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which are the only ones known. It is therefore doubtful whether they 

 really belong to the former which, but for the pubescence on the uuder 

 surface of the leaves, might belong to iV. glabrum, Noronha. 



10. PoMBTiA, J. R. & G. Forst. 



Tall trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate ; leaflets subopposite, entire 

 or serrate (the lowest pair usually stipuliform). Ractvies simple or 

 panicled, elongated, slender. Flowers regular, polygamous, fascicled, 

 small, shorter than their pedicels. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-4-fid, valvate 

 in bud. Petals 5-4, small, usually without scales. Disc complete, 

 annular, lobed. Stamens 4-8, usually 6-4, inserted within the disc, at 

 length much exserted ; anthers small. Ovary 2-3-coccous and -celled ; 

 ovules solitary. Style elongated ; stigma obtuse, emarginate. Fruit 

 2-2-coccous; lobes subglobose or ellipsoidal, indehiscent, smooth. 

 Seeds exalbuminous, covered with a mucilaginous aril. — DisxuiB. Species 

 about 4, in Malaya Ceylon and Australasia. 



Calyx and leaflets quite glabrous, panicles sub- 

 glabrous ... ... ... ... 1. P. macrocarpa. 



Calyx always pubescent, leaflets glabrous or 

 pubescent ; inflorescence puberulous or pubes- 

 cent. 



Leaves 12 to 24 in. long ,.. ... 2. P. pinnata. 



Leaves 3 to 8 in. long. 



Leaflets oblanceolate, caudate-acuminate ; 

 petals oblong, much longer than the calyx ; 

 panicles much longer th;in the leaves ... 3. P. gracilis. 

 Leaflets oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, not 

 caudate-acuminate ; petals often absent, if 

 present rotund and not much exceeding the 

 calyx ; panicles not longer than the leaves 4. P. alnifolia. 

 1. PoMEiiA MACEOCAKPA, Kurz in Joui^n. As. Soc. Ben<ial, Vol. XLIV, 

 pt. II, (1876), p. 205. A glabrous tree ; haves 9 to 12 in. long, the 

 rachises glabrous and the petioles thickened at the base : leaflets coria- 

 ceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong, slightly unequal-sided, shortly acumi- 

 nate, the edges with remote glandular teeth, the base rounded ; both sur- 

 faces quite glabrous, the lower paler and with the reticulations distinct, 

 the midrib prominent on both ; main neives 15 to 18 pairs, spreading, 

 depressed on tlie upper, prominent on the lower surface ; lengtli 45 to 

 6 in., breadth 1-75 to 2 in.; petiolules *2 in., stout. Panicles axillary, 

 about as loni>- as the leaves, with several sub-glabrous lacemoid braii^ 

 dies bearing the flowers in cymules. Floivers 1 in, in diani., on glabrous 

 pedicels twice as long as themselves. Calyx glabrous, 5-lobed. Petal 

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