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14. BEDDOMZSA, Hook. fil. 





Trees' or s!iru1>3. 



flowers of mode- 



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quite entire. Racemes ov panicles axillary, few-flowered \ ^- 



rate size, subglobose liermaphrodite. Calyx 4-6-partite, with broadly 

 ovate imbricated segments. Petals 4-6, orbicular, much _ imbricated. ^ 

 Stam trial tube short or globose, crenulate ; anthers 5-6, sessile, P'^^J^^^^jJ^ 

 or wholly exserted ; connective thick ; cells narrow, marginal, at lengtQ 

 confluent at the apex. Ovary short, h^iry, more or less immersed in tlie 

 inconspicuous disk, 3-celled ; cells 2-ovuled; style short thick, stigma 

 3-lobed, pyramidal Fruit coriaceous, ellipsoidal ovoid or subglobose, 

 often acute at the apex, more or less ribbed and densely covered yitn 

 closely set scurfy and stellate tomentum, tardily dehiscent, 2-3-cellea, 

 Bepta thin and often obsolete, breeds 3-5, large, more or les^ angular, 



'eddome), — Disteib. An endemic genus. 

 1. B. indlca, Hooh f. in Benth <b Hook. f. 



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I. a. inaica, Hoolc. /. in Benth. r& tlook,. j. ijten. rt. i. oou, j "••"<? 

 shoots somewhat lepidote, leaflets 3 elliptic obtuse glabrate base somewnai 

 cuneate, panicles lax racemose, pedicels usually long, flowers 5~l-raerous, 

 staminal tube sfiort, antbers 5, fruit ovoid to oblong. Bedd. m Irani. , 

 Linn. SOC.XX.Y. 212; Anal. Geri. Ivi.; Fl. Sylvat. t. 135 (smaller figure}, t,^ 



Westekn Peninsula, from Kurg to Cape Comorin, ascending to 3-4000 ft. Auemi^a 



roclcs, Sispara, 1?6. JTi^/tf, 417. •: , '''ii;n 



A twigay shm\i. 'Leaves 6-12 in., leaflets 3-7 by U-3 in.; Ftio™«%3';J '^t 

 Flowers \-\ in. diam. Fruit l-Uin.long, more or less furrowed, rough with cio&e-s 







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Wsty scales. . . 



••tW. B.'simplicifolla, Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 135 ; young pf 



fecurfy scales, leaflets solitary elliptic or narrowly so subacumina^ 

 glabrescent base obtuse or somewhat cuneate, panicles or racemes iro" 

 much shorter than the leaves to much longer or the flowers occasionauj' 

 solitary, flowers "5-6-merous, staminal tube large and globose or^smauer, 

 iruit as in the genus. - ■; . 



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Western Pknixsula ; from tlie S. Concan to the Anamallay hills. , . 



A tree up to 3 ft. in girth and 25 in height. Leaves 3-6 by 1 ^-3^ in. ;^ petioles j-^i \^ 

 . much thickened and quasi-articulate^l near the apex. Ilowera variable ni size, t^^ , • 

 V diam ; pedicels ^V^i i^- long. Fruit oblong, size of pigeon's egg.— Beddome gives 

 * following varieties. . :.^^*''r''' fou*- 



Var. a; racemes much longer than the leaves, flowers J-iV i»- ^^^'^"^' ^^ 

 tonientose.— Wynaad, Tinnevelly hills and Travancor, alt. 2-4000 ft ^ ^.f-n^^ers 

 Var.^ parvijlora; panicles very small not much longer than the petio^s, uv. ,,, , 

 iT-J m. dmin. rufous-tomentose.— Anamallay and Pulney hills, alt 3-4000 It. ' V'jlv ■ 

 Var. y, racemo9a; racemes filiform longer than the leaves, pubescence scurj. ;^ 



Wvnaad. Coorc^. S nunnr.. ^ -^y-L ':^:P:}: 



Wynaad, Coorg, S. Canara. 



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15. iJARAPA, Aubl. 



Glabrous littoral trees. Leaves 2- or 4- or sometimes 6- Violate ;]«^' 

 lets opposite quite entire feebly nerved. Panidea lax, axillary, no . _ 

 hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-fid, short. ^ Felals 4, reflexed, contorted bi 



trosely (as seen from within). Staminal 



8-dentate 



at apex, teeth bipartite ; iwithers 8, 2-celled, just included, sessUea^ ^r 



of tube, alternating with the teej;h:'-*i>^;t fleshy, cup-shaped, af^X%.yie 

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base 



sliort," "stigma discoid. ._ ^ , ^ 



seeded; pericarp' fleshy dehiscing by 4 valves o 





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