Sideroocylon] 



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82. Thilcho, Burin. Upper Burma (a large, tree, Smales). Shan hills 4,000 ft., Collett. 

 Similar to 3, but 1. broader, pet. 1 in. long, staminodes slightly hairy. Species 1-4 are 

 closely allied. 



B. Fl. small, corolla less than }.- in. long, filaments as long as or longer than 

 anthers. 



5. S. longepetiolatum, King & Praiu, Ann. Gard. Calc. is. 50 1. 63 (Gluta longipetiolata, 



Fin. li>2. Sideroxvlon tomentosum, Roxb. 1. 



Kurz F. Fl. i. 310). Andamans, Narkondam. Attaran forests. A considerable tree, 

 blade 6-24, pet. U-3 in. long, sec. n. prominent beneath. Fl. fascicles on axillary 

 racemfiS 1-2 in., pedicels slender, pubescent, .', in. long. 



• 1. S. ferrugineum, Ib«,k. cv Am. — Syn. N. nllenunlum, A. DC: Wight Ic. t. 1590. 

 Mergni, Malay Penins. and Archip. South China. Young snoots, young I. and 

 pedicels rusty pubescent, 1. coriaceous shining, from a cuneate has:' elliptic or obovate, 

 blade 8-6, pet. \ in. Pedicels J, corolla ^ in. long. 7. S. grandifoliuni, Wall. Khasi 

 bills. Martaban, hills between Beeling and Sitang rivers. A large tree (Kurz), 1. 

 crowded at the extremities of the thick branchlets, glabrous, ohartaceous, from 



oblan late to obovate, blade 6 10, pet. A in. Fl. greenish, almost sessile, usually 



on the old wood belo« the 1. in dense clusters on wartlike tubercles above the leaf- 

 scars, corolla ,'. in. long. 



8. S. (?) Gamblei, C. B. Clarke. Sikkim up to 4,000 ft. A large tree, 1. elliptic, blade 

 5-7, pet. 1 in. lone-, sec. n. very prominent benefith.fr. ellipsoid, 1J in. long. Fl. un- 

 known, genus uncertain. 



2. CHRYSOPHYLLUM, Linn.; Fl. Brit: Ind. iii. 535. 



Species <in, chiefly in tropica] America. 



C. Roxburghii, G. Don ; Bedd. PI. Sylv. t. 236. Thi Star Apple. Vera. 

 Tarsi, Dongrima, Mar.; Halt, Kan.; Kdtlluppa, Tarn. : Pala, Mai. 



A middle-sized, at t imes a large evergreen I fee branchlets and often nerves 

 beneath clothed with fine rusty hairs. I,, coriaceous, shining, el lipi ic-oblong, 

 abruptly acuminate, blade ■ '< 7 in. Long, narrowed into a short petiole, see. d. », 

 parallel, res blingt 'alophyllum. Fl. small, greenish-white, in dense axillary 



clusters, pedicels slender, ', in. long, glabrous or rusty-pubescent, calyx-seg- 

 ments ">, obtuse, coi'ulhi br U\ cainpauulate, lobes short, rounded, ciliate, 



ovar\ ■"> li-celled, villous. I!erry rusty-tomentose when young, yellow when 

 ripe, edible, B 6 ridged, obscurely when fresh, sharply when dry. Seeds 5-6, 

 compressed, testa corii us. 



. \ - ~: i iii. K.hosi hills, Pegu. Western Ghats from the Konkan southwards. Fl. 

 March M.i\ Ceylon moisl region, Malai Penins. and Archip. 



