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anthers ovate or oblong with distinct parallel cells. Ovary fleshy, 

 4-celled ; each cell 1-ovuled, ovules attached near their bases to the 

 axis ; style linear ; stigma shortly bifid. Fruit a drupe enclosed in the 

 accrescent calyx ; exocarp spongy-suberose or almost none ; endocarp 

 bony, thick, 4-celled. Seeds erect, oblong ; testa membranous ; 

 albumen ; cotyledons fleshy and oily ; radicle short, inferior. — Disteib. 

 Species 3, one in India and Malaya, one in Burma, the third in the 

 Philippine Islands. 



Tectona geandis, Linn. f. Suppl. 151 (1781). A large deciduous 

 tree ; branchlets quadrangular, channelled, stellately tomentose, as are 

 the young leaves, leaves beneath and inflorescence. Leaves coriaceo- 

 chartaceous ; ovate elliptic or obovate, acute or shortly acuminate at 

 apex, rounded acute or cu.neate often decurrent at base ; upper 

 surface stellate-tomentose when young, afterwards glabrescent, scabrous 

 and punctate with round whitish glands, lower with grey or tawny 

 stellate tomentum ; margins entire ; 1 to 2 ft. long, 6 in. to 1 ft. broad 

 (leaves of seedlings and coppice shoots often much larger) ; midrib very 

 stout, much raised beneath ; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, branched and 

 curving upwards, joined by numerous prominent parallel transverse 

 nervules ; petiole '5 to 1"5 in. long, very stout, rounded below, the 

 bases of opposite petioles joined by a prominent ridge. Panicles 1 to 

 3 ft. in length and breadth, much spreading, 2- to 3-chotomous ; ulti- 

 mate branches with a sessile fertile flower in the angle ; peduncles 

 quadrangular, to 3 in. long ; bracts lanceolate or spathulate, lower 

 ones leafy, in pairs at the forks ; pedicels very short ; flowers white. 

 Calyx in flower globose-campanulate, "125 in. long ; lobes 5 or 6, '05 in. 

 long, acute ; calyx in fruit ovoid, ventricose, reticulate, often 1 to 1-5 in. 

 in diam., with small teeth nearly closing the orifice. Corolla white, 

 glabrous, 5 to 6-lobed ; tube about -1 in. long ; limb spreading ; lobes sub- 

 equal. Ovary densely hairy. Drupe subglobose, -5 to '75 in. in diam., 

 indistinctly 4-lobed ; pericarp soft, with dense felted stellate or 

 branched hairs ; endocarp thick, bony. Seeds obovoid ; testa thin 

 cotyledons conform with the seed, fleshy ; radicle very small. Gaertn 

 Fruct. I. 275, t. 57 ; Eoxb. Cor. PI. I. 10, t. 6, and Fl. Ind. I. 600 

 Wall. Cat. 772 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 622 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb 

 Fl. 199 ; Bocq. Eev. Verb. 99, t. 10 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Madr. t. 250 

 Brandis For. Fl. 354, t. 44 ; Kurz, For. Fl. II. 259 ; Bl. Bijdr. 820 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 901 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 570 

 Cooke, Fl. Bomb. II. 424 ; Prain Beng. Plants, 828 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr 

 VII. 165; Briquet in Engl. & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 a, 167 

 t. 63. ''Theka," Eheede Hort. Mai. IV. 57, t. 27; Eumph. Herb 

 Amb. Ill, t. 18. 



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