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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 live years the plants 

 grew to the height of twenty feet, with a long, perfectly 

 straight trank, 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 ripens its seed 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 g:ardeners 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. Bark 

 smooth, dark rust-coloured. Leaves entirely deciduous 

 during the cold season, they appear again with the flow- 

 ers in March. 



Leaves alternate, pinnate, with an odd one, from twelve 

 to 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- 

 es long and about one broad. Stipules none. Peti- 

 oles and petiolets round, a little scabrous, and somewhat 

 hairy. Panicles terminal, oval, erect ; the peduncles 



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