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^18 LI. ROSACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Maddenia, 



carpels, of which both often ripen, from Pygp-um in the form of the fruit habit, and 

 deciduous foliage, and from Frxmits in the flower which is altogether that oi Pygeu^^i- 

 except for the carpels. ; * - 



1. M. bimalaica, Hook.f. ^ Thorns- in Hook. Keio Journ. Bot. Vi. 1854) 



380, t. xii. ; racemes tomentose snort dense-flowered. 



Temperate Eastern Himalaya; Sikkim, Laehen Eiver, alt, 8-1000 ft. Bhotak. 



Griffith, rti. 



A small tree, 20-30 ft. ; bark of branches red brown, shining. Leaves 3-5' !«.. 

 variable in shape, ovate or obovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, rather membran- 

 ous, densely woolly or glabrate beneath, base acute rounded or cordate, cilia of the 

 margin often gland-tipped especially at the base of the leaf; nerves 15-20 pair, ob- 

 lique and nearly straight ; petiole very short indeed; stipules large, linear-lanceo- 

 late, membranous, acuminate,, gland-serrate. Racemes terminal, 1-3 in., dense-flowered. 

 Flowers 8-20, white, shortly pedicelled. Calyx-iuhe turbinate; lobes obtuse and 

 'petals together 10, the latter minute unequal linear-oblong. Starmns 20-30. Cflr-' 

 pels 1 or 2, fusiform, quite glabrous, tapering into short or long styles with diseoia 

 stigmas. Britpe ^ in., broadly ovoid; epicarp thin; stone thickly crustaceous, qui'^ 

 smooth. 



fjV^ft 2. nr. pedicellata. Hook. /. ; flowers subcorymbose on long fll^^er 

 pedicels on a short peduncle. 



MisHMi Hiixs, Griffith. ^" 



1 have very imperfect scraps of this curious species, in unripe fruit only, the p' 

 dicf^ls are 2 in. long and each flower has the unripe oblong-carpels ^ in. long. 



5. PYGEUM, Gcei'tn. 





Evergreens trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, persistent, usually quite en^ir^^ 

 stipules minute, fugacious, basal glands 2 or 0. Flowet's small, i-acemose, som - 

 times unisexual by want of the ovary. Calyx-tiibe obconic urceolate or ^f^.P^^^ 

 late, deciduous ; limb 5-15-toothed, often unequally. Petals minute, 5-6 in tfl 

 6-6-toothed calyx, in the 10-1 5-toothed, villous or tomentose rarely glawotp, 

 often undistinguishable from the calyx-lobes. Stamens 10-50, m ^^f, ^ 



small 



sti^a 

 obscu 



pericarp thin, dry or juicy. Cotyledmis 



DisTRiB. Species abo 



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Differs from Prumis chiefly in the minute villous petals (when present) ^^^^^^ 

 of the fruit. The often conspicuous basal pair of glands on the leaf ^^^7^^^^\v.^ pe- 

 a few species have scattered glands, and one has bullate glands on the tip of i^ 



, formed ^ ^ ^ 



* Ovary j/labrous or nearly so. 



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1. P. acuminatum, Coleh. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. ^^^' *' J Lce^es 

 oblong-lanceolate caudate-acuminate quite glabrous, basal glands 0; ^^-^ 

 slender villous, petals 6 villous. Kurz, For. Flor. Bnt. Barm. i< -435. y 

 balaneus, Wall. Cat. 7496. .■ 



Eastern Bengal ; Khasia Mrs., Colebrooke, Wallich. CmTTA.oo:fQ,KuT2^^^^^ 

 A tree. Leaves 4-6 by 1^-3 in ; nerves spreading: petiole \ in. -^^'^^en,io- 

 «qualling the leaves, suberect, 4-angled; pedicels slender. Flowers yd^oyi'^-^{^^s, 

 odorous. Calyx campanulate, acutely 6-toothed. Petals 6, clawed, o^^^; ^9^ 

 Stamens SO-40. Ovary glabrous; style very slender, eiserted. l>ruj(>e 1 v 

 Tersely, dark-purple. 4 



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