600 XL. iLiciNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Hese. 



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obtuse angles. — Brandis gives Sikkim as a habitat for this, but I doubt the plant he 

 here alludes tobeinglthe same Bpecies ; his plant has verj stout branches like those of/. 

 rfrp2/^ena, and very shortly pedicelled young fruits, has 4 pyrenes, lanceolate minutely 

 serrate leaves, and Inhabits elevations of near 10,000 ft. ; it may be a new species, but 

 the Bpecimens are too imperfect for determination. , 



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 celled (not cymose nor on peduncled umbeliules). Drape 4-6-celled. 



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* Leaves quite evMre^ or with 2-3 spinulose teeth. (See 9. embelioides.) v! 



5. I- malabarica, Bedd. Flor.Sylv. t. 143; leaves 2-4-in. narrowly 



* elliptic-oblong acute or apiculate qnite. entire, $ flowers in shortly 



panicled umbellules, calyx usually 6-nierous, drupe very small puberuluus 



usually 6-celled, style short cyUndric stout. L Wiglitiana, Dak. & Gios. 



Bomb. Flx/r. 143, not of Wall . ; 



Western Peninsula; on the Ghats, from the Concan southwards, a«o«jdingtc 



3000 ft. \ - . X. Mh 



A large tree, everywhere quite glabrous. Leaves variable in length and breadtn. 



Ions ; 9 fl. solitary or fascicled, the fascicles very rarely peduncled, pedicels i-^ in* 

 Culyx-lohes usually 6, broad, subacute, ciliate. Fetals 4-6, orbicular, ciliolate, co^f^^^® 

 at the base in the <? , less so in the ? . Stamens often only 4, inserted at the base ot tne 

 c^.rolla, filaments short; anthers broadly oblong. Ovary of ^ imperfect, with 4 ™DUte 

 stigmas. Drvpe J in. dium., depressed-globose, usually 6- or more celled, j 

 dent stout style.— This has been distributed as/. Wiahttana, by Perottet an 



3 others. 



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. 6. X. Walkerl, Wight d- Card. mss. ex Tkwaites Enum. 184 (1858); gla- 

 brous, leaves |-1 in. subse.isile orbicular obovate or broadly elliptic very 

 coriaceous obtuse rounded or retuse with a few teeth near the *'£) P*^„ J- 

 4-5-merous, c? in very shortly peduncled umbellules, ? shortly pediceiiea. 

 I. Walker j VWr^? -i-n P.u77 e^-. M^-t !/;.„„ ict;Q r^^ i «nfi T. emargmeud, 



Walkeri 

 Turcz. l.c. 



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Wesstern Peninsuiji; Pulney Mts., Wight. Ceylon; in the Central province al • 

 5-8000 ft.> ^ • - " ' .-f'^ 



A small densely branched tree. Leaves very coriaceous, usually obovate vnt a 

 emarginate or 2-lobed or 3-4-toothed tip, margins recur^'ed, nerves below few ana si- 

 der ; petiole tV in. Flowers ^\ia. diam., white, 4-5-merou8. t'«/»/a;-ZyM 4-0; ^^ 

 acute. Petals orbicular, spreading, connate in both sexes. Stamens 4-5, i"^*;'^ , „y. 

 the corolla in both sexes. Drupe J in diam., globose, with 4-5 triangular haruw 

 mg stones; stigma sessile, 4-5-lobcd.— A very variable plant, named W'«fY"„. ,io 

 pepdently by Thwaites and Turczaninoff. Thwaites has a var. major with emp 

 apiculate leaves. Turczaninors /. emarghi^lla is the more common torm 



plant. 



** Leaves toothed or serrate. {See also 6. Walkeri.) 



24I3 in.. elliptic' 



flowers 4-merous, ^ in short subsessile cymes, ? fascicled, drupe s • 

 diam. with 4 hard stones. Wight III. t. 142; nwaiies Inum. i» > 

 Beddom^ Fl. Sylv.XU2. L nilagirica, Miqrnl H. Mohen.U5fi. ^^ 



^Western PexInsula; Nilghiri and Anamar% tills; alt. 6-8000 ft-, WigM, 



(.EiLoii, on the Bopatalawa Plains, alt. 6000 ft.. ThWait 



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