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1. Meliauthus major, Linn. ; a South African plant, occurs m 

 Kumaon, where it is said to be an introduction, and has been cultivatea m 

 the Nilghiris where it was first noticed by Wight (Kew Distrib. n. 542} ; p 

 is established at Ootacamund {Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixxi.), and in 

 Bhotan reaches a limit of 9500 feet {Griff. Journ. 265). It is an nnderstiruD 

 with glabrous coarsely serrate leaves emitting a fetid scent when br"^^ p,' 

 it is synonymous withM. Himalayanus, Wall. Cat. 1190; Miq. ^'^J^^'^^-^t 

 Jnd. Or. Hohenacker. n, 1059 ; Planch, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Land. xx. 4lt), 

 t. 20, f. 1-13; Book f. in Journ. Bot. 1873, 356 —The claw of the petals was 

 pubescent in the flower of Wallich's specimen, which I examined, and tnus 

 the character fails which Dr. Planchon relied on for the discrimmation oi 



Wallich's species. 



22. STAPK-S-X.SA, Linn. 



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Branched shrubs or trees, with terete branches. Leaver opposite, stipulate, 

 trifoliate or pinnate ; leaflets stipellate, serrulate. Inflorescence lateral ana 

 terminal, bracteate, pedicels jointed in the middle. Flowers regular, Her- 

 maphrodite, pendulous. Sepah 5, oblong, imbricated, coloured, deciduou^s. 

 Petals 5, as long as the sepals, obovate, imbricated, white. Stamens 5, J^^^,^^^ . 

 on the edge of the disk between its lobes ; filaments slender, pubescent oeiow, 

 , anthers versatile, shortly oblong. Ovary 3-24obed and -celled ; styles^^j 

 slender; stigmas subcapitate ; ovules 6 or more in each cell, m 2 ^^ iV 

 anatropous. Capsule membranous, tesicular-inflated, 3-2-lobed and "^^^^^^^ 

 carpels dehiscing at the apex along the ventral suture. Seeds tew, s 

 globose, exarillate ; testa hard ; albumen fleshy.— Disi^oB. About 4 sneciea 

 occurring in North America, Europe, and Asia. 





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; X S. EmWl/ TTa^Z. (7a«. 4275 ; leaves glabrescent or thinly pii^esceDt 

 beneath trifoliolate leaflets nearly equal ovate or elliptic acuminate pa 

 ■ beneath membranous base obtuse or cuneate lateral ones subsessile termi 



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one petioled, anthers shortly apiculate. Brand. For. FL 114. 



Western Temperate Himalaya; from Marri to Kumaon, alt. &-7000 ft— Dis^itfB 

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A Bmall tree with spotted bark. Leaves 4-14 in. ; leaflets 2-6 by 1-3 la.; F^ 

 li-6iin. ; terminal petiole ^-1| in. ; stipules linear, stipels setaceous, l^^P [^'^ ^^oi 

 Cymes rather dense, 1^-4 in. ; flowers \ in. long, about equalling the P®^ q \ -fji^, 

 svlesl-Zm. long; base turbinate.— Probably a form of the N. American to. if^^^^ 

 Linn.^ diflering onlj from the tjpe by less pubescent foliage and anther-tips less o ^ ^^ 



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Glabrous and shining trees or shrubs, with smooth terete ^Tj°f, .g' 

 Leaves opposite, stipulate, usually odd-pinnate ; leaflets opposite, stiP^" ^j' 

 serrulate, subcoriaceous. Panicles terminal and axillary ; flowers s ._ 

 regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-partite, imbricated. Petals 5, "" ^^ , 

 cated. iitamens 5, inserted outside the lobed or crenulate raijea 

 filaments flattened ; anthers short. Ovanj sessile, 3-lobed and -c^u ^^ 

 styles 3, combined or distinct ; stigmas subcapitate ; ovules ^ J^°f ^jj,,^^^ 

 more and then in two rows. Fruit subglobose, indehiscent, .s-v^ 



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