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cell, collateral or superposed. Fruit of 4 free spreading coriaceous caipels 

 dehiscing on the inner face; endocarp more or less separating, o^-^u^ 

 oblong, funicle sometimes elongate, testa black brittle shining, albumen 

 fleshy and oily ; embryo with large oblong cotyledons and a short aupenor 

 radicle. — Distkib. CLiefly Polynesian ; species about 15. \ 



BX. indlca, Wight Ic. t 1051; glabrous, leaves 1-foliolate leaflets 

 tic or obovate acute, flowers 3-5 terminating long slender decurvea 



elliptic or 





peduncles. Bedd. Flor. iSylvaL Anal. Gen. xl. t. vi. f. 1. 



NiLGHiRi Mts., in woods near the Avalanches, Wight, Gardner. , - * fe- 



A shrub or small tree ; branches slender. LeaveS glabrous ; petiole J-U id-, Y\' 

 leaflet 3-4 in., glabrous, shining, narrowed towards the base, nerves very sienaer. 

 Peduncles 2-4 in., slender, often 3-flowered. Flowers 4 in. diani., on short stout puoe-y 

 cent pedicels. Calyx divided nearly to the base into 4 orbicular coriaceous obtuse iooe . 

 Petals valvate, ovate, acute, glabrous, thick, longer than the stamens. Dtsl^ P'^®°„,.: 

 Ovary-lobes villous, free at the apex ; styles free below ; ovules e 

 carjjels 4, i in. long, turgid, apiculate, 1-seeded, veined. Seed ohh 



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 short stout, leaflet obovate-lanceolat 

 petiole few-flowered, petals valvate. 



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Tenasserim or Andaman IsLDs., J5"e(/er. ' -. , ■ -L^n-aried 



Dioecious ? Branches rather stout, bark wrinkled ; whole plant yellowish V^^V j' 



'Petiole i-1 in., not acutely margined; leaflet 4-8 in., menibranous, '^^^'^^^^^Xm^'- 



very slender. Cymes 1-3 in., panicled, suberect ; peduncle rather stout, q">*^ S''^ ^^^^ 



hranrhes i— I in f^«r 7?J^.„^^» / t\ u i'.w.«:«i^.i . T^ftr^^^.f.Ifi short, stout. Itlui^ 



branches J-J in., few. Flowers [6) small, fascicled ; pedicels short, stout 

 vate, longer than the stamens. Disk 8-lobed. Fruit not seen 





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Shrubs or trees, often armed .vitli stout prickles. Leaves ate-^, 

 3-foholate or unequally pinnate ; leaflets opposite or alternate, ^^^^ 

 crenate, often oblique, punctate. Flowers small, in axillary, Qf ;J' ^^^ 

 peduncled broad or narrow cymes, white, pink, or greenish, otten ^"S- ^g. 

 Ca(i/x 3-8-fid, rarely 0. Petais 3-5, rarely 0, imbricate or Weed I" 



valvate. Disk small or obscure. 



scales in the ?. Ovary rudimentary in the ^, in the ? ot ^ o .^^^. 

 1-celled carpels ; styles sublateral, free or coimate above, stig"^^ "-'^i^s^or 

 ovules 2 in each cell, usually collateral. Fruit of 1-5 globose conace_ ^^ 

 fleshy 1-seeded carpels dehiscing ventrally, endocarp horny, sepd ^^ 



not. Seed oblong and 



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carpel, hilum broad, testa bony or crustaceous blue or o*''^^ .' ^^jde 

 albumen fleshy; embryo axile, straight or curved, cotyledons n, ■ 



very short.— Distkib. About 80 species, all tropical and suotropx 



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* Leaves Z-foUolate^ petinle not tmiged^Jlowerspoli/j^eicUons. .^^^ 



1. Z. ovallfolium, Ft ///. I 169; quite glabrous, ^^^^^l^^lte tip 

 short straight prickles, leaflets elliptic-oblong or obo^ate^y^ ^y^l 

 obtuse emarginate. Bedd. Flor. Sdvat. Aucd. Gen. xlu. t. vi.^i- r^ jj^. 

 Cat. 7469. Z. lucidum 



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Ilohenack. 466. Limonia leptostacbya, /acJ according tp^ "ff% Madras 

 Western Pekinsdla, in Canara, Kurg and the Nilghin Mts., anu u 

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