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short, ovate-oblong, or base cordate. Ovary 2- or 4-, rarely 3- or 5- celled ; 

 style deciduous, stigma capitate ; ovules solitary or 2 collateral in eacb 

 cell. Berry large, sub-globose, 1-5-celled, 1-5-seeded, rind thick. Seeds 

 oblong; cotyledons flesby, plano-convex. — Distrib. — Species about 10, 

 chiefly tropical Asiatic. 



Armed; leaves 1"25 to 25 in. long ... 1. A. monnphylla. 



Unarmed; leaves 4 to 6 in. long ... ... 2. A. Roxburghiana. 



1. Atalantia monophylla, Correa Ann. du Mus. VI, 383. A large 

 shrub or small tree : the young branches sometimes pubescent at the 

 very tip, usually more or less armed with short, solitary, straight, axillary 

 spines. Leaves lanceolate, oblong-ovate, ovate or elliptic ; the apex 

 obtuse, often notched, the edges entire, the base slightly cuneate ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, the nerves and reticulations rather distinct vsrhen 

 dry; length 1'25 to 25 in., breadth '6 to 1*2 in.; petiole "2 to '3 in. 

 pubei'ulous. Flotvers "35 to '5 in. in diam., in lax axillary racemes or 

 cymes, the pedicels puberulous, slender, longer than the flowers ; buds 

 sub-globose or obovate. Calyx irregularly lobed, glabrous, the edges 

 scai-ious. Petals oblong, obtuse, "3 to '4 in. long. Stamens 8, or fewer ; 

 the filaments broad and united into a tube, their apices free and fili- 

 form, the anthers ovate. Ovary sessile, on a small annular disc. Berries 

 ovoid at first, globose when ripe, '6 to '8 in. in diam. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. I, 511: Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Ft. 2, p. 519; Kurz For. Flora 

 Burmah I, 195 : DC. Prod, I, 535; W. and A. Prodr. 91 ; Wight 111. I, 

 108; Wall. Cat. 6353; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. II, 24: 

 Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 28. A. fiorihunda, Wight, Ic. t, 1611. A. 

 platistigtna, Wight 111. I, 108. Limonia rtionophylla, Linn. ; Roxb Cor. 

 PI. I, t. 82 ; Fl. Ind. II, 378. Turraea virens, Hellen. in Act. Holm. 

 1788, t. 10, f. I, (not of Linn.). TricUlia spinosa, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. 

 I, 623. Rheede Hort. Mai. IV, t. 12; Burin. Fl. Zeyl. t. 65, f. I. 



Penang, Kedab, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Distkib. — British 

 India, in Sylhet, and in the Peninsula, Ceylon. 



The plant named A. macrophylla by Kurz (For. Fl. Burmah I, 195), 

 of which there are excellent specimens in the Calcutta Herbarium, seems 

 to be only a luxuriant form of this. I can find no characters in which 

 it difEers, except size. 



2. Atlantia Roxburghiana, Hook. fil. (not of Oliver), Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 613. A glabrous shrub or small tree : young branches slender, spine- 

 less. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, tapering to 

 each end, the apex sub-acute or shortly acuminate ; the base cuneate, 

 rarely rounded ; main nerves 10 to 14 paii's, spreading, slightly promi- 

 nent underneath when dry; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1'75 to 225 in., 

 petiole "3 in. Haciiinee short, few-flowered, axillary. Flowert nearly 5 



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