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which are the only ones known. It is therefore doubtful whether they 

 really belong <o the former which, but for the pubescence on the under 

 surface of the leaves, might belong to IV. glabrum, Noronha. 



10. Pometia, J. R. & G. Forst. 



Tall trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate ; leaflets subopposite, entire 

 or seivrate (the lowest pair usually stipuliform). Racemes simple or 

 panicled, elongated, slender. Flowers regular, polygamous, fascicled, 

 small, shorter than their pedicels. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-4-fid, valvate 

 in bud. Petals 5-4, small, usually without scales. Dt.sc complete, 

 annular, lobed. Stamens 4-8, usually 6-4, inserted within the disc, at 

 length much exserted ; anthers small. Ovary 2-3-coccous and -celled; 

 ovules solitary. Style elongated; stigma obtuse, emarginate. Fruit 

 1-2-coccons ; lobes subglobose or ellipsoidal, indehiscent, smooth. 

 Seeds exalbuminous, covered with a mucilaginous aril. — Distrib. Species 

 about 4, in Malaya Ceylon and Australasia. 



Calyx and leaflets quite glabrous, panicles sub- 

 glabrous... ... ... ... 1. P. macrocarpa. 



Calyx always pubescent, leaflets glabrous or 

 pubescent ; inflorescence puberulous or pubes- 

 cent. 



Leaves 12 to 24 in. long ... ... 2. P. pinnata. 



Leaves 3 to 8 in. long 



Leaflets oblanceolate, caudate-acuminate ; 

 petals oblong, much longer than the calyx ; 

 panicles much longer than the leaves ... 3. P. gracilis. 

 Leaflets oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, not 

 caudate-acuminate ; petals often absent, if 

 present rotund and not much exceeding the 

 calyx ; panicles not longer than the leaves 4. P. alnifolia. 

 1. Pometia MACROCAKPA,Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. XLIV, 

 pt. II, (1875), p. 205. A glabrous tree ; leaves 9 to 12 in. long, the 

 rachises glabrous and the petioles thickened at the base : leaflets coria- 

 ceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong, slightly unequal-sided, shortly acumi- 

 nate, the edges with remote glandular teeth, the base rounded ; both sur- 

 faces quite glabrous, the lower paler and with the reticulations distinct, 

 the midrib prominent on both ; main nerves 15 to 18 pairs, spreading, 

 depressed on the uppei', prominent on the lower surface ; length 4*5 to 

 6 in., breadth 1*75 to 2 in ; petiolules '2 in., stout. Panicles axillary, 

 about as long as the leaves, with several sub-glabrous racemoid bran- 

 ches bearing the flowers in cymules. Flowers '1 in. in diam., on glabrous 

 pediceis twice as long as themselves, Calyx glabrous, 5-lobed. Petal 



