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spreading successively sliorter lateral branches, buds enclosed in ovate or 

 rotundate tomentose bracts, petals 3 imbricate below, stamens (in $ n) 

 inserted around hairy rudiment of ovary (drupe ellipsoidal subtrigoauus 

 with a bony 1-3-ceIled stone. Blimie), Koeiiig. Aim. Bot. i. 360, t. 7, i. 2; 

 Koxh.Fl Ind, iil 137; BluTue Mus, Bot i. 214; Bijd. 1161; DC, Prodr. 

 ii. 79 ; IF. d: A. Frodr. 175; Miq. FL Ind. Bot vol. i pt. 2, 643; WqU' 

 Gat, 8493. Sapindus travancorensis, WalL Cat 8047. 



J Pexakg, FhillipSj Jack. ' - \ "\ 



Leaves of flowering branches f-l^ ft- tnore or less; upper leaflets 4-6 by li~2| in.; 

 petiolules- 4-1 in. Flowers variable in size, 9 ^ to over J in. in length. Calyx carapa- 

 nulate, broadly 3-lobed. Petals tomentose above. Ovary glabrous, incrassate above. 

 Cotyledons tripartite, contorted {Blumc), — A Malayan and Archipelago plant culu- 

 Tated in India. . ^ .. - r ,^ 



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3. C» zeylanicum, Blume Mm. Bot i 218; extremities tawny-puberu- 

 lous, stipules deciduous, leaflets 5-9 more or less broadly elliptical^ ^^u\ 

 acuminate entire, when pressed flat the margins (of young leaves) infolded 

 beneath glabrous, panicles terminal, of ^ fl. lateral branches successively 

 shorter, buds globose or ovoid at first enveloped in rotundate deciduous 

 tawny-tomento:se bracts, calyx trifid, petals imbricate, stamens of S ^^ 

 serted in disk around glabrous rudiment of ovary. Amyris zeylanica, K^ 

 Obs. iv. 25. Bakamodendrum ? zeylanicum, Ktinthin Ann. Sc. Nal.ser.\ 

 ii. 349 (adnot.) ; DC. Prodr. ii. 76 ; Tliwaites Enum. 79. C balsanufenim, 

 Moon Cat. 68. 



, . .k A.j.if x^"^'^ 



Cevlon, in warm moist districts^ ascending to 1500 ft., Tliwaites^ &c. .^ 

 Leaves of flcwering shoots 1 ft. more or less ; stipules moderately large i 





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inserted on 



the rachis at some .little distance from the base, oLliquely rotundate-sagittate, slioi^; 

 stipitate, early deciduous {Thwaites); leaflets 4-6 by 14-24 in., petlolule ^-4 '°- ^^ 

 male flower ^ in. long. Ovary glabrous, incrassate above as in C commune. H^.y^ 

 ellipsoidal, smooth, obscurely S-gonous, with very thick bony stone.— Very nearly ameu 

 to C. commu7ie, and now that Thwaites finds rotundate-sagittate early c^^^^^lf.^^ 

 pules, there remains little besides the shorter petlolules of the leaflets to separate it ^q^ .^ 



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4. C. secundum, A. W. Benn. ; tawny-pubescent, stipules or eanj 

 deciduous, leaflets 7-9 oblong shortly acuminate entire or faintly ^«» 

 ticulate glabrous above except midrib, shortly pubescent, with lateralii^jv^ 



10-15 pairs proniirieut with conspicuous transverse venation ^^^^ ' 

 icles terminal rustv-tomentosp. bnrls .^nbspssile in bracteate ^es^?*^_. 



panicles terminal rusty-tomentose, buds subsessile in 



stamens 



pedunculate glumerules, calyx broadly 3-lobed, petals imbricate, stam^ 

 confluent with short disk around ovoid-subulate glabrous rudiment ot ova jt 

 fruit trigonous ellipsoidal, with thick bony stone.— Canarium, Wou-'^'^ 

 904C (ay to iSmcapore specimens). :"' ^:j 



SixcAPOHF Wnllkh; Malacca, Griffith, Mainaay. * fnlanceo- 



Leaves 1 ft. more or less on flowering branches, leaflets varying from ovate- to ^ 



late-oblong, upper 3-6 by 1^-24 in, pedolule I to nearlv k in. Panicks ^^orto^ t« 

 long as leaves, wiih succesbively shorter branches ; bVacts ovate-oblong and roi ^^^ 



euclosm^^ tlie buds, /yru^e li-2 in., glabrous.— Nearly allied to C. pu^TfO.^^ 



1 caunot find stipules in any of the numerous specimens. 



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5. C. 



- — purpurasceng, A. W. Benn.: extremities shortly P"Jjf^°to 

 tomentose with rotundate-cordate stipules, leaflets 7-9 ovate-oDi "» 

 oyate-elliptical acuminate glabrous except puberulous midrib aDj»v t^^ 

 phsh-glaucesccnt with minute scattered pubescence and ^'^J^ i^tion 

 Qj prominent lateral nerves with conspicuous transverse retio ^^^ 

 beneath^ panicles terminal and from upper axils, pedicels (ot 6 "■' 







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