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Stamens 60-80. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, the style much longer than the 

 stamens, the stigma dilated. Drupe cylindric, with a pointed apex and 

 rounded base, glabrous, 1-1-25 in. long ; pericarp thin, woody, smooth 

 inside. Seed minutely hairy. Kook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 316. Cerasas f 

 martahanica, Wall. Cat. 4902. 



Andaman Islands; Kurz, King's Collectors. Distrib. Burma. 



Var. Scortechinii, King, bases of leaves rounded, main nerves 9-12 

 pairs ; racemes less than half the length of the leaves ; flowers '25 in. 

 in diam. ; stamens 30-40, fruit about '6 in. long. 



Perak ; Scortechini 1782 ; King's Collector 5638. 

 This variety may possibly prove to be a distinct species. Althoagh differing 

 from the Andamanese and Burmese specimens in the points noted above, the Perak 

 epecimens have the same general fades. 



4. Ptgeum, Gsertn. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, usually quite entire ; 

 stipules minute, fugacious, (large and persistent in one species) basal 

 glands 2 or 0. Flowers small, racemose or paniculate, sometimes 

 unisexual by want of the ovary. Calyx-tuhe obconic urceolate or cam- 

 panulate, deciduous ; limb 5-15-toothed, often unequally. Petals minute, 

 5-6 in the 5-6-toothed calyx, in the 10-15-toothed, villous or tomen- 

 tose, rarely glabrous, often undistinguishable from the calyx-lobes. 

 Stamens 10-50, in one or more series at the orifice of the calyx-tube ; 

 filaments slender, incurved ; anthers small. Carpel 1, basal in the 

 calyx-tube, ovoid or subglobose ; style terminal, slender, exserted from 

 the bud, stigma capitate ; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous. Fruit a trans- 

 versely oblong, obscurely didymous, rarely subglobose drupe ; pericarp 

 thin, dry or juicy. Cotyledons very thick, hemispheric ; radicle minute, 

 superior. Distrib. Species about 30, tropical Asiatic and one African. 



Edges of leaves entire : — 



Stipules large and persistent ... ... ... 1. P. stipulaceum. 



Stipules small and fugaceous : — 



Flowers -5 in. in diam. ... ... ... 2. P. grandijlorum. 



Flowers much less than '5 in. in diam. : — 

 Ovary glabrous : — 

 Racemes not much longer than the petioles : — 

 Leaves 4 or 5 in. long and 2 in. broad, lower 



surface puberulons ; main nerves 7 pairs ... 3. P. intermedium. 



Leaves 15-2 in. long and '65-11 in. broad, 

 lower surface deciduonsly pubescent and rugulose 

 beneath ; main nerves 4-6 pairs ... ... 4. P. Maingayi, 



Leaves 3-35 in. long, 1-1*4 in. broad, glabrous 

 beneath and subglaucous ; main nerves 4 or 5 

 pairs ... ... ... ... 5. P. lanceolaium. 



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