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SLVI, AKACARDIACEiE. (J. D. Hookcr.) 



r Tapiria. 



patent, pubescent, at length glaLrate. Flowers shortly pedi celled, L^ in. diam. Drupe 

 ^ in. long, pedicelled. 



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Juss. 



Erect or scandent shruhs or trees. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate ; leaflets 

 niunerous, subopposite, serrate. Panicles axillary and terminal.^ Flowers small, 

 green, polygamous. Calyx 5-partite; segments imbricate, persistent. Petals 5, 

 small, oblong, imbricate. Bisk broad, 5-lobed. Stamens 10, inserted at the 

 base of the disk ; anthers globose. Ovary in the (J immersed in the disk, 4r-5- 

 lobed, with 4-5 styles ; in the $ ovoid, more free, 1-celled ; style short, conic, 

 Btignia simple ; ovule pendulous from the top of the cell. Drupe oblicLuely ob- 

 long, fleshy J stone rugose, crustaceous. Seed oblong, testa membranous ; coty- 

 ledons large, plano-convex ; radicle superior. — Disxeib, Species 8 or 10, chiefly 

 American. 



1. T. hirsuta, Hoohf. in Benth ^ Hook.f, Gen, Plant, i. 423; Robergia 

 hirsuta, Roxb, FL Ind. ii. 455 ; Pegia nitida, Uoleb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv, 

 364 ; Phlebochiton, Wall in Trans. Med. ^ Phys. Soc. Calc. vii. 230 ; P. ex- 

 tensum, Cat. 8499. 



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Cektral and Eastern tropical Himaxaya, from Nipal and Sikkim, ascending to 

 4000 ft, ; to Bhotan, Griffith. Assam, Silhet, and Chittagokg. 



A scandent shrub, more or less clothed With soft villous tomentum. Leaves 8-12 

 in. ; petiole villous, slender; leaflets petiolulate, &-7 pairs, 1-4 in., oblong, acuminate, 

 membranous, rarely quite entire, base cordater PanicZes villous; bracts ovate. 

 Flowers -^ in. diam., pale, sweet-scented. Dnipe the size of a currant, black ; flesh 

 next the stone celltilar and fall of viscid brown balsam. 



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11. FBNTASPABON, Hook. f. 



Trees, icaye^ odd-pinnate •, leaflets opposite sulbsesaile, quite entire. Pa^ 

 mcles axillary, peduncled, branched, branchiets very slender. Flowers pediceUed, 

 minute, hermaphrodite. Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 5, oblong-obovate, 

 strongljr imbricate. Stamens 5, minute, inserted at the base of the disk, alter- 

 nate with 5 short subulate staminodes which are free or adnate to the side of the 

 disk, filaments short, broadly subulate ; anthers didymous. Disk cupular, ob- 

 scurely 10-lobed. Ovary seated on the disk, very minute, l-celled, contracted into 



firom the upper part 



globose or obliquely oblong 



1. P. t velutinus, Hook, f.) petioles leaflets beneath and panicles 

 clothed with velvety tomentum. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



Branchiets stout, woody, cylindric, covered M'ith close-set scars of fallen leaves, tips 

 velvety. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches; petiole 6- 10 in. stout, cylindric, 

 velvety, bearing no leaflets on the lower third or fourth ; leaflets 2-3^ in. subsessile 

 except the^_ petiolulate terminal one, oblong, acute or acuminate, base rather oblique 

 and rounded, thinly coriaceous, opaque above with pubescent midrib, thickly tomen- 

 tose beneath ; nerves 12-14 pairs, slender, arched. Panicles usually shorter than the 

 leaves, triangutar, densely velvety, except the flowers, peduncle 2-4 in. ; branchiets 

 very numerous, erecto-patent, strict, very slender indeed, much divided and s " "^ 

 ing. Flowers ^\ix. d!mm. on short glabrous pedicels; bracts minute. ^-^^-'- 



ovate. Petals spreading, minutely puherulous. Stamem and. Oviiry vei^ , — 



compared to the petals. JDrupe 1 in. long, rather scurfy outside, compressed, ovoid, 

 obliquely beaked, 1-celled ; pericarp cellular and full of black varnish, endocarp thin. 



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