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428 ; Wall CaL 4012 ; Mtq, 1. c. ; DC. Prodr. iii 

 w, Sp. 217. Combretum sericeum^ Wall, in Herb 



Getonia nitida, Both 



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On hot hills, alt. 500-2500 ft., abundant throughout the DEccANand from Assam 

 to Singapore. ' • 



A dense shrub 6-12 ft. high, often gregarious, diffuse ^ith drooping branches, not 

 at all scandent, generally rusty villous ; in the variety nitida of Eoth^the upper sur- 

 face of the leaves is glabrous shining. Leaves 2-6 in., not narrowed into the petiole 

 which is i-^in. Panicles often large and then more or less nodding. Flowers very 

 like those of Terminalia and hardly larger. Base of stamens and style pilose or gla- 

 brous. CalyX'\oh^& in fruit ^-1 in. long, broad-lanceolate, becoming^ more or less 

 papery, sometimes transparent showing conspicuously the veins. Fruit itself less than 

 \ in. long. Kurz, in Journ. As, Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 69, divides this shrub into two 



species, viz. : — .■■-•^r 



1. C. nutans] leaves pubescent rarely almost glabrous, longer stamens ^-| as long 



as the calyx-lobes. ' , , 



2. C/floribunda ', leaves glabrous, longer stamens as long as the long bluntisn 

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Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or falsely opposite, petioled, entire. 

 Flowers in dense globose heads, on axillary peduncles much shorter than tne 

 leaves. Ca/yx-tube long attenuated above the ovary, subpersistent ; limb small 

 with 5 lobes, deciduous. Petals 0. Stamens 10 in two series. Ovary inferior, 

 1-celled ; style filiform, simple; ovules 2 pendulous from the top of the ceJi* 

 Fruits small, coriaceous, compressed 2-winged, packed horizontally into.dens^ 

 heads. Seed 1 ; cotyledons convolute. — Distrib. Species 5 : of which one is 

 Tropical African, the other four Indian, 



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1, A. latifolia, Wall ; Bedd. Fl Sylv, 1 15 ; leaves broad eUiptic obtuse 

 at both ends, peduncles 1 or more from the same axil often branched; bracteoi^ 

 inconspicuous, ripe fruita shining glabrous the beak as long as the nucleus o 

 longer. Wall Cat. 4015 ; Brand. For. Fl 227. Conocarpus latifolia, xj; 

 Prodr. iii. 17 ; Boxb. Sort. Beng. 34 and Fl Lnd. ii. 442 ; Boyle HI. J. ^ 

 W. 8f A. Prodr. SIQ ; Wight Lc. t. 994 ; Balz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl 91 ; i^t?-/*' 

 lnd. Bat i. pt. i. 605. Andersonia altissima, Herb. Madr. 



From the Eimalaya to Ceylon ; very common, ascending to 3000 ft. Not m 

 Transgangetic Peninsula. \^ 



Attains 80 ft., but u.^ally occurs as a small tree ; leafless' during most of ^® ^ 

 season. Leaves sometimes 5 in. \yith a petiole }f in., usually much smaller, somej 

 acute, never acu*^*-"*-" ^ ^- t r , _^ ?„-« •^cfv-nubesce 



Fruit sometimes 

 smaller 



Vak. glabra ; leaves glabrous beneath. 



Var. villosa ; leaves small densely rusty villose on both surfaces. 

 Clarke. ^j, 



Var. ^wryi/oZia; leaves small (i in.) silky pubescent Central Provinces. ^^^ 

 Far. Fl. 22%. \ J Jt 



2. A. acuminata, Wall-^ Bedd. Fl Sylv. t. 16; leaves ^^}f^f^^^Q\{ 



long acute at both ends villous or pubescent beneath, peduncles " ' " 

 clustered) very rarely divided, ripe fruits shininff dabrous. ^^^^^^Z' W(^ 



466 



%ves sometimes 5 in. \yith a petiole ^ in., usually much smaller, s^?^^ ^j^^ 

 r acuminate. Innovations and peduncles more or less rusty-pube • 

 -irnes f in. (excluding the beak) by \ in. including the vings, usu 



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 A. hirta, 



£^mnd. For. Fl. 228 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 466. " A. hiria, "^ 

 6^. 4016. Conocarpus acuminata, Roxh. Hart. Beng. 34 and Fl.l^- ^/ ^^ 

 W. ^ A. Prodr. 316 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 17 and Mem. Comhr. t. 3 ; Mtq. 

 Bat. i.^i.\. 605. ' > 



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