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twelve pairs, opposite or alternate, unequally ovate. 
lanceolate, entire. ‘Panicles terminal. Berries oval. 
From Sumatra this tree has been introduced into the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta, where in five years the plants - 
grew to the height of twenty feet, with a long, perfectly 
straight trunk, covered with smooth brownish olive-co- 
loured back. The leaves when fresh and bruised emit a 
pleasant aromatic odour like that of the lemon leaf. The 
filaments spread out at the base, as in A. punctata ; the 
receptacle of the germ is also the same, but the style and 
stigma are here entire. Flowers and _— its ane at 
various periods in Bengal. 
9. A. punctata, R. 
Arboreous ; leaflets from twelve to fifteen pair, ovate. 
lanceolate, crenalate, dotted. Panicles terminal. Germs 
elevated on a receptacle, Berries round, glandular. — 
1 have only met with this tree in the Company’s Bota- 
nic garden at Calcutta, to which it was brought from Chit- 
tagong some years ago. The Chinese gardeners say it 
grows in China also. The trees seem full grown, and are 
about twelve feet high, rather thin of branches, with the 
lower-most spreading near the surface of the earth. Burk 
Smooth, dark rust-coloured. Leaves entirely deciduous 
‘during the cold season, doses appear agaia with ee flow- 
ers in March. gs 
- Leaves alternate, pinnate, with an odd one, facie weve 
40 eighteen inches long, Leaflets alternate, short-petiol- 
leted, from ten to twenty pairs, obliquely-oblong, the low- 
er half being lanceolate, and the upper falcate. Margins 
Crenulate; both sides of a dull green, and marked with 
glandular dots; size various, those about the middle 
are the largest, being generally from three to four inch- 
€s long and about one broad. ‘Stipules none,  Peti- 
oles and petiolets round, a little scabrous, and somewhat 
_ Panicles terminal, oval, erect 5 the pe 
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