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VI. ANONACE^. 



[Polyalthia. 



13. POLYALTHIA, Blume. 



Trees or occasionally shrubs. Leaves usually coriaceous. Sepals 

 3, valvate or sub-imbricate. Petals 6 in. 2 series, ovate to 

 linear, flat, or the inner ones slightly vaulted. Torus convex. 

 Stamens cuneate; anther-cells extrorse. Pistils indefinite; ovules 

 I to 5, basal and erect, or sub-basal and ascending. Carpels 

 i-seeded, drupaceous. Species 50, tropical Asia, a few in Africa 

 and Australasia. 



[a) Flowers on tubercles on the stem. Petals narrow 



lanceolate to linear. 

 Flowers solitary, 3 in. long, glabrous; fruit 1-5 in. 



long 



Flowers several, 2 in. long, pubescent ; fruit i in. 



long 



Flowers, petals very narrow, linear, crowded on 



trunk; fruit red, tomentose 



[b) Flowers mostly on branches {some also on stem- 



tubercles). 

 Petals narrow lanceolate about 2 in. long. 



Leaves thin not glaucous. Trees nearly glabrous 

 Flowers flesh colour or brown 

 Flowers yellow or orange; pedicels 1-50 



long 



Pedicels '5 in. long; flowers smaller 

 Branches and fruit large, short pedicelled 

 red, hairy ..... 



Leaves stiff, rigid glaucous beneath 



Dwarf shrub, leaves broad . 

 Petals very narrow, linear, about 2-50 in. Ion 

 not spreading .... 



Petals very narrow, linear, about -5 in. Ion 

 spreading ..... 



Petals very small, under -5 in. long, lanceolate; 

 leaves glaucous ..... 



Flowers very small, hardly -5 in. wide. 



Leaves narrow linear acuminate; fruit and 

 flowers glabrous ..... 



Leaves lanceolate, narrow ; fruit glabrous 

 Leaves lanceolate-acuminate; petals lance- 

 olate, hairy ...... 



Leaves lanceolate ; petals oblong ovate. 



Petals hairy ; fruit hairy .... 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, shortly narrowed at 

 base ....... 



Leaves oblong, base minutely cordate 



(c) Flowers i in. long in clusters on the branches ; 



branches hairy. 

 Leaves bullate, 12 to 14 in. long; shrub 

 Leaves lanceolate 6 in. long, not bullate, hairy 



beneath ...... 



(d) Floivers rather or quite large, on the boughs. 

 Petals broad, thin-textured, on the boughs. 



Flowers 4 in. across (adult) ; leaves when young 

 hairy ....... 



(1) P. Wrayi 



(2) P. desmantha 



(3) P. stenopetala 



(4) P. Beccarii 



(5) P. cauliflora 



(6) P. pycnantha 



(7) P. cinnamomea 



(8) P. sumatrana 



(9) P. pumila 



(10) P. anguslissima 



(11) P. aster iella 

 {12) P. hypoleuca 



(13) P. dumosa 



(14) P. parviflora 



(15) P. hirta 



(16) P. montana 



(17) P. Kunstleri 



(18) P. obliqua 



(19) P. buUata 



(20) P. velutinosa 



(21) P. Scortechinii 



