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and unequally serrate-lobulate; the base in adult leaves subtruncate to subcordate, in 
the young leaves deeply cordate, the upper surface glabrous except the puberulous 
middle-nerve, the lower when young densely covered with flexuous hairs deciduous 
with age except on the nerves, the secondary nerves rather prominent beneath ; 
length 1—1:5 dm., breadth 1—1:25 dm., petiole 8—10 em. long; inflorescence a raceme- 
like, terminal or axillary rusty-tomentose panicle 8—10 cm. long; the branchlets 
cymose 2-flowered, about 9 mm. long; flowers 5 mm. in diam., on pedicels slightly 
longer than themselves ; sepals 5, oblong, subobtase, pubescent оп the nerves and 
edges; petals 5, oblanceolate-linear, glabrous except the pubescent claw; disk fleshy, 
with 8 large and 2 small quadrate lobes; stamens 8, inserted inside and between the 
lobes of the disk; anthers oblong, minutely warted; the filaments slightly flattened, 
glabrous; ovary rusty-tomentose, styles glabrous 2-fid; fruit З cm. long and the same 
in breadth at the apex, the wings obliquely and broadly rhomboid-triangular, the outer 
side of each the longest and the inner the shortest, slightly puberulous aad with bold 
forking veins, the nucule about 8 mm. in diam. 
Eastern HIMALAYA: Sikkim, Lachung, 11,000—12,500 ft.; Hooker! G. А. Сатти! 
Phalut, 11,500 %.; 0. А, Gammie! Jongri, 12,000 ft.; King’s Collectors? 
This species has been confused with A. pectinatum Wall. and A. caudatum Wall.; it 
is at ence distinguished from both by its paniculate inflorescence—that of A. caudatum 
being fasciculate, while that of A. pectinatum is a few-flowered, simple raceme. The wings 
of the samara of this are also rather broader than those of the other two. The disk of the 
flower in this species has 8 Jarge square lobes, but at two points which stand opposite 
to each other the disk has a fold in it and hidden in each of these folds there lies 
a small lobe. The disk is thus really 10-lobed, although at a superficial glance only 
8 lobes are visible. | 
Prate 24.—AÀ er Papilio King. 1, flowering branch, from Phalut; 2, fruiting twig, from Jongri,— 
both of natural size; 3, bracteole and bud; 4, flower; 5, flower, laid open; 6, stamens; 7, ovary ; 
8, samara with the faces of each nucule removed; 9, seed, not quite mature,—a// enlarged except 
fig. 8, which is of natural size. 
G. K. 
PLATE 25. 
95. SPONDIAS AXILLARIS Rozb. Hort, Beng. 34 (1814). 
Natural order Anacardiacez, 
An evergreen tree of the middle hill-forests in the Central and Eastern Himalaya, 
attaining a height of 30—35 metres, with a clear stem of 12—13 metres, 1—2 metres 
in diam, at 1:5 metres above level of soil; bark brown or reddish, peeling in long 
flakes; wood dark-pink, reddening on exposure, soft but durable; leaves alternate, 
nnequally pinnate, 25--4 dm. long, leaflets 13—17, opposite except the terminal, ovate- 
lanceolate, base cuneate on both sides or on lower side only and then rounded on the 
upper, apex acuminate to caudate, margin in leaves of young trees deeply gash-serrate, 
in half-grown trees beginning to bear flowers and fruit wide-serrate, in full-grown trees 
almost entire, 9—10 сш. long., 3—39:35 сш. wide, slightly puberulous on tho nerves 
beneath in young trees, glabrous on both surfaces when full-crown except for а few 
hairs in the angles of the main-nerves and midrib beneath, dark-green above, rather 
