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2. OAREYA ARBOREA, Roxb. Pl. Согот. iii. p. 14, tab. 218; Fl. Ind. iii. p. 638; Ham. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 97; Rheede, Hort. Malab. iii. p. 35, tab. 36; DC. Prodr. iii. 
295; W. & A. Prodr. i. 334; Wight, Illustr. p. 20, tab. 99, 100; Miq. Fl. Ned. 
Ind. i. 494: Careya spherica, Wight, in parte (non Roxb.), Icon. tab. 556. In 
Ind. Orient.: v. pl. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. E. Ind. (Kónig), ibidem (Buchanan); in 
herb. Hook. Е. Ind. (Carey), Sikkim (Hook. et Th.), Afghanistan ad Kala Nudde 
(Ritchie 362). 
A tree, sometimes of immense size, inhabiting the valleys in Orissa and other provinces 
of India, with many spreading branches suleately angular, often covered with the cica- 
trices of fallen leaves. The broadly ovate leaves are suddenly constricted at the apex by 
a sharp point, are cuneate below the middle, the margins with small close teeth, sub- 
flaccid, pale green and opaque above, with about 16 pairs of slender prominulent nerves 
and a flat midrib, paler beneath, with straw-coloured prominent nerves; they are 7-8 
in. long, 33-44 in. broad, on a channelled margined petiole 2-3 lines long. The raceme 
is terminal, 6-8 in. long, bearing about 8 flowers at the extremity of its stout rachis, 
which are almost sessile, with 3 bracts at their base; the calyx is tubular, 10 lines long, 
5 lines broad, its margin being divided into 4 valvate acute lobes or sepals 3 lines long ; 
the petals are 12-15 lines long, 5 lines broad, with their margins laterally turned back ; 
the stamens are of various lengths, in many series, the longer and shorter series barren, 
the intermediate series antheriferous ; they are all agglutinated at their base into an 
erect tube, seated on the outer margin of the disk, and to which the claws of the petals 
are also affixed. The globular drupe is 2 in. in diam., with a smooth fleshy fibrous peri- 
carp 1 line thick; seeds ovate or oblong, compressed, scattered through a rather solid 
pulp. The fetid wood is useful, of a reddish colour, with a grain not so close nor so 
hard as mahogany ; and strong ropes are made from the fibres of its bark. 
З. CAREYA ярнжвтса, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 336; Wight, Icon. (ex Roxb.), tab. 147 (non 
| 556); Мід. Fl. Ned. Ind. i. 494. In Malacca, Khasya, et Sikkim: v. s. in herb. 
Hook. Chittagong (Wall. Cat. 3640), Kumaon (Strachey), Sikkim (Hook. et Th.) 
Mergui (Griffith). 
A tree 30 feet high, with a trunk 12 feet long, 8 in. in diam., growing beyond the 
limits of the Indian peninsula. It yields a bark with strong fibres. It differs from 
C. arborea in its larger, broader, more rounded leaves, in its much longer racemes with 
a thicker rachis, in its more numerous, crowded, larger sessile flowers, bibracteolated at 
their base. Its branches have a smooth ashy bark, with leaves approximated on their 
summits. Leaves oblong-ovate, broad, rounded towards the apex, with a short abrupt 
acumen, suddenly and broadly cuneated towards the base, the margins being minutely 
crenulate-dentate ; they are subcoriaceous, lucid aboye, with about 20 pairs of patently 
divaricated nerves conjoined near the margin; they are 9-12 in. long, 43-67 in. broad, 
on a petiole 4-6 lines long. The racemes are terminal, several inches long, bearing near 
their summit 6-12 approximated sessile flowers, each supported by 3 basal rounded 
bractlets 3 lines long and broad; the ovary, 5 lines long, is surmounted by 4 nearly 
