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Srrc. Cuan. Leaves unequally pinnate: pinne 5-7 pairs: 
leaflets ovate, acuminate, pubescent beneath, quite entire: panicles 
axillary and, with the petioles, thickly covered with rusty-coloured 
hairs: interior petals cleft nearly half their length, with the points 
reflexed: filaments furnished with 2 scales below the middle; 
flowers small, yellowish. : 
Neilgherries, 
ORDER XXXIV. MELIACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs: leaves without stipules, alternate or very 
rarely opposite, simple and entire, sometimes pinnated: sepals 
8-5, distinct or united, imbricated in estivation: petals alter- 
nating with them, distinct or rarely united at the base: zstiva- 
tion valvular or imbricated: stamens usually as many as the 
petals, very rarely numerous: filaments united into a tube: 
anthers sessile within the tube, or on its margin, introrse: ovary 
single: ovules usually in pairs, rarely 4: styles and stigmas 
combined, very rarely distinct: fruit baccate, drupaceous or 
capsular, with several cells: seeds with or without an aril, never 
winged or flat. 
GENUS I. NAREGAMIA. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Sez: “Syst : 
Deriv. The Malabar name Latinized. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx small, cup-shaped, 5-cleft: petals 5, very 
long, strap-shaped, distinct, free from the stamen tube: filaments 
united into a long tube, inflated and globular at the apex: the 
mouth with 10 anther-bearing crenatures: anthers .spreading out- 
wards, with a small appendage at the apex: ovary 3-celled: cells 
2-ovuled: style filiform: capsule 3-cornered, 3-valved: valves or 
bicular ; seeds 2 in each cell, curved. 
(1) N. anata. (W. § A.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p, 117.—Drury’s Useful Plants, p. 319. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 90.—Rheede Mal. X. t. 22. 
. Spec. Cuar. Glabrous shrub: leaves trifoliolate: leaflets cu- 
neate-obovate, quite entire, sessile: petiole margined: peduncles 
axillary, solitary: flowers white. 
Travancore. Vingorla, Flowering in April and May, 
