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2. C- arborea, Rotb. Cor. Pi iii. 14, t. 218 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 638 ; a tree, leaves 



•olovate or oblong, spikes about 3-flowered, petals obtuse. DC. Prodr. iii. 295 ; 



Wall Cat. 3640; W. ^ A. Prodr. 334; Wight. lU. 99, 100; Dah. fy Gibs. 



Boffib. Fl 95 ; Bedd. Fl Sylv. t. 205 : Brand. For. Fl 236 ; Kurz For. Fl i. 



499; Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. I 97.—Bheede HoH. Mai. iii. 36. 



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Throughout India, alt. O-4O00 ft. ; from the Himalaya to Travancore and Tenas- 

 fierim : no example from Ceylon. 



Attaining 30-60 ft. Leaves 12 by 6 in., oblong or orbicular, obtuse or shortly 

 ruminate, narrowed at the base, crenate-denticulate, glabrous ; petiole 0-1 in. Spikes 

 3-8 in. ; flowers usually few, sessile ; bracts 3, unequal. Calyx total length f-1 in,, 

 terete, campanulate, obscurely pubescent; lobes ovate, obtuse. Petals If in., white, 

 ■eUiptic. ^ Filaments red. Ovules in two rows in each cell of the ovary {Kurz). Fruit 

 2j by 2 in., globose, surmounted by an enlarged mouth having a depressed pit at the 

 vertex within the calyx-teeth. Seeds i-\ in., ellipsoid. — Dissepiments of the fruit 

 permanent, at least sometimes. C. orbiculata, Miers I c. i. 98 1. 16, fig. 6-8 (founded 

 on Griffith's example Kew Distrib. No. 2428 collected at Mergui) has the ovary slightly 

 yerrucose, apparently from the attack of some insect. 



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 •ges many-flowered, petals acute white. WaU. Cat. 3639 ; Wight le. t. 147, 

 ^66 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 500 ; Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 97, t. 16, 

 fig. 9-15. 



■ Mountains of CHiTTAooNa, Roxburgh. 



; ^ This is very doubtfully separable from the preceding species : Eoxburgh says that 

 ^ each cell of the ovary the ovules are in six rows (not in two as in C. arborea). Mr. 

 Kurz does not appear to have seen the tree, and closely follows Roxburgh. Neither 

 CoL Beddome nor C. B. Clarke have ever distinguished C. spherica alive. Mr. Miers 

 « set aside in the herbarium (as C. sph^rica) examples collected as C. arborea by 

 Wallich, Eottler, Ritchie and J. D. H., so that none of these could have distinguished 

 the tree in the field. 



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 branous, crenulate, pinnate-nerved, without dots. Racemes short, terminal ; 

 "kT^^ greenish-yellow or white. Cahjx-tube turbinate, scarcely produced 

 ?Dove the ovary ; lobes 4, imbricate. Petals 4, imbricate. Stamem very many, 

 ^ several series, slightly connate at the base, innermost without anthers. 

 Ovary inferior, a-4-celled, crowned by an annular disc ; style lono;, simple. 

 Wia small ; ovules many in each cell. . . „ . 



. ^"Celled, fibrous, ovoid, crowned bv the calyx. Seeds several, ellipsoid, Ij-ing 

 "^ Pylp ; albumen ; embrvo horseshoe-shaped, cotyledons short.— Distbib. 

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oDovate-oblong, flowers greenish on yerv sbort thick pedicels. 



j^«. She. ser. ii. Bot. i. 94 ; Kurz For. 'Fl. I 500. P. littoralis, Mt 



?^ valida, Blume Biid. lOOG. Gustavia valida, DC. Prodr. iii, 290 ; Hassk. 



»n Flora, 1844, 595. ' 



Andamans, in the evergreen coast-forests ; Kurz. 



An evergreen tree 40-60 ft. Leaves 7 by 3^ in., obtuse or scarcely acute, much 

 ^^T^ed at the base, denticulate ; petiole |-4 m. Raceme short, terminal ; flowers 

 j^*^^^"8i2ed. Calyx'tube ^ in., top-shaped, obsoletely 8-angled ; segments J in., ovate, 

 .nnded. P/?/^/fi j jj^^^ obtuse, reflexed. Filaments 1^ in., purple.— (Description 



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