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Sw(Z pendulous, oblong, compressed; testa thin ; cotyledons thin, flat; radicle supe- 



nor.— Maingay notes that this tree is polygamo-dioecious, but all the flo-u'crs I have 



.examined seem to be hermaphrodite. Owing to the minuteness of the parts of the 



; fl^^ unable to make out the structure of the ovary and ovules. 



^ That I have given is, I think, correct. 



^ ^, - The genus Pentaspadon -was founded on a Bornean plant (Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 



; -: 168 t. 24), afterwards published from Sumatran specimens as Nothoprotium by JVIi- 

 i^^lCFh Ind. Bat. Suppl. 527), who referred it to BurseracecB. Miquel's description 



r ;■ IS most imperfect, and I added to it in the Genera Plantarum the character of having two 



r. Styles, taken from flowers sent to me by Miquel as belonging to his plant, but which 

 If^^® to belong to a totally different one. Marchand (Rev. Anacard. 90, 183) was 

 the first to identify Nothoproiium with Pentaspadon, and his identification I have 

 confirmed by specimens subsequently received from Miquel. The fruit of the original 



species being unknown, it is possible that that here described may not be con- 

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Trees with few stout soft "branches. Leaves few at the ends of the branches^ 

 alternate, odd-pinnate, deciduous ; leaflets opposite, quite entire. Racemes 

 simple and panicled, terminal, fascicled. Flotvers small, monoecious or dioecious, 

 lascicled, shortly pedicelled. Calyx 4-5-lobed, persistent ; lobes rounded, im- 

 rP^te. Pe^«/5 4-6, imbricate. Disk annular, 4-5-lobed. Male fl. Sta7ne7is 

 o-lO, inserted within the disk. Ovary 4-6 parted. Fem. el. Ovary sessile, 

 oblong, l-<;elled ; styles 3-4, stout, stigmas simple or capitellate ; ovule penduloua 

 rom near the top of the cell. Drupe small, compressed, reniform, crowned 

 y the distant styles ; stone Lard. Seed compressed ; embryo curved, cotyle- 



ons flat fleshy, radicle superior. Distrib. About 12 species, of which most 

 ^e African. 



l.O. Wodier, Jioxb. Fl Ind. ii. 293 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. i. 171 ; Thivaites 

 ^nm. 78 ; Grah. Cat. Bomh PL 42 ; Wt. Ic. t. 60 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 123 ; 

 ^m. Cat 8476 ; Pw/le BL t 31 : Dalz. i^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 51 ; Brandis For. 

 ^^:J^^^~Meede IIorL MaL iv. t. 32. 



^r'^oughout the hotter parts of India, from the extreme N.W. and along the foot of 

 e Himalaya (ascending to 4000 ft.) to Assam, Bibbia, Tenasseeim, the ANmAMAk 

 ^ -^s^s, and Ceylon. 



:,. • ^ deciduous ugly tree 40-50 ft. ; trunk very thick ; branches few ; bark esfoliat- 

 - - let ^^^^^ P'*^^^^ clothed with stellate down. Leaves 12-18 in. ; petiole terete ; leaf- 

 ''$, j>^ pairs, petiolulate, 3-6 in., oblong-ovate, caudate-acummato, quite entire, 



sho^^ slender, S compound, ? simple pubescent. Flowers 4-merous, fascicled, 

 Iq^v cymose, inodorous; bracts ciliate. Sepals obtuse, ciliate. Petals twice a» 

 in th ^1^°^' spreading, purplish and greenish-yellow. Stamens equalling the petals 

 CTP f ' Brtipe red.— The tissues abound in starch, whence it is most easy to in- 

 vt ^ .ease this tree by cuttings of almost any part. 



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auif ^^-^^ flowering trees. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate ; leaflets numerous, 

 Sj ^^^^Q, coriaceous. Panicles ample, nodding. Flotvers dioecious. Male. 

 ^y^ cupular^ J^lobed ; lobes ovate, valvate. Petals 4, oblong, imbricate. 

 of tt ^A^^^ annular, obscurely 4-lobed. Stamens 4, inserted below the mardn 

 »p7fi 1 ' ■^^^^^^^^^^^^''y ovary colimmar. Fem. fl. Calyx 4-lobed, lobes 

 J !:;/y^^iarged in fruit. PetaU 4. Disk ? Stamens 4.? Or^r?/ sessile, ovoid, 

 fionT ^ ®*^'^® terminal, uneaually S-fid, stigmas capitate ; ovule pendulous 

 lu Bear the top of the cell. Fmit diy, globose, pubescent, pointed by 



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