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* Flowers nearly 1 in, long. Calyx cujndar with broad lobes. 



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: 1. p. monopbylla, Wight III. i. 109, t. 42 (Micromelum 1) ; spm^ 

 recurved, leaflet oblong or elliptic with an abruptly acute tip, fl^^^^F^^", 

 'equalling or exceeding the pedicels, calyx cupular broadly 4-5-lobea, 



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ovuled. Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v 



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SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 2-5000 ft., X D. H. ; Bhotan, Booth; Khasia Mis., alt. 

 2-4000 ft. ; Tenasserim, Xoi6; Western Peninsula, common ; the Western Forests, 

 from the Concan southward ; Ceylon. i, ,i 



A stout climbing evergreen shrub, with strong green flexnous woody branches au 

 hooked axillary spines sometimes nearly an inch long; tips of younf; shoots and petioes 

 often pubescent. Zea/eis 2^-5 in., usually elliptic and rounded at both ends^/*^'? 

 somewhat obovate, sometimes elliptic-lanceolate and acute or caudate-acummate, con - 

 ceous, bright green ; nerves numerous, spreading; petiole \-% in, Floicers 1 "*•"*** ,** 

 ■white, fragrant. ^ Fetals linear-oblong, very imbricate. Filaments linear, ua^tenej^ 

 glabrous and hairy. Ovary hairy or glabrous ; style glabrous above ; ovules rarey 

 solitary. Berry ovoid or obovoid, size of a nut or larger, yellow, odour heavy, '^e 

 compressed. ' /^ 



2. P. ^randlflora, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl ii. ^2 j. spijij^ 

 Bliort recurved or 0, branches and leaves beneath pubescent, leaflet ^^^^PJ; 

 ovate-oblong abruptly obtusely acuminate, flowers usually solitary ^^^^ 

 than or equalling the slender pubescent or glabrate pedicel, cai> 

 cupTilar, filaments villous, ovary-cells 5 usually 2-ovuled, Limoma gran 

 flora, Wall. Cat. 6361. 



Tenasserim, at Tavoy, WaUich, Heifer ; Sincapore, Xot5. , / TpMi 



. A small tree ( WalUch). Branches slender, terete, sometimes glabrate. i^«/ ^ 

 24-4 in., thinly coriaceous, base rounded. Flowers 1 in. long, as large ^ ,^ J^ 

 -P. monophylla; pedicel sometimes longer, with a pair of basal bracteoles. talj/x 

 rounded, ciliate. Betals linear-oblong. . ^ ;; ' . 



* Flowers about I in. long. Calyx small ^ with acute teeth. 



3. P. Griffithil, Hooh. f. ; spines short, branches and leaves glaDr^J^ 

 or pubescent, leaflet elliptic or oblong abruptly obtusely ^^f^^^^^ 

 flowers 1-3, pedicels very short, calyx acutely 54obed, filaments i o.^ 

 than the linear-oblong anthers, ovary-cells 5 2-ovuled. P. ^^*^I\^ hitros 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Siippl. ii. 42 {not Limonia citrifolia, f <^^^-|--r ?moiii» 

 scandens, Grif. Notul. iv. 495: Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 587, f. 1- *>^^ 

 oblonga. Wall. Cat. 6369; and L. missionis, Wall. Cat. 6358 D. & ^- _^. 



BiRMA, at the Serpentine Mines and Malacca, Criffith; Mukee hills in Assam, J/ _, ' 

 Feou, M'Lelluiid. PPenakg and Sjlhet, Wallich. % Mre^ 



Branches and foliage like that of P. monophylla, but the flowers ^\%Ty^.^^ is * 

 J-i in, long, with a small acutelj-lobed calyx. Fruit unknown.— Griftth s hl ^^ 

 great exaggeration, as his specimens prove. Wallich's 6358 D and F are reie 

 this or the folIo^ving. 





4. P. Citrifolia, ITook /. (not of 

 elliptic ovate acute, flowers 1 



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, , ^ ^, jt..v..cels very short, calyx aci^^^^J." Us * 



lilaments much shorter than the linear elongate anther, ovarj 



2-ovuled. Limonia citrifolia. i?oa;6. #;. /n(i. ii. 379. ;" V ' 



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Chittagong, ^o^rlwrgrA. " . >' - :.., hite ^^^ 



Young shoots polished. Leaflet 4-5 by 2-3 in., quite entire; Fhwersj ^^d] 



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5 m. diam. l^ttaU oblong. Filaments qufle* free. Ovary ovoiU-oo uu^' .-^^ppcir 



style short, thick ; stigma subpeltate. . slrry ovoid, po'in^, of the ^^^^^ "!^^^^ » 



ance of a Lime, even to the little green cells *in the cortex. Seeml-^^ stp* 









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