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at Palor in Mergui; it has troadly linear-oblong leaves 5-7 in., quite glabrous 

 and shining above with 8-10 pairs of very oblique nerves, undersurface alsoglabroiU 

 except the puberulous midrib and nerves ; petiole stout, tomentose. Flowers minute, 

 in very small axillary racemes, densely tomentose, too young to discern their parts. 



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P.? Jackianum, Benth. in HooL Niger Flor. 335 (Petrocarya excelsa, tTocAr, in 

 MaL Mis<2. ii. QQ.); *a large tree, leaves oblong acuminate glabrous, racemes ferru- 

 ginous and tomentose strict erect sparingly branched, stamens 11 xmilateral t"vnce 

 as long as the petals, drupe enclosed in the enlarged calyx and adnate to it, nuts 

 smooth 1 -celled, with an abortive cell usually above the fertile, embryo cylindne.-— 

 Malaya, Ja^?^. But for the description of the fruit, this might be P. asperuhm, Miq. 



Parinarium DiLLKNiFOLiuM, i?. Br. in Wall, Cat, 7520 (Petrocarya dillenifoba, 



iSteud.), is Dipterocarpiis cornutus, Dyer. 



P. ExcELsuM, G. Bon, Gen, Syst. Gard. ii. 479 ; Balz, ^- Gibs. Bomb. Flor. Suppl 31 

 A tree introduced at Goa from Mozambique, and called Matomba by the Portuguese, 

 is imperfectly known and should be ascertained. ' 



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A shrub or small tree. Leaves simple, alternate^ evergi'een, quite 6^^^' 

 Fknvers polygamo-dioecioiis, minute, racemose, ebracteolate. Calyx-tube shortly 

 campanulate ; lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 6 (or 6), oblong, deciduous. '^^J?^^ 

 2 perfect, unilateral. Ca^-pel 1, adnate to one side of the calyx-tube, 1"^^^^^' 

 gtyle basilar ; ovules 2, erect. Fruit oblong, coriaceous, 1-celled, l-seedea, 

 indehiscent. Seed erect, testa membranous pubescent ; cotyledons fleshy, radicle 

 inferior, plumule hairy. 



1. p. urophyllum, A. D. C. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. xviii. 208. Em- 

 Ijelia urophyUa, Wall. Cat. 2309. Celastrus racemosa, Wall. Cat. 4320. , _: 



Eastern Peninsula; Sincapobe, Wallich; Maiacca, Griffith, Maingay^^ 

 Tenasserim or Andaman Islands, Heifer, — Distrib. Borneo. . x. 



Quite glabrous. Leaves 2-3 in., elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, 

 tihining, narrowed at the base into the very short petiole ; nerves faint. Eacea^ 

 slender, axillary, equalling the leaves, rarely branched at the base ; bracts concave, 

 the base of the pedicel. Flowers {^ in. diam., shortly pedicelled. Fruit \ m- ^^°^' 

 dlipsoid, quite smooth and glabrous. 



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Shrubs or trees. Leav 



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i^es alternate, simple, quite entire or sei-rate ^^ J. i^jj. 

 or glandular-serrulate ; petiole often 2-glandular. Flow^rii white or red, so ^ 

 tary fascicled corymbose 

 imbricate. Petals 6. 



lobes 



Cahjx deciduous in fruit; lot>es > 

 Stamens 16-60, perigjnous, inserted in the mouth oi , 

 calyx-tube, filaments free. Carpel 1 



collateral, 



pendulous. Ih'iqye with «ii i^ucmaucuL ur ^-vuiveu, j-acc«^«, ^. — ^ 



Seed pendulous, testa membranous or coriaceous, albumen sea 



; style terminal ; ovules 2, coHf^^ 

 int or 2-vaIved, l-seeded, s»i^^7^„tv 



rugged stone. 



or 0.~DisTRiB. N. temp, regions, rare in the tropics ; species 80 



scented kernels of the Euronean and West Asiatic P. Ma 



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The scented kernels of the European and West Asiatic P. Mahaleb^ L., ^'V^yy 

 the bazaars of N.W. India, and the tree is cultivated in Beluchistan, a^*^ .P^^^^te 

 mrsonthe N.W. frontier; it is a small tree of the Cerasus section, wJtn 



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Di-upe usually pubescent ; stone bony, rugged. 



Flowers subsessHe. 



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