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Varuna Ilindicè. 

 Ka-dhœk Burmanorum. 

 Habitat in Indiae locis montosis. 



Arbor mediocris ramulis glabris. Folia alterna, ternata. Foliota 

 petiolata, basi acuta, apice acuminatissima, glabra, costata, 

 venis minutissimè reticulata ; lateralia costis interioribus 

 basin versus abbreviatis semiovata ; terminale deltoideum. 

 Petiolus communis longus, glaber, supra planiusculus, non 

 stipulaceus ; partiales brevissimi, marginati. 



Cori/mbi indivisi, nunc latérales nudi, tunc terminales, et sœpè 

 foliis nonnullis inter Hores intermixtis comosi. Pedicelli 

 sparsi, unitlori, incrassati, glabri. Flores niagni, speciosi, 

 odoratissimi ; immaturi albidi ; maturi tlavi antheris pur- 

 pureis. 



In arbore hermaphrodita flores masculini pauci hermaphroditis 

 intermixti ; meram masculinam non vidi. 



In hermaphrodito flore apex pedicelli dilatatus in receptaculum 

 sublentiforme, concavum, e cujus niargine prodeunt calj cis 

 foliola quatuor, herbacea, elliptica, sessilia, acutiuscula. 

 Petala quatuor, calyce alterna, unguibus calyce longiori- 

 bus insidcntia, receptaculo intra calycem inserta, maxima, 

 nervosa, ovata, obtusa, vel subrotunda. Filamenta viginti 

 plura subulata, petalis longiora, basi stipitis germen suf- 

 fulcientis inserta, basi subunita (unde cum Morisoniâ sum- 

 ma aflinitas). Germen oblongum utrinque acutiusculum, 

 stipiti filamentis longiori insidens. Sti/lus brevissimus. 

 Stigma or bicu latum. 



Bacca pedicello longissimo insidens, globosa, nuda, magnitudine 

 pomi minoris rubra, cortice crasso molli tecta, pulpo molli 

 repleta. Receptacula duo carnosa, longitudinaliter parieti- 

 bus baccœ adnata. Semina pulpo tecta, subspiralia, Crus- 

 tacea. 



