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Ludia, ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 507 
LUDIA. Juss. 
Calyx many-parted, Corol none. Germ superior, one- 
superior, one-celled, many-seeded, attachment parietal, 
Berry few or many-seeded. Embryo centrifugal, and 
furnished with a perisperm. 
1. L. spinosa. R. 
Arboreous, Trunk and large branches armed with ra- 
mous spines. Leaves oblong, remotely obtuse-serrulate, 
smooth, three-nerved. 
A native of Sumatra; from thence plants were sent by 
the late Dr. Charles Campbell in 1804, to the Botanic 
garden at Calcutta, where they began to blossom in ih 
1812, and ripened their fruit in September. 
Compare with spina spinarum. Rumph. Amb.7, p. 20, 
#.19. f- 1. I suspect they may be the same, and more so 
as his tree is a native of Java, and mine of Sumatra, 
neighbouring Islands. 
Trunk erect in trees eight years old, fully as thick as 
a man’s leg and with the larger branches dreadfully 
armed with long, strong, straight, compound spines, as 
in Flacoutia catgphracta. Young shoots smooth and 
coloured, whole height of those young trees from fifteen 
to twenty feet. + Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-pe- 
tioléd, oblong, yery remotely and obtusely serrulate, ob- 
inate, having both sides smooth, and the one 
i jle-nerved, from four to six inches long, 
tp three broad, while young beautifully 
coloured. Pei io) es short, channelled. Stipules minute, 
triangular. Ragemes axillary, solitary, simple, shorter 
than the leaxeds few-flowered, Flowers smail; pale 
yellow, pedicellg ed ny of them male i 
Bractes small, any s 
cel, and some row 
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