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(l) T. GRANDis. (Linn.) 



fkeni. Linn. fil. suppl. p. 151. — Dec. prod. XI. p. 629. — Roxk" 

 %or. Ind. I. p. 600. 



Engrav. Rheede Mai. IV. t. 24.: — Rumph. Amb. III. t. 18. 

 —Lam. floT. t. 136.— Roxb. Cor. I. t. 6. 



Spec. Char. Tree : branched quadrangular : leaves oppositCj 

 large, ovate or subelliptic-a'cuminated, short-petioled, shining aboVe : 

 'cymes axillary^ dichotomous, or collected in a terminal panicle : 

 flowers nu'mei'Ous, 66iall, white : drupes enclosed in the inflatled 

 calyx : hut 4-celled, oUe-sieed in each : Seeds thick, oily. 



Banks of rivers, in Malabar and the Western coast. Bundelktlhd. 

 Flowering in the rains. This is the Teak tree so well known for its 

 Valuable timber. 



GENUS IX. PREMNA. 

 ibidyiia'iiiia Ansibspermia. Sex-. iSys't: 



Deriv. From Prem'non, the Stump of a. tvee, the trees are dt 

 'dwarf size. 



Gen. Gear. Calyx capatileishapM, cup-shaped or snbcam- 

 pamilatej somewhat bilabiately 4-5-6left or toothed Or bilabiate^ 

 one or the Other lip at l^aat entire, persistent, at length increas- 

 ing : corolla tubular, tube somewhat fniinel-shaped, short : limb 

 sometimes bilabiately 4-clefl, spreading, upper lip half bifid or 

 emarginate, lower 3-cleffc or 3-parted, lObes nearly equal, some- 

 times somewhat regular, reflexed ': throat villous, often lOng 

 bearded : stamens didynamous or nearly equal, equalling the 

 corolla or exserted, eqtddistant ; anthers subrotund, diverging 

 from the base of the cell : ovary 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled : stylo 

 filiform, nearly equalling the stamens : stigma 2-cleft, feet diva- 

 ricate : drupe pea-shaped, fleshy, 1-stoned, putamens perforated 

 at the axis, hard, Wrmkled or Warty-tubdrcled, 4-celled or by 

 abortion 2-3-celled : seed erect. — Shrubs, lindershrubs or tfees 

 glabrous, or pubescent : leaves opposite, simple, quite entire or 

 toothed: flowers small, arranged in terminal trichotomously 

 cymose, corymbiform, bractiately-pyramidal or anthuroideoua 

 panicles, often polygamous, the primary axils alone being fertile. 



(1) P. iNTEGRiFOLiA. {Linn.) 



Ident. Linn. Mant. II. p. 253. 



Syn. P. serralifolia, Innn. — Cornutia corymbosa, Burm. — P. co.! 

 rymbosa, Rottl. et Willd. — P. spinosa, fioxS. 



Engrav. Burm. Ind. t. 41. fig. I. — Wight's Icon. t. 1469, 



