam- 

 panulate, irregularly 3-5-lobed. Petals 5, spathulate. Stamens many, inserted 

 on a short torus ; anthers didymous, lobes divergent opening lengthwise. 

 mminodesO, Ovary 3-4-lobed, cells, 4-ovuled; style consolidated, stigma 

 Jobed; ovules horizontal. Fruit loculicidally 3-4-valved, each valve 

 2-winged. Seeds pilose albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat leafy, radicle 

 snpenor next the hilum.— Distrib. The following is the only species. 



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9R?' ?■ ■^°»'»on*Ma. -S«c6. HoH. Bmg. 42 ; Fl Ind. \\. 639 ; Cm: PI. in. 

 ^4 ; leaves ovate base cordate palmately 5-7-nerved. Wall. Cat. 1068 ; 



W'. (C- A. Prodr. i. 81 ; Wight III. t. 34 : Thwaites Enum. 32 : Beddome Fl(yr. 



Sylvat. t. 58. . 



/Malabar, Travancore, Pegu, Martabax, Wallich &c.; Ceylon. 

 j^ large tree. Leaves 4-8 by 24-3 in, ; petiole I4 in. and upwards. Stipules ensi- 

 l^\i -^*2^'ce/» 1 in., pubescent. Calyx \ in., downy. P^iafo linear-oblong, twice the 

 ength of the calyx. Filaments half the length of the petals. Omry ovate ; style 

 ttteih ^\}^^^ 3-cleft. Capsule 6-winged, rounded, wings netted, villose. Seeds 1-4 in 



Oaf^nQ^^^^''^' petiole and under surface of leaves pubescent. Berrya mollis, WalL 

 biir ' ^urzinJourn, As. .Sbc. Peng, 1873, ii. 62.— Attran.— The wood is used for 

 ;^it»ing, and is sometimes called Trincomalee wood. 



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 jjpj^^^^/^r shrubs more or less stellate-pubescent. Leaves entire, 1-9- 



dkH^ f >/^^^^^^ axillary, few or more numerous and panicled. Sepals 



raisT+ -^^'^^^ 5, glandular at the base, sometimes 0. Stamens many on a 

 sea torus. Staminodes 0. Ovary 2-4-celled, cells opposite the petals, 

 jv^^^y-o^^led ; style subulate, stigma shortly lobed. Drupe fleshy or 

 betu- \ ^V*^*"®' ^^ 2-4-lobed ; stones 1-4, 1-2-seeded, with false partitions 

 flat!ln ^^^^^- ^'^^* ascending, albumen fleshy or rarely ; cotyledons 

 thf.\Vf^^^- A genus of about 60 species, for the most part confined to 

 eiiHp • regions of the old world. Some of the Indian species are 

 ol S^^' -^^^ common to tropical Africa, &c. The synonymy of some 

 re Pv7 ^^^^\^^ is extremely involved, and the genus requires a complete 

 examination. The structure of the drupes and seeds in particular requires 

 incon^piJt^^^^gation than is possible in herbarium specimens which are often 



or rr? ; ^' ®rewla proper. Flowers axillary or terminal Fruit fleshy 

 ■' cru.-,taceous usually lobed. 



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leaves scabrous 



niuate glandular-serrate, cymes extra-axillary and termi- 



nical sulcate, drupes turbinate 4-lobed bristly. . \] igM Ic. 



G- oriPnV r ^•J'^odr. i. 76 ; Thwaites Enum. 31 ; Dah.i: Gihs-Bmih. M 2b. 



C, D 1^^'' ^«^^ ^'y^' i' 34. exW.dhA. I.e. G pilosa W. Cat.n\2 



Cif i ^d^, ' "^i ^ Lam- G. bracteata, Miq. PI Hohm. G. obtusa, WaU. 



^E«xS?''^-^- carpinifolia, WaU. Ca^. m^-k^ - ^ - . , ,.. 



^^^'^RS Peninsula. Bengal and CErLOS.— Distbib. Java, East tropical Africa. 





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