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Racemes almost terminal, umbel-like, puberulous - + «+ A. grandifolia, 
Nearly glabrous; leaves thin-chartaceous ; flowers minute, in very 
small rusty-velvety cyme-like racemes of the length of the 
iole . f pk en ene ° . ae t » A. eugeniafolia, 
xX X Leaves more or less serrate or crenate (at least 
apex). 
© Inflorescence long-peduncled, 
obes bluntish. 
Glabrous or the young shoots and slender-bracted racemes puberu- 
lo eaves acute ° . . : ° . - A, Wallichii. 
Glabrous ; leaves blunt ; racemes umbel-like, puberulous or glabrous, 
omewhat shorter than the leaves , - ‘ : : - A. Brandisiana. 
-lobes acute, 
Rusty-tomentose or pubescent ; leaves acuminate . . : « A. Helferi, 
nflorescence sessile, or at least the prim ra- 
mes sessile and the lateral ones only peduncled. 
Inflorescence and leaves glabrous ; calyx-lobes a line long . - A. crispa. 
Leaves beneath and inflorescence brownish ; calyx-lobes 23 lin. 
long . : é : . ° . ° . - A, villosa, 
* Flowers in terminal compound panicles or the panicles accom- 
panied by smaller ones in the axils of the upper leaves. 
1. A. rigida, Kz.—An evergreen shrub(?), the young shoots 
probably indistinctly rusty-lepidote ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, taper- 
ing in a strong petiole, 4-6 lin. long, shortly and bluntish acumi- 
hate, pergamaceous, entire, 6-9 in. long, glabrous, dotted, the 
nerves rather parallel and prominent beneath ; flowers small, on } 
to nearly 3 lin. long, thick, minutely rusty-puberulous nodding pedi- 
Haz.—Tenasserim or Andamans. 
®. A. paniculata, Roxb.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 138.—An ever. 
Steen large shrub or small tree, all parts quite glabrous; leaves 
crowded at the end of the branchlets, obovate-cuneate to lanceolate- 
cuneate, tapering and decurrent on the short strong petiole, acute 
wnes ; calyx-lobes ovate, rather acute, glabrous; corolla rotate, 
the lobes more than 2 lin. long, ovate, acute; drupes globular, 
A. anceps, Wall.—An evergreen tree (20—25 + (?)4+4—1), 
3. 
the branchlets all compressed and covered by an indistinct silvery- 
