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panicles Cah/x minute, 4-partite, imbricate. Petals 4, minute, linear, 

 luioncate Dv>k 4-Iobed. Stamens 4, inserted beneath the disk ; filaments 

 m&ea. Ovary deeply 4-lobed, or consisting of 4 entirely free carpels. 

 iJrnjpes 4 entirely free, ovoid, somewhat fleshy. 

 minous.-DisTEiB. Africa, Tropical Asia, Australia ; 



Seed solitary, exalbu- 

 species 6. 



mim ^"°»atrana, Boxh. Fl Ind. \. 449; leaves very large, leaflets 

 T)n>,r.Tfl^ ^^''^ coarsely toothed villous beneath, panicles very long com- 

 WnU n?^^^^ usually hermaphrodite, filaments short. DC. Frodr. ii. 88 ; 

 '^a«. Cat. 8482 ; Blume Bijd. 1 1 67. - ' - - - • 



SiS^'' r?A7^*'' Peninsula; in Tenasserim and the Andaman Islds., Hdfer; 

 Anstralk '. "'^- ~ ^istrib. Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Philippines, South China, 



long co^ ^/ M^*^^ ^^^ somewhat foetid properties. Leaves often more than a foot 

 *l»e 1otJ^^£^1 ^^ ^ dense yellow pubescence, especially on the veins, &c. beneath, 

 How-n h sometimes compound. Panicles axillary; rachis greatly elongated, 



^l\ix^^ ^^^^'^^ ' ^^^ ^^^^te flowers collected into small rather distant stalked cymes. 

 liot e»p ^T- ^^^^^^^- Peidls larger than the calyx-segmentp, linear-spatliulate. Stamens 

 ^ceeamg petals in length. Drupes ^-^ in., black, glabrous, reticulated, 



Bsual] ' ^/*^^*^» WalL Cat 8483 ; leaflets'numerous lanceolate-acute entire 

 Soc pL^^ n^?^^^^*'' racemes compound, drupes ovoid. ' 



Su.HK!'T*^n. P^sTERx* feiMALATA ; Sikkimand' Bhotan, alt. 3-6000 ii,,' Griffith, and 



Bcarry JV '^'^' Leaflets larger than in J?, sumatrana, 3 by 2 in., from pubescent to 

 *7^e8 ^/.j ^*^^^- ' Panicles axillary; rachis pubescent or nearly glabrous; secondary 

 '^^ertli ' "a"^"^*^^^^^'^*^* -Pe^^/Zs linear, longer than the stamens. 7>rui>es much 

 . ' - > *^ '^ ; ^'^^o.trana^ \-^ in., brown, glabrous, scarcely reticulated. 



ir?^r2 m Joum, As, 





entire 1 a ' ^^*^^ bitter bark. Leaves very large, unequally pinnate, with 

 panicle^ />^' ^^^^^^ polygamous; in much-branched subterminal hairy 

 Di^f^ e '^^' minute, 5-toothed, valvate. -Petals 5, induplicate-valvate. 

 latter- i|i ^'^^^^ in male and hermaphrodite flowers 5, smaller in the 

 styles 5 "^^^ts attached to the base of the petals. Ovary 5-partite, free ; 



^^^^ exalK^'^^*^'^'^*^^^^^^*'^^*^^^*- />ri{/>e5 3-5,stipitate. ^et/ solitary, pendu- 

 , > .^^^^^^unous.— DiSTKiB. Malacca, Archipelago, Philippines. Species 2. 



acnte * ^®^6-ifolla, '^«'^'^, ^oxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 307 ; leaflets elliptic 

 Weoinf *^!^^ glandular-liairy, calyx-segments glandular, petals ovate- 

 flajui f' ^i-^^ients appendiculate. DC Prodr. il ^Q; Wall Cat. 8522; 

 E. tav^",,:'* ^?^^- Lond. Joum. Bot. v. 584. E. merguensis, Planch. I.e. 



^7^^, Wall. Cat. 8523. 



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^CAf^fiE^I^ ^«^2>A, and the Andaman Islds., Selfer, to Malacca, Pekang, and 



* tree wffK i.-^'^^^^* Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines. ; >^ ' ,^^^ - '^ '' 

 «^ceous / ft ^*^^*^^ properties. Leaves a foot ot more long, with a large number of 

 ft'^^uchh u"^' opposite) leaflets, much paler beneath. .iPaniiks large, spreading, 

 ^^k 4 ".. ^^^?^ed; rachis and pedicels covered with a rufous glandular pubescence. 

 V^^^^ and ^vu ^^ '^"S ^^ calyx-segments, J by ^ in. broad, very finely pubescent 

 T^^te ciLT 1 -^^' L^'ilaments broad, half as long as the petals, glabrous, with a 

 \^^ UBablp f T^PP^^^^S^ ^^ ^'^® h^^^MDrupes hard, ovoid, \ in. long, \ m. broad.— 

 I ^^riuni K ^^«tinguidi the specimen of Planchaa's -£^. mer^/wen^ in the flookerian 

 *«e Upg *^J the alleged character of the filaments; otherwise it pfecisely resembles 





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