1893.] G. King — Indian Species of Canarmm. 185 



CANARIUM, Linn. 



Tall reziniferous trees. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, stipulate 

 or exstipulate. Flowers bracteate, in panicles or racemes, dimorphous, 

 those with fertile stamens and rudimentary ovaries being smaller but 

 in larger inflorescences, those with fertile ovaries and rudimentary 

 stamens being larger but in smaller inflorescences. Calyx campanulate, 

 with 3 valvate lobes or teeth. Petals 3, imbricate, longer than the 

 calyx. Stamens 6, the filaments united in their lower part to form a 

 tube. Ovary 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell. Style cylindric, or stigma 

 subsessile and capitate. Drupe ellipsoid, more or less distinctly trigo- 

 nous, with a 1-3-celled, 1-3-seeded, stone ; cotyledons often partite.* 



1. 0. bengalense, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 49: PI. Ind. III., 136. 

 Young branches glabrous. Leaves 1 to 2 feet long (in young trees 

 considerably more) ; leaflets 11 to 21, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 

 entire, acute, or very shortly acuminate, the base rounded or slightly 

 narrowed ; both surfaces glabrous ; the main nerves 10 to 20 pairs, sub- 

 horizontal, curving at their tips, distinct on the lower surface when dry; 

 length 3 to 7 in., breadth 125 to 2 - 5 in. ; stipules subulate, pubescent, 

 deciduous. Inflorescence glabrous as to the rachises, the pedicels of the 

 flowers pubei'ulous ; the male flowers in racemose panicles, the lateral 

 branches of which are pedunculate few-flowered rather lax cymules. 

 Calyx about one-third of the length of the corolla, campanulate, its 

 mouth with 3 shallow broad teeth. Petals coriaceous, oblong, concave, 

 glabrous. Staminal-tube about the same length as the free part of the 

 filaments and anthers ; free part of filament slightly shorter than the 

 narrowly ovate anthers. Disc none ; rudimentary ovaiy depressed, 

 deeply lobed, hispid at the apex. Female flower (fide Roxburgh) like 

 the male ; the ovary ovoid, tapering gradually into the style, the stigma 

 3-clef t. Pipe drupe oblong ; the style sub-persistent, tapering to each 

 end, smooth, 1*5 to 175 in. long and '7 to "8 in. in diam. Hook. fil. PI. 

 Br. Ind. I, 534 ; Engler in DC. Monog. Phan. IV, 118. 



Assam and Sylhet ; Griffith -No. 1144. (Kew Distrib.), Simons, 

 S. E. Peal, Mann. 



A tall tree like C. striatum but, unlike that species, almost 

 entirely glabrous, and having leaves with smaller and more numer- 

 ous leaflets. According to Mr. S. E. Peal, who has resided and observ- 

 ed in Assam for five and twenty years, its vernacular name in the 

 Sibsagar district of that province is Neribi. Prom wounds in the 



* There is no true disc in any of the species here described. What some 

 writers refer to as a disc is merely the tube formed by the union of the dilated 

 lower part of the filaments. 



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