278 XLVI. EOSACE.E [Parinarium 



1. PARINARIUM, Juss. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 308. 



Evergreen trees ; 1. simple, entire, alternate. Fl. white or pink, bisexual, 

 slightly zygomorphic, in panicles or corymbose racemes, 2 or 3 bracts at the 

 base of each fl. Calyx deciduous, tube tomentose, generally hairy inside, seg- 

 ments 5, thick, often unequal. Stamens 6-30, mostly unilateral, filaments as 

 as a rule connate at base. Carpel one, 2-celled, hairy, more or less adnate to 

 one side of calyx-tube, one erect ovule in each cell. Species 50, tropics of both 

 hemispheres. 



A. Western species. 



1. P. indicum, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 109; Fl. Sylv. t. 191. 



A middle-sized tree ; 1. glabrous 5-9 x 2-3 in., petiole \— | in., racemes com- 

 pound, tomentose, axillary and terminal. Fl. white, pedicels very short, calyx- 

 tube ^ in. long, a ring of minute "teeth inside at the mouth, fertile stamens 

 12-15, style basal, longer than stamens. 



Carcoor ghat, Malabar 2,000-3,000 ft. 2. P. travancorieum, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 189. 

 Evergreen forests in the Travancore hills. Shoots and racemes silky, 1. lanceolate, long 

 silky hairs along midrib beneath, 4-5 x 1-li in. 



B. Eastern species. 



3. P. Griffithianum, Benth., Tenasserim or Andamans, Malay Peninsula. A large tree, 1. 

 coriaceous, glabrous, shining, glands at the base of midrib on the upper surface. PI. in 

 large corymbose or pyramidal panicles. Fr. narrowly ellipsoid, not speckled, lined inside 

 with rufous hairs. 4. P. costatum, Blume, Malay Peninsula, possibly in Tenasserim, 



1. thinly coriaceous shortly and obtusely acuminate, without glands, thin tawny 

 pubescence beneath. Fl. in large, lax, tawny tomentose, terminal and axillary panicles, 

 calyx-tube tubular-campanulate, a ring of long deflexed hairs inside in the nioutb. 

 Fr. oblong with scaly patches, lined inside with rufous wool. 5. P. Helferi, Hook, f., on 

 banks of Tenasserim river, a tall tree, young shoots clothed with soft bright brown 

 tomentum, 1. membranous white and downy beneath, fl. minute, in small softly 

 tomentose panicles. 



Parastemon urophyllum, A. DC. ISficobars, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, a 

 tall tree, branches slender pendulous, 1. glabrous, acuminate, 2-4 in., underside with 

 numerous minute scales. Fl. minute, polygamous, in slender axillary racemes, stamens 



2, unilateral, on a raised ring at the mouth of calyx. • Fr. oblong-ellipsoid, \ in. long, 

 seed one, erect. 



2. PRUNUS, Linn. : Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 312. 



Shrubs or trees with alternate simple glandular-serrate 1., petioles with 2 

 glands. Calyx free, deciduous, petals 5, stamens 15-40, inserted in the mouth 

 of calyx-tube, filaments free. Carpel 1, ovules 2 collateral, pendulous. Fr. 

 fleshy, endocarp an indehiscent or 2 valved, 1 seeded, smooth or rugged stone. 



A. Fl. solitary, fasciculate or umbellate, appearing before or with the leaves, 

 with or after the 1. in 2. 



1. P. Amygdalus, Baillon ; Brandis F. Fl. 190.— Syn. Amygdalus com- 

 munis, Linn. The Almond-tree. Vern. Badam. 



A middle-sized tree, 1. greyish when full grown, oblong-lanceolate, serrulate, 

 petiole equal to or longer than the greatest width of leaf, stipules fimbriate. 

 Fl. white, tinged with red, appearing before the leaves from scaly buds on last 

 year's wood, peduncles much shorter than the campanulate calyx. Drupe velvety, 

 pericarp dry, when ripe separating into 2 valves, stone compressed with shallow 

 wrinkles and minute holes. 



Indigenous in Western Asia, also in the Kuram valley where Aitchison found it as 

 a small tree in gregarious patches (Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 50). Cultivated in the 

 Mediterranean region, also in Persia and Afghanistan, in Kashmir and the Punjab. 

 Fl. Feb.-March. 2. (Amygdalus) Stoeksiana, Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 644, frequent in Baluchistan, 



