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Crudia.] L. leguminos^. (J. G. Baker.) 271 



Canara 



Liojlets oblong, rigidly coriaceous, acute, 2-4 in. long, venulose, the upper of the 

 iippermost pair sometimes apparently terminal; midrib central, reining pinnate; 

 petiulules ^~\ in. Fanicles copious, axillary and terminal, formed of dense slender 

 cjliudrical racemes ; pedicels spreading, gV^ ^°- Cf^^^^ broadly campanulate, under 

 jTj lu. long, -with a pair of minute adpressed bracteoles. Filaments twice as long as 

 ' ie sepals. Pod turgid, 1^-2 in. long, rigid, sublignose, not at all oblique. 



..J x^x^«.**v.**.- J * ; J37 



. Ovary stalked, few-oviiled ; style filiform, 

 at, rigidly coriaceous, 2-valved. Seeds exal- 

 nnft African, the rest Troi>. ^\jnerican. 



108. CRUDZA, Schreh. 



Glabrous shrubs or trees. Leaves odd-pinnate,* with conspicuously alternate 

 leaiiets. Flowers m ienrnnoX or lateral racemes. Calyx-tube very short, with 

 the disk nearly basal; segments 4, ohlong, imbricated, persistent, reflexed. 

 Petals^ 0. Stamens 10, exserted, filaments free, filiform ; anthers oblong, 



versatile, dehiscing longitudinally 

 fitigma terminal capitate. Pod fiat 



buminous,— DisTRiB. Species 10, 



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1. C. zeylanlca, Benth. in Tram. Linn, Soc, xxv. 314; Bedd, FL Sylv. 

 1. 190. Detarium zeylanicum, Thwaites Enum. 414. 



Ceylox, near Caltura, Thwaites, 

 . A tall tree, with slender glabrous branchlets. Leaflets 3-5. oUong, short-stalked, 

 rigidly subcoriaceous, rather oblique, obtusely pointed, bright green above, pal 

 ^eneath, strongly veined. Bacenies dense, terminal, on short branches, as long as ^. 

 SQorterthan the leaves ; pedicels reflexed, finally ^ in., equalling the retlexed coria- 

 J^us sepals. Ovary distinctly stalked, oblique-oblong, densely clothed with pale 

 Drown tomentum. Ovules .'^-4. Pod not seen. 



er 

 or 



109. SARiLCA 



Erect trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate, glabrous, rigidly coriaceous. Flotvers 

 ^aense sessile corymbose axillaiy panicles, with subpetaloid reddish bnu;- 

 ^^^5. Calyx with the disk at the summit of a cylindrical tube ; di\ isioiis 4, 

 «wong, unequal, subpetaloid. Corolla 0. Stamens 3-8, exserted with long 



IhSTR 



IB 



^uled With a stalk produced beyond the disk ; st 

 capitate. Pod flat, dehiscent, rigidly coriaceous. 

 • Species 6^ restricted to India and Malaya. 



indica, Linn. Mant 98 : leaflets 6-1 



Ovary 



long, filiform, stigma 

 p.p.ds exalbuniinous. — 



PW^istent ascending, sepals about half as long as the calyx-tube, stamens 

 J7% 7. £edd. FL Sylv. t. 57. S. arboiescens, Burm. Fl. Ind. 85, t. io, 



^•2. S. 



^...ana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Jiat. i. »4. Jonesm Asoca, 



18; DC. Prodr.\\.m; Wall. Cat. 6822; ^^'^^ V^'*''fo 



206; Bot. Maq. t. 3018; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. J- 1. 82. 



w. PI ii 9S7 —Rhpfidp. Ifort. Mai. V. t. 59. 



Ro 



^ and Mai^cca.- DiSTHiB. Malay isles. , , , 



1»U ;i T ^""^"^^ '"""e. Leaves sessile or subsessile ; leaflets oblong or oblong-knceo- 

 W !i°'' '^^^'^^^' 3-9 i°- long ^'^''^^y su»^coriaceous. Corymbs dense, 3-4 in. 



•if 1 °'-"'^^', t-5 111- iO"K> ueiuw LUC w 



•icteoles. Sepals J-i in., obovate-oblong. 



three 



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*:■ Wrongly given as equally pinnate in the Key. 





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