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Trees, mostly glabrous. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets quite entire, opposite 

 subopposite or alternate, more or less acuminate at the apex and oblique at 

 tlie base, coriaceous. Flowers paniculate, hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-5-iid, 

 dentate or partite or subentire, imbricated, caducous. Petals A^b^ oblong, 

 spreading, valvate or slightly imbricated. Staminal tithe cylindrical, den- 

 tate or crenulate at mouth ; anthers short, 6, 8 or 10, included or halt 

 exserted. Dish tubular, equalling or twice the length of the ovary, cre- 

 nulate or entire at the mouth. Ovary usually 3-4-celled ; style about 

 equalling the staminal tube j ovules usually 2 in each cell. Capsw/e globose 

 or pear-shaped, coriaceous (ofteii thickly so), 1-4-celled, loculicidal; seeds 

 arillate or exarillate, exalbuminous. — Distrib. Species about 40, many 

 in the Malay Archipelago, and a few in Australia and New Zealand, i ^ '^ 



The Indian species appear to be endemic. Many species emit an alliaceous odour. 



Sect. 1 Calyx cup-shaped, subentire, about half the length of the 

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1. D. blnectarlferum, Rook. f. ex Bedd. in Trav^. Linn. Sod. xxj.. 

 212; pallid, leaflets 5-9 alternate elliptic acuminate glabrous, F'l'*;^^ 

 nearly glabrous mucli shorter than the leaves, pedicels shorter than xn 

 4-nierous obsoletely tomentose flowers, calyx thick urceolate-cupsJiape 

 subentire, petals valvate except the apex, disk glabrous inside scarcely 

 so outside twice as long as the 4-celled shortly hairy ovary, style very 

 shortly hairy, fruit obovoid somewhat pyriform or subglobose ^^^3, 

 labrate or puberulous. Guarea binectanf era, Roxh. Hort. Beng. i» , -^ • 

 nd. ii. 240 ; Wall. Cat. 1260 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 31. D. macrocarpum, 

 "hwaites Enum. 60: Beddome Fl. Svlv. t. 150: Anal. Gen. hy.', .^^J, 



Blume. 

 Wall 



i. 120, not ofNimmo. ? G. Amaris, Hamilt 



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Khasia Mts. and Assam; Western Penihsula from the Concan sbuthwar , 



Ceylon (? Sikkim Himalaya and S. Andaman Islds.)- ' . nptlolnles 



A tree 30 ft. high or more. Leaves 9-18 in.; leaflets 24-7 hy 1-3 in. ;F'', 



J-iin. Flowers % in., pale green; calyx nearly half the length of the flower , ] . j^ 

 tube somewhat mealy on both sides. Fruit 1\ in. long, reddish, 4-cellea.^ _^^ ^ 

 Seeds polished, dark purple.— The form with smaller and narrower leaves is ^" y^ 

 of Dr. Thwaites. ' Amoora ficiformis, Wiglit lllustr. Ind. Bat, i. 147, closely reseu* 

 the Ceylon specimens, and may be synonymous with this species. 



Sect. II. Calyx 4-5-fid or -partite or -sepalous, mostly short. 



Flowers panicled. 

 t Ovary glabrous. 

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'z. a. orevipeSf Hiem ; leaflets 5-11 opposite or auemaK^ ^--r ^^^ 

 ovate-oblong acuminate glabrous, ultimate pedicels shorter «j : ^^ 

 glabrous flowers, calyx small cup-shaped irregularly 4-to(^thed, P^^^^g^j - 

 disk exceeding the 3-4-celled glabrous ovary, fruit pear-shaped 4-vd, , 



A tree; Leaves 8-24 in. ; leaflets 3-9 by 1-2 in., sometimes o'^scure y f j^ 



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