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pubescent, tapering to {һе stout, subglabrous style; stigma slightly exserted, cylindric 
with a narrow basal annulus; ripe fruit broadly pyriform, the apex depressed, 8 cm. 
long and 6:5 em. in diam., rugulose when young, glabrous and smooth when adult, the 
pericarp crustaceous, 4 mm. thick; seeds 3-angled, the posterior surface concave, 3 cm. 
long. 
EASTERN HIMALAYA: Sikkim, on the banks of the Ryang and Tista; King! 0۸0۰ 
Prazer ! 
The nearest ally of this species is D. binectariferrum Bedd., from which it differs 
conspicuously in its smaller flowers, different disk, and minutely reticulated leaflets. 
Рглте 22.—Dysoxylum reticulatum Кіл. 1, flowering twig, from Ryang; 2, fruiting twig, from 
Tista,—both of natural size; 3, bud; 4, opened flower; 5, staminal tube; 6, disk; 7, anthers; 8, ovary,— 
ай enlarged; 9, dehiseing capsule; 10, seed, — both of natural size. 
G. K. 
PLATE 23. 
23, LEPIDOPETALUM JackiANUM Radlk, т Siizb. Bayer. Acad. ix. 623 (1879). 
Natural order Ѕаріпдасег. 
A small tree with brittle wood; young branches puberulous, soon becoming glabrous ; 
leaves 1:5—3 dm. long, leaflets 2—10, subopposite, oblong ог ovate-oblong, sub- 
acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate, both surfaces shining, quite glabrous and finely 
reticulate; main-nerves 7—8 pairs, bold beneath, spreading; length 8—19:5 cm., width 
8—5 cm.; petiolules 4 mm. long; racemes under 5 cm. long; flower-buds oval, pointed ; 
sepals ovate-lanceolate, green; petals white, minute, cordate, acute, each with a large 
scale connate to its margins ; stamens short, hypogynous, 8, filaments glabrous short, 
anthers oblong hirsute; ovary 2-celled; capsule not lobed, coriaceons, compressed, obovate, 
glabrous reddish-brown outside, hirsute bright scarlet within, minutely apiculate, 3 em. 
long and about 2 cm. wide, pedicel 5 mm. long; seed solitary, black, covered with 
mucilage amd embraced as to the lower third by а pink, cup-shaped, thick, fleshy 
arillus. Prain, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. (1891) 167; King, Journ. As. Soc. Deng. lxv. 
2. 449 (1896). Connarus? Jackianus Wall. Cat. 8552 (1847). Cupania Jackiana Hiern in 
Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. i, 678 (1875). : 
Кісовавв: Car Nicobar; Jack! Prain! Kamorta; Kurz! Batti Мау; 70 
Рлтв 23.—Lepidspetalum Jackianum Radlk. 1, fruiting branch from the Nicobars ; 2, seed,— 
both of natural size; 3, bud; 4, opened flower; 5, calyx and corolla, laid open; 6, stamens ¿nd 
ovary, the perianth removed; 7, sepal; 8, petal; 9, vertical section of petal; 10, stamen; 11, vertical 
section of ovary, ~all somewhat enlarged. 
ie D, Р, 
PLATE 24. 
21. Acer Parttio King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxv. 9, 115 (1896). 
Natural order Sapindaces, | 0ص0‎ | 
А small trce; the young branches at first rusty-tomentose, afterwards glabrous 
and with cincreous exfoliating bark; eaves simple, 5-lobed, the lobes caudate-acuminate — 
Ann, Вот, Bor, Garp, Сале. Von, ІХ, 
