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apiculate, 2 24-3 in. long, sparing oe 
flowers large, usually sollekey; tain B12 lin. cae cans ae es a 
Paramignya. | RUTACER. 193 
long; petals 3 lin. long, rather acute; stamens 10, alternately 
shorter ; ovary obovate, smooth, 2-celled, the torus elongatin. ing after 
flowering ; berries ovoid, shortly stalked, about 2 lin. long, smooth. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the upper mixed and occasionally in the moist 
a of the Pegu Yomah, sporadical but usually gregarious. —Fl, May.—l.— 
PARAMIGNYA, Wight. 
Calyx cupular or small, 3-5-lobed or -toothed. Petals 4-5, free, 
imbricate or rarely induplicate-valved. Stamens 8-10, rarely more, 
free ; filaments linear ; anthers linear-oblong to oblong. Disk thick 
and stalk-like. Ovary 3-5-celled, with 1 or 2 ovules in each cell ; 
style often elongate, deciduous. Berry with a thick leathery skin, 
1-5-celled and-seeded. Testa of seeds usually membranous. Armed 
or unarmed trees or shrubs, often scandent, with simple entire 
leaves. Flowers middling-sized or small, axillary, solitary, clustered. 
or in racemes or short panicles. 
* on about 8 lin. long. Calyx — cupular, broadly 
te; calyx 
a little cal than the calyx - P, monophylla. 
Style short; calyx and the Watlocls glabrous, the latter 1 in. or 
thereabouts ma . P. grandiflora, 
* gomns an i Tin Jong. Calyx small, with acute lobes. 
Young soot more or less he as ae style short, hirsute or 
é ra og Griffiths. 
@labrous ; 3 pe very short, tike the ovary glabrous oo ep « &. cibrifola. 
© Berries 3-4 
Erect tree, the spines 1-13 in. = igs ‘straight; calyx glabrous —.«.-xP, angulata. 
1. P. monophylla, Wight ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 510.—A scandent ever- 
green shrub, usually armed with 8 to 10 lin. long axillary recurved 
spines ; leaves elliptically oblong, oval or oblong, usually shortly 
acuminate, sometimes rounded or blunt, entire or obscurely crenate, 
glabrous or beneath on the midrib pubescen nt, 24-4 in in. long ; flowers 
cote —Tenasserim, at 5,000 ft. elevation (according to Oliver). 
2. P. grandiflora, Oliv.; Hf. Ind. Fl.i. 510.—A small tree, armed 
aie very short almost straight spines or nearly unarmed, the softer 
puberulous ; leaves ovate-oblong to elliptically oblong, on a 
us rather slender a petiole « 3 to 8 Jin. long, | bluntish 
