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A' A large straggling shrub or small tree. Flowers sometimes almost sessile. 

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..,5. Itt. microcarpa, Wight Ic. t. 975 ; leaves 1-3 by i-li m. elliptic- 

 br broadly-lanceolate coriaceous margins revolute, cymes 1^2 in. lax^ fruit 

 oblong narrowing to the acute apex, testa light brown. . ^ .. ,; ji 



Western Peninsula; from the Concan and Maisor southwards; dry jungles at 

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An erect shrub. Leaves smooth above, glaucous beneath. Cymes di-trichotomous. 



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.. M. ovalifolla, Wight Ic. t. 976 ; leaves 1-3 by |-U in. ovate or 



broadly lanceolate coriaceous margins revolute, fruit ovoid subacute, ^5^*^ 

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 Cat. 4409. . 



/ Western Peninsula; Nilghiri hills, Courtallam and Ootacamund, Wight, &c. 'lsii> 

 ,? A somewhat diffuse shrub. ;f Cymes trichotomous, 2-3 in. Petals orbicular.— Very 

 closely allied to M, miQrocarpa^ of which it may prove to be a variety. ^ ^ v ,- V . >"= 



V . TO', dlBcolor, Wall. Cat, 4337 ; leaves 3-5 by li-2| in. elliptic sub- 

 •cuminate membranous flat, cymes |-1 in. compact. Am. in Ajin^Mt 

 Hist. iii. 152. Cassine discolor, Wall, in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, n. 



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Subtropical Himalaya; Kumaon, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 4^7000 ft.> 

 Khasia Mts., alt. 1-7000 ft., J. D. K & T. T,; Texasserim, Wallich &C' 

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. bivalvis, Wall. Cat. 4340^ leaves 4-8 bjr li-2| in. ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate membranous' or subcoriaceous margins flat, 

 cymes 2-4 in. di-trichotomous branches widely divaricating. Celastrus 

 bivalvis, Jack, in Hook. Bot. Misc. il 71 : Eoxb. FL' Ind. ed. Carey, n. 

 399 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 6. Euonymus ? laeta, WaU. Cat. 4294. E. capiUa- 

 ceus, Wall. Cat. 7270. E. filiformis, Wall. Cat. 4295. ' Paracelastrus bi- 

 valvis, Mki fl Ind. Bat. I pt. 2, 591. 



Eahtern Peninsula; from Tenasserim to Penang, Wallich; Malacca, Ma . . 

 DisTRiB. Sumatra, Java. 



_ Branches srendcr. Peduncles extra-axillary, usually springing from the tranches at 

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 tinuous with the disk, persistent, the upper surface cristate or lamellate or 

 covered with tesby villi or naked. Stametie 6, inserted on the disK , 



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