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A tree. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, abruptly pinnate ; leaflets opposite, 

 entire. Racemes axillary and terminal. Flowers regular, polygamo- 

 dioecious. Sepals 4-5, imbricated in 2 rows. Petals 4-5, equal, spathulate, 

 shorter or but little longer than the sepals, hairy at the margin, without 

 ' scales. Stamens 8-7, included, inserted wdthin the annular glabrous disk ; 

 filaments filiform, pubescent ; anthers small, glabrous. Ovary sessile, didy- 

 mous, muricated, 2-celled ; ovules solitary, ascending. aS'<^4/^6 short, thick ; 

 stigma thick, hairy. Fruit 1-2-lobed; parts eIli{)Soidal, diverging, mun- 

 cated with pyramidal tubercles, indehiscent, glabrous inside. Seeds exaril- 

 late; testa coriaceous outside, fleshy, pilose, simulating an aril; embryo 

 curved; cotyledons very large, thickly fleshy, superposed. — Disteib. A 



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only I elliptic lanceolate or oblong more or less acuminate glabrous closely 



Noronhianum 



reticulated base obtuse or cuneate, racemes short simple or branched sub- 



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 Cat. 8095. Euphoria (sp.), Wall. Cat 8054.— WolL Cat. 8083, 8084. ^ ' 



SiLHET, WaUich; Khasia Mts. and TexNasserim, Oriph Malacca, Sixcapore a:i 

 Penang, Griffith, &c. — Distrib. Java. ^ V* ^ ^ 



A tree, 30-45 or more feet high, with terete puberulent shoots. Leaves 7-13 in. ; 

 leaflets 34-9 by 1-3| in. ; petiolules J-§ in. Racemes 1-4 in. Flowers I in., greeinsn 

 or yellow. Fruit 1 in. or more long, jellow.— The Khasia and gilbet specimens (UlJer 

 from the type by lanceolate and more acuminate leaflets. 



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 leaflets entire or rarely dentate more or less glaucous beneath (the ^^^^ • 

 pair in one species simulating stipules). I njlore&cence terminal and axillary. - 

 Flowers regidar, polygaiDous. Calyx 4-8-li)bed usually cup-shaped. siiDv 

 valvate or somewhat imbricated in bud. Petals small, without scales, as 

 many as or fewer in number than the calyx-lobes, or wanting. ^^^'^^ 

 6-10, inserted within the fleshy glabrous or pubescent disk ; filaments . 

 usually pubescent. Ovary pubescent, 2-3-lobed, usually verrucose ; looes 

 1-celled, 1-ovuled. Style 2-3-lobed, erect. Fruit 1-3-coccous, indehiscen^ 

 gh.bose or oblong, echinate tubercled or smooth. Seeds globose, mcluaeu 

 m a pulpy aril.— Distrib. A genus not separable from Euphoria (/m^-), aj^|* 

 with It contauiing about 30 species, confined to India the Indian Arciu 

 pelago S. China and Australia; in the last country about 10 species occur. ,. 



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