BucMandta.] iv/ HAMAMELiDEiG. (C. B. Clarkp,) 429 



7. BUCKXiANDZA, Br. 



_A tree attaining 80 ft. high. Leaves alternate, cordate-ovate, acuminate, 

 entire, loDg-petioled ; stipules solitary or in pairs, large, oblong, coriaceous, 

 deciduous. Inflorescence of 2-5-peduncled heads, at first enclosed between a 

 pair of stipules ; flowers adnate by their calyces, about 8 in a head, polygamous. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; limb 5-lobed. Petals in the ^ flower linear- 

 spathulate, fleshy, variable in number; in the $ rudimentary. Staiiiens 10-14 

 (in the 5 r one) ; filaments long. Oyary half-inferior, 2-celled ; styles 2, separate, 

 8oon divaricate ; ovules in each cell 6 in two rows. Capsule nearly superior, 

 woody, subglobose, endocarp homy, showing a tendency to separate from the 

 exocarp. Seeds in each cell 6, oblong, trigonous; the upper wingless solid, 

 without any embryo, the lower one in each cell winged fertile. 



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1. B. populnea. Br. in Wall 



wt^A two plates. B. populifolia, H. f. 8f T, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 86 

 Forest FL Brit. Burma, i. 445. Liquidambar tricuspis, Miq. FL Lnd. 



Suppl: 346, tvith a Jim 



Temperate Himalaya, from Nepal to Bhotan, alt. 5000-8000 ft., common. 

 ^HAsiA Mrs., alt. 4000-6000 ft., common. Burmah, Griffith, Kurs.—DisrRiB. Java, 

 ^^matra. 



^ Branches and adult leaves glabrous. Leaves 3-8 in. with a cartilaginous edge, 

 ?We entire or 3-cuspidate especially in young plants, petiole 1-5 in. glabrous or 

 Jfnen young densely silky with brown hairs. Peduncles (at least at first) densely 

 Drown silky; as are the young ovaries. — The Malaj;an Zijwf^aTwSar trictcspis does 

 ^t)t differ in the smallest point from Himalayan specimens some of which have tri- 

 <^pidate leaves and sericeous petioles. Cf. Kurz in Flora, 1871, p. 289. 



8. AXiTZN6XA,JVoronA^. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate or oblong, glandular-serrate 

 ?|^tent ; stipules deciduous or persistent. Flotcers in dense heads ; heads wr\ 

 "ya We bract, malea raoAmn^^ft. females solitarv, Male heads a mass o 



numerous 



obverse-pyramidal 



:?iigitudinally. 



'»K-Head globose, harsli. Seeds numerous ; lowest 1-2 ot each ceil v.-inged 

 , rcue the upper without wing or emhrj-c— Disirib. Species 2; extending 

 ^Ja haai Bengal to China and Malaya. 



ih ^' excelsa, Noronha in Verh. Bat. Genootsch v. 41, ex Benth. f 

 ^oofc.y. Gen. PL i. pt. ii. 669; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, petiole 

 ,"'■3 in. Xuff t?.^^^ -ci 7?_,v »„«.«,/, ; M.9, Spflirwickia ceragifolia. GriW. 



1 in. Kurz Forest Fl. Brit. Burma, _. *>.,..,., tr, 



JmTf^- ^^^- xix. 99, with two plates. Liquidamhar Altmpa, Blume Fl 

 hi » ■ ^^"- 8, with a figure ; H. f. ^- T. in Jmm. Linn. Soc. u. 86 ; Mtq. Fl 

 ^' ^<^- i. pt. i. 836. L. Altingiana, Blume Bijd. 627. 



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