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Srec. Cuan. Tree producing resin: leaves unequally pinnated : 
leaflets 7-11, petioled, oblong-lanceolate, with a short obtuse acu- 
mination, more or less serrulated, from almost glabrous to densely 
pubescent: young shoots, petioles, pedicels and calyx pubescent: 
panicles axillary, solitary, lax, much shorter than the leaves: flow~ 
ers very small, green. 
Chittagong and Assam. Flowering in March and April. 
ORDER LII. SAMYDACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs: leaves alternate, simple, entire or toothed, 
stipulate: peduncles axillary, solitary or several together: se- 
pals 4-5, more or less cohering at the base, usually coloured 
inside, somewhat imbricated in sstivation: petals wanting: 
stamens arising from the tube of the calyx: filaments monadel- 
phous, either all antheriferous or alternately shorter, villous or 
ciliated and alternately bearing anthers which are 2-celled: 
ovary superior, 1-celled: style 1: stigma capitate: ovules in- 
definite: capsule 1-celled, 3-5-valved, many-seeded, often pulpy 
inside: seeds covered with fleshy aril: albumen oily or fleshy. 
GENUS. I. CASHARIA. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Called after J. Casearius, who assisted Rheede in the 
Hortus Malabaricus. 
Gen. Cuar. Stamens 12-30, monadelphous at the base, alter- 
nate ones bearing anthers, sterile ones awl-shaped or spathulate, 
usually villous or fringed. 
(1) C. anavinea. (Rheede. ) 
Ident. Rheede Mal. IV.—Dalz. Bomb. fior. p. 11. 
Syn. C. ovata, Willd. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. IV. t, 49. 
Spec. Cuan. Teee: leaves oblique and subcordate at the base, 
ovate-oblong, serrulate, downy underneath: fruit oblong, smooth 
and shining: pedicels 1-flowered, axillary, usually solitary: flow- 
ers greenish-yellow. - 
Caranjah Hill and Rajapore, Bombay. Banks of the Hoogly. 
Flowering at the end of the year, 
