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PLATE 172. 
Kayra, Wall. Nat. Ord. Guttifere. 
Trees. eaves opposite, sub-coriaceous. Flowers hermaphrodite, either large and 
solitary, or small and paniculate. Sepals and petals 4 each, imbricate. Stamens numerous; 
filaments slender, free or connate at the base ; anthers small, sub-globose, 2-celled, with 
vertical dehiscence. Ovary 1-celled; style slender, stigma acutely 4-64 ; ovules 4, erect. 
Fruit subdrupaceous, fleshy, indehiscent, 1-4-seeded. Seeds thick, testa thin and crustaceous. 
Каува GRANDIS, King іп Journ. As. бос. Bengal, for 1890, рї. 2, р. 182. 
A glabrous tree, 40 to 80 feet high. Leaves large, thinly coriaceous, oblong to elliptic- 
oblong, sub-acute, the edges revolute (when dry), slightly narrowed towards the rounded 
or sub-acute base; both surfaces rather dull (when dry), the 20 to 30 pairs of main nerves 
sub-horizontal, prominent, the secondary nerves also prominent ; length 9 to 18 in., 
breadth 3 to 4-5 in.; petiole '4 to ‘75 in., smooth. Flowers globose in bud, pedicelled, 
in short few-flowered axillary cymes crowded in the axils of the leaves, rarely solitary, 
about 1 in. in diam. when expanded ; pedicels about “5 in. Sepals unequal, rotund, the 
outer concave, very coriaceous ; the inner thin, not larger than the outer. Pedals elliptic- 
oblong, acute, larger than the sepals ("5 in. long or more). Ripe fruit turbinate, 2 to 25 
in. in diam. and 1:95 in. long, the epicarp leathery, completely enveloped by the 
persistent, thickened, outer sepals. 
Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 178), Cantlay No. 2354. Perak, King's Collector, 
Nos. 3897, 7294, 7340. 
A very fine species ; at once distinguished by its large leaves and depressed turbinate fruit. The 
fruit, and probably the whole plant, abounds in yellow juice. According to M. Cantley the wood sinks 
in water. 
Prate 172. Kayea grandis, King. 1, flowering branch ; 2, ripe fruit; 3, section of ripe fruit : of natural size; 
4, outer sepal; 5, inner sepal; 6 and 7, petals; 8, stamens; 9, pistils: slightly enlarged; 104, stamen: much 
enlarged. 
PLATE 178. 
Kayra KuwsrLER, King in Journ, Аз. Soc. Bengal, for 1890, рі. 2, р. 182. 
A glabrous tree 30 to 50 feet high; the branchlets brownish, striate, not tuberculate 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, sub-undulate, the base much narrowed 
to the petiole ; both surfaces rather dull (when dry) with a few scattered opaque black dots , 
the lower pale, sub-glaucescent (when dry); length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 225 in. ; 
petiole '25 in. to “4 in., rugose ; nerves 12 to 20 pairs, unequal, slightly prominent; the 
lower horizontal, the upper slightly curving upwards. Flower solitary or in clusters of 3 or 
4, axillary or terminal, "75 to 1:5 in. diam., on a very short smooth pedicel, bracts at its 
base linear-subulate; bud globose, smooth. Sepals unequal as іп Ж. nervosa. Petals oblong- 
acuminate, “75 to 1 in. long. Ripe fruit ovoid, gradually narrowing into a short subulate 
apical beak, 1 to 1:25 in. long. 
Perak: King’s Collector, Nos. 3301, 6850. Penang, Curtis, No. 1419. Malacca, 
Maingay, No. 176. 
