Illigera,] Lviii. combretace^. (C. B. Clarke.) ^i 



Burma (Karens); Kurz. Mikir Hills, Khasia; Simom. Tenasserim; Heifer 

 (Kew Distrib. No. 4341) partly. Malacca, Maingay No. 649, 650. 



Stem striate, nearly glabrous. Petiole 2-5 in. ; petiolules |-1 in. ; leaflets elliptic- 

 lanceolate, those from the lower stem broader sometimes nearly orbicular. Cymes 

 often 6-8 in. ; bracteoles very small, ovate, and as the calyx -vrithout minutely pubes- 

 cent Fruit 1 in. lone, the winffs brown nearly elabrous with horizontal striations. 



a variety. 



jgarded 



,8. I. 1 



^ Z. XLhasiana, C. B. Clarke', leaflets glabrous with tufts of long yel- 



xow hairs in the nerve- axils beneath and sometimes minutely setose on the 

 midrib on the upper surface^ staminodes not petaloid concave deeply emarginate, 

 fruit 2\ in. wide (not quite ripe) 2-winged. 



Krasia 



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r. rAo?K5o?i;_Likinsow, 2500-3000 ft., C. B. Clarke, 



'^'Stem striate, nearly glabrous. Petiole 2-5 in.; petiolules ^1 in.; leaflets 

 elliptic-lanceolate (no lower leaves preserved). 



'tries 



very small, ovate, and as the calyx without minutely pubescent. Fruit 1 in. long and 

 Diore, the wings brown nearly glabrous with horizontal striations. 



DOUBTFtTL SPECIES. 



V ,1. OBTusA, Meissn, in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 251 founded on Wight's Herb. No. 

 «»4 is said to have drupes 5 lines long 4 lines thick, and therefore cannot belong to 

 ^^e genus Illigera as at present deflned. There is no example in the Kew Herbarium 

 ^i any Illigera from the Deccan Peninsula. 



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8. GYRO CARPUS, Jacq. 



A tall tree. Leaves aliemate, long petioled, large, entire or lobed, clustered 

 wards the ends of the branches. Flowers small, unisexual, very numerous; 

 ^sinstered in large branched cymes without bracts. Male flowers very numer- 

 ^^ ; calyx 4-7-partite ; petals ; stamens 4-7, inserted at the base of the 

 ^jx with as many alternate clavate glands, anthers dehiscing by valves ; 

 o^aiyO.^ Female or hermaphrodite flowers few; calyx-tube adherent to the 

 ^vary, limi) 2-partite, persistent, enlarging in fruit ; petals and stamens ; 

 "I^y l~celled ; style 0, stigma sessile ; ovule solitary pendulous from the apex 

 1 lir^ cell. Nut bony, crowned by the elongate spathulate coriaceous calyx- 

 ^^. Seed with convolute cotyledons. 



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J \ G. Jacquini, Boxh. Ilort. Bmg, 11, Cor. PL t. 1, FL Ind. i. 445; 

 ^^k' III. t. 850 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 19G ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 470. 

 g^.^iaticus, Willd. Siy. PL iv. 982 ; WalL Cat. 968 ; Mtq. FL Lid. Bat. i. pt. i. 

 J^^\I>C. Prodr. XV. pt. i. 248. G. americanus, Jacq. PL Amer. t. 178. G. 

 ^iiminatus, Meism. in DC. Prodr. xt. pt. i. 248. G. sphenopterus and G. 

 ^osus, a. Br. Prodr. 405. 



I>BCCAN Peniksula, alt. 0-1000 ft., frequent. Bengal, rare. Malay Peninsula, 

 ^J®°^—- DiSTHiB. The tropics of the whole world near the sea. 

 Wn^^^^ 60-80 ft. (Kurz). Leaves (of full-grown trees) 4-6 in. and as broad, 

 Ur^/ ^^^te, acuminate, entire, generally glabrous, those of young plants often very 

 7)J® deeply lobed and more or less pubescent. Peduncles 1-3 in., in the upper axils. 







