Anogeissus.'] LVIII. COMBEETACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 451 



VAB 1. typica ; leaves usually broad-lanceolate fulvous beneath, peduncles with 

 obovate bracts often leaflike large, fruit very broadly winged (twice as broad as high) 

 with a deflexed pubescent beak much longer than the nucleus. Andersonia acuminata, 

 Herb. Eottl. 



The northern edge of the DBCCAN ascending to 3000 ft. BrNDELKUND, Edgeworth. 

 Mountains above the Circars; Roxburgh. GODAVERY forests; Brandis. North- 

 west India, Boyle. 



A tree, sometimes attaining 60 ft. ; . trunk rarely straight, when young armed 

 with long spines (Kurz). Leaves commonly 2 by 1 in., upper becoming smaller, 

 often obovate, passing into bracts ; petiole less than in. Peduncles and neck of 

 ovary rusty-tomentose. 



VAR. 2. lanceolata, Wall. Cat. 4014 F; leaves usually narrow-lanceolate grey 

 beneath, bracteoles on the peduncles small linear very deciduous, fruit winged sub- 

 quadrate with an erect beak shorter than the nucleus. Andersonia lanceolata, Herb. 

 Eottl. 



PEGU, TENASSERIM and KOOKIE-LAND. 



An erect elegant tree 60-100 ft. high. Leaves commonly 2 by ^ in., upper long- 

 lanceolate ; petiole scarcely any. Peduncles and neck of ovary with dense rusty 

 spreading hairs. Fruits sometimes in. broad. 



3. A. phillyreaefolia, Heurck $ Muell Arg. Obs. Sot. 209 ; leaves nar- 

 rowly lanceolate narrowed upwards obtuse, peduncles short rarely divided, 

 heads and fruit small, beak about as long as the nucleus. Wall. Cat. 8557. 



PROME; Wallich. 



Apparently a shrub or small tree. Leaves l in., subsessile, narrowed at base, 

 glabrous or silky beneath. Peduiicles -f in., solitary or clustered, rusty-pubescent, 

 much less shaggy than in A. acuminata var. lanceolata. Fruits about ^ in. broad. 

 Kurz, in Journ. As. Soc. 1874, pt. ii. 188, reduces this to A. acuminata; but from the 

 example he has communicated to Kew it appears that his A. phillyre&folia is not 

 the plant of Heurck $ Muell. but A. acuminata var. 2 above. The present species 

 however may prove only a more extreme form of A. acuminata. 



4. A. pendula, Edgw. Cat. PL Banda,Tp. 47; leaves elliptic or obovate 

 acute or obtuse always narrowed at "base, peduncles solitary simple, fruit sub- 

 quadrate ultimately glabrous, beak much less than half the height of the 

 nucleus. Brand. For. Fl. 229. A. myrtifolia, Wall. Cat. 4017; Royle III. 

 p. 209. 



BUNDELKUND ; Edgeworth. NORTH- WEST INDIA ; Eoyle. Common in EAJPUTANA ; 

 Brandis. DEKSA ; Stocks. 



A gregarious bush or small tree. Leaves f-1 in., usually glabrous, sometimes 

 silky beneath. Peduncles sometimes with an elliptic leaflike bract. A species which 

 may be distinguished at once by its small leaves. 



4. XiUMNXTZERA, Willd. 



Large glabrous shrubs or small trees, growing in tropical salt marshes along- 

 with Mangroves and closely resembling them in habit. Leaves clustered towards 

 the ends of the branches, alternate, thickly leathery,' subsessile, narrow-obovate, 

 entire or scarcely crenate. Flowers in racemes. Calyx-tube with two adnate 

 bracteoles near the base, oblong, narrowed at both ends, produced above the ovary; 

 lobes 5 persistent. Petals 5, oblong. Stamens 10 in two series, or fewer. Ovary 

 inferior, 1-celled ; style subulate, simple ; ovules 2-5 pendulous from the top of 

 the cell. Fruit woody, elliptic- oblong, -1 in. including the calyx-limb, lon- 

 gitudinally striate or nearly smooth. Seed 1 ; cotyledons convolute. DISTRIB. 

 Species 2 ; on the shores of the tropics of the Old World, and of Polynesia. 



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