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 very sliortly pedicelled, pale, glabrous, globose. Petals broadly ovate. Fruit 4 in- diam., 

 globose, yellow.— Beddome considers this to be probably a variety of C. Willfienoviij 

 but the inflorescence is totally difierent. 



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Inflorescence axillary^ panicled or racemose, 



8. C. WUldenovix, W. & A. Prodr. m ; glabrous or pubescent or 

 tomentose, leaves 5-13-foliolate, leaflets 1-2 in. obliquely ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate crenulate, flowers in compound slender racemes usually 4-nierous, 



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Madr, Joirni. 1861 ; Tram. Linn. Soc. xxv. 211. Icica dentata, DC -r roar, 

 ii. 78. Amyris dentata, Willd. Sp. PL iL 337. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 1-2000 ft. 

 3000 ft. in Wynaad. Ceylon, in the hot drier parts. 



Western Peninsula, common 



DiSTRiB. Moluccas. 



ascending to 



K»\j\j\j It. Ill Tvyuaau. v^iixijuix, in iiie not uner parts. — j^ioiiti». j-uv^iw^v."^.^ 



A large shrub {Boxhirgh), glabrous or with the young parts and sometimes ^ne p - 

 tioles and inflorescence pubescent ; branchlets slender. Leaves 6-16 in. ; petiole slej^fl j ^ 

 terete; leaflets petioled, oblique, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, acute^^^ - 

 obtusely caudate acuminate, crenulate, membranous. Bacemes slender, axillary, 6 ^^ 

 in. long, branches or pedicels divaricating. Floicers fragrant, rather remote, 3 • 

 diam., whitish ; buds globose. Petals oblong, concave, glandular. Fruit globose, ny 

 tie size of a pea to a cherry, whitish -gi-een, pellucid. , jj^^ 



, Var. 1. pubeacens; more or less pubescent or tomentose or woolly on ^^^: /rr^^ 

 Irracts petioles and inflorescence or throughout. C. pubescens, TF. & A.Prodr.J^ >/ 



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Cat. 8510. — Pegu, Madras, Ceylon. . ^ ^ . .. ^ >, ,^^ 



'Var. 2. nana; branches petioles and racemes quite glabrous with scatteredpus ^ 

 glands, leaflets smaller membranous rericulate. C. nana, W. & AAx. , ^ 

 8507. Amyris nana, Eoxh. FL Ind. ii. 249. Madras (Moluccas, Boxhurgh).j^y^^ 



9. C. suflFrutlcosa, W. d- A. Prodr. 96 ; softly tomentose, hj^ 

 11-17-foliolate, leatiets 3-5 in. obliquely oblong or ovate-oblong, no\^^^ 

 in compound slender racemes 4-merous, ovary stipitate ovoid or sud-.P ^.^^ 

 rical or grooved, style slender, ovules superposed in each cell. i^» • - 

 Jouryu Linn. Soc. v. Snppl. ii. 33 ; Wall. Cat. 8513, 8514. Amyns 



fruticosa, Eoa^. Fl. hid. ii. 9r.n. 





Chittagono, Boxhiirgh ; Khasia Mts., De Silva. 



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 about as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 1 ft. ; petiole straight, slender, tereu;, 5^^^ 

 dular towards the base ; leaflets shortly petioled, obtuse acute or ^^^'""'f .Lpder, 

 equally tomentose on both surfaces, quite entire. Bacemes 2-5 in., c<^^F"^^7 p^ 

 glandular, -f/owera J in. diam., greenish-white, pedicels slender ; buds globose. ^^^ 



glabrous, concave. Fruit (according to Eoxburgh) 1 in. long, fusiform or o^o , ^^ 

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ing, orange-vellow, glandular. Seed solitary, gi-een. ^ 



cens of Willdenow by the much larger size of leaves leaflets and fruit 



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 inserted round a fleshy disk, filaments free subequal dilated ^^ ,^^,jjuon 

 anther linear. Ovary ovoid, 3-celled, narrowed into ti' slender u jj 



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 ellei 1-3-seeded. ^ Heeds oblong, luinien* 



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