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cated, Staminal tube globose, crenulated ; anthers 10, obtuse, usually m 

 two rows, the shorter ones included, the lunger partly exserted sometimes 

 apiculate. Bisk obsolete. Ovary globose, 3-5-celled ; cells 1-2-ovulea ; 

 style very short, thick, stigma truncate 3-5-lobed. Fruit baccate, edible, 

 1-5-celled ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds oblong, with ventral hile, invested ma 

 pulpy aril, exalbuminous. — Distbib. A genus of scarcely more than tiie^ 

 following 4 species, confined to India and the Malay Archipelago. , .- v- 



The juicy envelope of tbe seeds is the part eaten, and the taste is cooling and 

 pleasant. 



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* 1. 1. anamalayanum, Beddorm in Tram. Linn. Soc. xxv. 212 ; ic 



Fl. hid. Or. 104 ; Fl Sylvat I. 131 ; leaflets alternate eUiptic obtusely 

 acuminate base cuneate glabrous except occasionally hairy glands in axi =» 

 of veins beneath, sepals shortly ciliate, ovary strigose 3-lobed and -ceueu) 

 cells 2-ovuled, fruit oblong, radicle pubescent. " -^ 



Westkbn Peninsula; common in the moist woods on the Anamallaj hills, and m 



the Wynaad, alt. about 2000 ft., Beddome. 



" A good-sized tree. Leaves 6-9 in. ; leaflets 3-44 by U-2 in. ; petiolule \-% m. 5er- 

 maphrodite Jlowers %q^^\\q, about J in. diam. Fruit as big as a large grape. -. ■ 



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pedicellatum, Hiem 



elliptic aj:uminate glabrous base oblique obtuse or cuneate, ? ^^^^^,^ 

 short simple" or branched at the base, flowers pedicelled, ovary sliorujf 

 tomentose 4-celled. .:, ^.-,.. 



Shoots pale brown, obsoletelj lepidote. Leaves 9-12 in.; leaflets 3-6 by H:^||\- 

 petiolule ^-\ in. Ions.' ? Inflorescence 1-2 in. long; pedicels J-i invlo^S-.^^ ^ 

 frvit subglobose, flebhy, shortly tomentose, k in. diam. ; , .' !>. 



3. Xi. cinereum, Hiem; leaflets 3-6 opposite elliptic obtusely acu- 

 minate base cuneate coriaceous glabrous shining except the vems, sep 

 short, ovary hairy 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled. ' :; J 



Mai^vcca, Maingay, . *^ f ^f3 



Branches cinereous, tawny-pubescent at the extremities. Leaves 3-5 m-i .^^ ^^^ 

 pllid, 2-34 by l-U in. ; petiolule i-|in. Hermaphrodite spikes nearly eiiuaUiog 

 leaves, icm^er aniAers apiculate, \ 



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dozaesticum 



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acuminate more or less narrowed at the base reticulate coriaceous ^^^ 

 nearly or quite glabrous, petiolules tumid at the base, *i®^°^*£J.^ate 

 spikes springing from the trunk and naked branches solitary or tasciv. ^^^^ 

 pubescent shorter than the leaves, ovary tomentose 5-celled, ceua 



ovuled. Uorrea de Sprra in Anvt Mtts 



uieu. Kjorrea ae ^erra m Ann. iMns. x. 157, t. 7, i. i- , . . ,. * „d per- 



Malacca, Griffith (Malvgay, cult.).— Distkib. Widely cultivated i" j.^^^^^j gianco. 



haps spontaneous in the Malay Arclnpolago. 



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A tree. Leaves 9-18 in. long ; leaflets 4-8 by 2-4 in. ; petiolules J-* in- AcconHnJ 

 eessile or subsessile. Fruit 1-1| in. long, yellowish, turbinate-elhpsoidai.— -^ 

 to GnfiBth the spikes are proliferous at the apex. ^ - p'; -W'^^^- 



, , Li. javamcum, Boemer Smops, Monoffr, i, 99; AgTaiaDookkoo, Cttt^ -^^^'^ ^^^^ ^rf, 

 ; li. aqueum, Miq^, in Ann. Mus. Lngd.-Bat. iv. 34 : and L. huniile, Massic. 







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