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Flowers in simple of pabiciilately disposed racemes. Ccdpx 5-fid or -lobea, 

 recurved. :Petah 5^^ inserted under the margin of tlie^disk, spreading or 

 recurved/ "^tai^ew5 inserted with the petals. Disk flesh'y, 5-loDed. Ovary 

 free, glabrous or puberulous at the base, crowned at the top with a tuft of 

 hairs ; styles 2 filiform, stigmas small capitate ; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. 

 Capsule entire or 2-lobed, 1-2-cfclled, dehiscing slowly with 2 valves, 1-2- 

 seeded. / ' Seeds erect, completely or partially covered by a fleshy aril, 

 albumen abundant fleshy; cotyledons linear-oblong. — Distrtb. Indiaj 

 Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula^ ■ . ^ ' "'^ 



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/ 1. K.. pulcherrima, Wall Cat. 4334; petals elliptic-oblong -^ m., disk 

 slightly puberulous forming a shallow crenate cup round the glabrous base 

 of the ovary, fruit narrowly oblong. K. calophylla, Wall. Cat. 4335. -1^ 

 robuwsta, Kurz mss. Rhesa Moja, Ham. mss, ex Am. in Ed, Phil. Joiirn^^^ 

 315 ; Walp. Hep. i. 538. Celastrus robustus, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 626. I^othoc- 





nestis sumatrana, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 531. 



' The Khasia Mts., Silhet and Chittagong ; ascending to 3000 ft. ; Bim a, Griffith ; 

 Tenasserim, Heifer; Singapore, Wallich. — Distrib. Sumatra. ■ . * ; , ' '' 



. A tree.' Leaves 4-7 by 1-2 in., oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glossy above. 

 elites glabrous. Fruit l|-2 in., the apex often produced into a beak, 1-ceuea, 



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*'2.'k. iiaiiffayl, i:am ; petals Jo in- linear-oblong, disk PuM'ijJ^^ 

 forming a crenate cup round the puberulous ovary, fruit broadly odio g 



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'A tree.^ ieav^s 5-9 by 3i-4,in., elliptic-oblong. Spihes g\&.ViCOW. i='m|i-At^"' 

 Closely allied to the last species,' of wbich it may prove to be a variety.' '^"' ' 



** Flowers in panicled spikes or racemes. 



3. K. panlculata 









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, Wall. Cat. 4336 ; fruit f in. Mequa%>-lobed, 1^^^ 

 diverging. Rhesa paniculata, Am. in Ed. Phil. Joiirn. xvl Sp , '^ K 

 Hep. I 538. Trochisandra indica, Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 120 ; Fl ^^'mi 

 Gen. Ixvii. Pyrospermum calophyllum, Miq. Fl Ind. Bat. SnpVkl'T^ ' ^ 



Penang, Wallich,&c.; SnscxtOR^, Maingay ; abundant in Anamallay Hflls, j ^^ 

 dome — Distrib. Sumatra. ;. iiL in 



A tree. i6a?;e^ elliptic-oblong, 6-12 by 2-3 in. ^/ower^ shortly pediceuai^^^ 

 stoutish paniculate racemes. Petals obovate-oblong, flat. Pish lobed, glabrous. ^^ 

 glabrous beneath the tnft of hairs. Fruit vrith the smaller lobe ft^'^^^^^' , f^^ni bi« 

 1-seeded.— I have seen no specimen of Beddome's Trochisandra indica, DUi . . :■ 

 description and figure I am not able to distinguish it from the above. y ^ .^ ;■ 



4. K. bipartUa, Laws.; &uit U in. divided nearly to the ^^se in .^ 





2 equal nearly parallel lobes. 



Western Peninsula; Shivagherry hills, TfigJit^ ■' '^ 'Vj^ruitlo^^ 



Leaves S-8 by lf-3 in., elliptic-oblong. PanWe* stontish. -^ff^^"'^' ■. tytbearil 

 narrowly oblong, rounded at the apex, 'black, 1-seeded. Seed not half coverea 7 



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