*?. ROSACJEJE. [1. Ptoeum. 



1. Pygeum, G»rtn, 



Trees or shrubs 'with simple entire or toothed leaves 

 with small fugagious stipules and sometimes a pair of flat, 

 circular glands at the base below. Fls. small racemose. 

 Calyx-tube campnnulate or cupular. 5-6-toothed. Petals 

 minute villous. St. 15-40. Carpel 1. Fr. a transversely- 

 oblong obscurely didymous drupe with usually scanty 

 flesh. 



1. P. acuminatum, Colebr. 



A small evergreen tree with coriaceous elliptic or oblong 

 acute or cuspidate leaves 4" by 1£" to 6" by 3", yellowish- 

 green flowers and drupes §" diam. 



Along streams in the most shady valleys of the Saranda forests, 

 e.g., Rangan-gara, very rare. Fls. Aug. Fr. April-June. 



Twigs brown. L. with rounded base or acute on the petiole which iB 

 \" long and grooved above. Sec. nerves 6-8 prs. impressed above. Glands 

 present or not (on the same tree). Racemes about 2-5''. Pedicels very 

 short. Calyx and corolla pubescent. 



2. P. lucidum, And. (P. Andersoni, Hook /.) 



A rig- id shrub somewhat resembling a Symplocos, quite 

 glabrous except the margins of the petals. L. 2|-3|" by 1" 

 coriaceous oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate with 

 sub-acute or obtuse base crenate-serraie eglandular (except 

 the serratures) with 8-12 prs. of nearly straight ascending sec. 

 nerves. Petiole §". Racemes 1" dense-fld. Pedicels very short. 

 Calyx-tube hemispheric glabrous within, lobes broadly ovate, 

 obtuse. Petals twice the calyx-lobes, ell. with densely ciliate 

 margins. St. 15 with transversely oblong 2-celled anthers. 

 Ovary in the herb, specimen minute imperfect. 



This is a very interesting plant inasmuch as nobody seems to have 

 found it except Andersi.n, on the summit of Parasnath. And he only 

 found a solitary tree on the northern side of the central peak. 



Fl. and renews its leaves in November. 

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