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7. Ii. Flos-Xleg*inae, -Re/s Ofo. v. p. 25; petiole distinct usually ^ in., 



'^lyx covered with hard white (soznetimes ferruginous) tomentum, ribs 12- 14- 

 flat or round not acute on the back, apex of the ovary glabrous. Kurz For. 

 Fl. I 524. L. Reginse, Eoxb, Cor. PL t. 65 ; Hort. Benff, 38 ; FL Ind. ii. 505 ; 

 DC. Pi^odr. iii. 93 ; Wall Cat 21 14 ; TF. ^' A, Frodr. 308 ; WigJit Ic. t. 413 ; 

 mume Mm, Bot. ii. t. 41 ; Miq. FL Lid. Bat, i. pt. i. 623 : Bedd. FL Si/lv. t. 

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Cat 2114. 



98 ; Brand. For. FL 240. 

 Adambea glabra, Lamk. Diet. 39. 



L. ruacrocarpa, WalL 

 Rheede Hiyi't. MaL iv. t. 20, 21. 



DisTRiB. Malaya and China, 



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-^ ^From Assam to Malacca, abundant. Hills of the Deccan Pexixsula, common; 

 and in Cevlox. In North-West India only cultivated ?.- 

 in many cases perhaps cultivated. 



A tree, reaching 50-60 ft., sometimes when old having on its trunk and larger 

 branches a few strong straight spines 1-3 in. (See Ham. in Tran-'^. Livn. Sog. xvii. 

 lu.) Zmr^?,"? 4-8 in., from broad-elliptic obtuse to long-lanceolate. Pa?zz<;^^ large, 

 lower branches often 6 in., curved, ascending, flowers scattered. Pt^^a/s commonly 

 * m. (sometimes more), mauve, margins erose-nndulate, hardly fimhriate. Calyx in 

 iruit thiclcened, woody; lobes triangular spreading. Fruit large, sometimes reaching 

 ^A^^' by 1 in. (Wallich reduced his L. macrocarpa number 913 to L. Flos-Iiegin(B, 

 *ina also sank his herbarium names L. ollonga and L. gl aucescens .) 

 , Var. angusta, Wall. Cat. 2113 ; leaves 'lo (excl. petiole) by 6 in. ; fruit If in., 

 niore acute at the apex. Irrawaddy, Wallich. Rangoon; McClelland.— Th\& may 

 possibly be the plant which Mr. Kurz (For. FL i. 524) means to preserve as the 

 ?P®^\^s L. macrocarpa. Not merely the leaves on young plants but the leaves on 

 Wallichs specimens. near the panicle are very large. ^ 



> _ 8. Ii. hypoleuca, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, pt. ii. 307 ; For. FL i. 

 ^-;3 ; leaves shortly petioled sometimes glaucous white beneath, calyx covered 

 ■'^^ith hard \yhite tomeulum, ribs 12 acute. 



Andamans, Kurz. 



Tree 60-70 ft. Leaves 6-8 in., fi'om ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or 

 'Scarcely acute, attenuate or obtuse at the base. Panicle large, 1 ft. long, narrow- 

 ^longHte, white, puT)eru]ons. Petals i in., oblong, lilac, undulate on the margin 

 ■ ]^^^^)' Capsule f in. (Kurz\ oblong, mucronate, woody. Calyx much more acutely 

 "hbed than that of L. Flos-Reginee, but the teeth of the alternate rits are very ob- 

 fcurely excurrent in Mr. Kurz s specimens. 



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|DUn»fA to SiKQAPORE ; frequent. - 

 _ . Iree 30 ft. Leaves 5-7 in., oblong, acute, subsessile, rounded at the base. Pa- 

 «^''c largo, lower branches often 6 in., ascending, curved, with rich brown stellate 

 ^ooily tomentum. Calgx nearly equally 12-ribbed accessory teeth obsolete or obscure, 

 ^""i*- smaller than in L. Flos-Reginai, at first of a more rosy colour but withering to 

 ^^^■purple. Fruit \ by i in.; calyx-teeth spreading, small not woody. 



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. ^Au. ciispidMta, Wall. Cat. 2il6 (sp.) ; accessory teeth of the calyx in the bud pro- 

 inent appearing as 6 cusps at the summits of the alternate ribs.— Tavoy, Amherst, 



^f^^JcA, who marks the species as L.fioribnnda prox. It differs from the type in no 



^^^t except the cusps mentioned. 



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