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Parmarmm.] li. ROSACEiE. - (J. D. Hooker.) 30^ 



Petals 5, sessile or clawed, deciduous. Stamens G-oo , filameuts united into an 

 incomplete ring at the base, or connate into an unilateral buiidle, all perfect or 

 some without anthers. Cm-pels 1 (mrely 2), adnate to one side of the calyx- 

 tiihe, 1-2-celled; style basal, filiform ; ovules 2 collateral or 1 erect. Drupe 

 spherical oblong obovoid or ovoid, with a 1-2-celled 1-2-seeded coriaceous 

 woody or bony stone. Seeds erect, testa membranous, cotyledons large fleshy, 

 radicle small inferior. — Distrib. About 40 species, natives of the tropics of 

 both worlds. 



The Indian species of Parmarmm are very imperfectly known and are prohalAy 

 deferable to several genera distinguishable by their fruit more than by any fliiral 

 character. Of these, P. coatatu/n, polyncurum, ohlongifolium and muUiJlorum, may 

 ftrm one genus with a 2-celled 2-seeded drupaeeons fruit and short stamens, 

 P, nitidum another, with I -celled hardly drupaceous coriaceous fmit and short 

 stamens; and P. a^perxdum a third, with a globose 1 -celled very hard drupe, 

 glabrous, containing a solitary large glabrous seed w^ith a solid ruminated em- 

 wyo. The seeds of P. indicum and iravwacoricum are unknown. P. Jackiannm, 

 penth. [Petrocarya excclsa, Jack), must, if Jack's account of the drupe being included 

 in the enlarged calyx and ha\in2: superposed cells be correct, constitute a fourth 

 genus. 



SuBGEN. 1. CS-rymania, Presl, (Gen.) Leaves eglandular or 2-jjlandular 

 ?t the base. Stamens eqiuilling- or shorter than the calyx-lobes, forming au 

 jaiperfect ring. Drupe oblong or obovoid with a very thick 2-celled stone, 

 the cells lined with soft wool. 



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* Leaves eylandulur at the hose, yrey or dirty white beneath, icith numerous 

 «ouf veins. Stamens (3-10, sinyularly inserted. 



\ P. costatum, JBlumel; leaves 2-4 in. elliptic-oblong obtusely 

 acuminate shining above, base acute, nerves 8-10 pair, petiole rather slender, 

 ^fjwe/ Fl. Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 364. ?P. Sumatranum, Beath. in Ilwk. 

 ^^er Flora, 335. Miquel I c. 353. Kurz, For. Flor. Brit. Burin, i. 4.3.-.. 



Petrocarya sumatrana. Jack, Mai. Misc. ii. 07. 



Eastern Peninsula, Maiacca, and Government Hill, Penang, Maingay. 



™""''. ^W5r.--DisTKiB, Sumatra. 

 A tree 1,5 feet (in Penang). Branches slender; bark pale lu the ^Malacca spe- 

 "jneDs dark with minute lenticels in the Penang one ; petiole \-^ in. PanicU effuse, 

 ««ch branched, clothed with soft tomentum; branches slender, bracts obloug- 

 K"««°>te. Flowers 1 in. long, shortly pedicelled. Calyx-iuU clothed within with 

 ^ng deflexed hairs ; tube longer than the lobes. VetaU obovate. ciliate, equalling' 

 «e calyx-lobes. Cartels 2 : o^^ries densely tomentose. Fruit (of Penang specim™) 

 ;:{i m. long, rounded at the apex, when di7 minutely wrinkled and covered with 

 ^h!te scurfy spots. Setds not seen—But for the smaller leaves with more acuminate 

 ^>nts, they agree with P. sumatraimm, Benth. I have seen no specimen of Illume g 



e]];f;-**:,P<>ly»eurum, Mi,j. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 300; leaves 4-8 in 

 ^Ptic-obloug obtusely acuminate shining above, base rounded, nerves 1^-JO 

 ^h petiole rather slender. 



5^ACCA, Grijgith; Maingav (Kew Herb., 622).— Distbib. Sumatra, 

 numb T^ Plant than P. costatum, differing in the form and size of the leaves and 

 the hZ J^^^^^^ ; the inflorescence and flower are 

 ftin.rr''^^* is black with numerous lenticels, 

 '^"^tran specimens. 



very similar lua 



which is hardly 



^' l*. oblongrifolium, Hook./. ; leaves 6-10 



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