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GENUS III. PHCEBE. 



Enneandria monogynia. Sex: Sgst: 



GrBN. Chab. Flowers hermaphrodite, panicled, naked: calyx 

 funnel-shaped, 6-eleft, lobes nearly equal, persistent with the 

 indurated tube: filaments filiform, innermost 3 biglandulose at 

 the base : anthers ovate, 4-celled, innermost 3 extrorse : stami- 

 nodes 3, stalked, eglandulose, capitulum cordate, anther-shaped : 

 style filiform : stigma angular discoid : berry supported by the 

 indurated 6-cleft cupula, which is attenuated into a more or 

 less thickened pedicel. — Trees : leaves alternate or somewhat 

 verticillate, approximate, either tripli- or penninerved, buds 

 small, leafily few-scaled : paijicles axillary or terminal : flowers 

 subcymose. 



(1) P. WiGHTii. {Meissn.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 1. p. 38. 



Syn. P. paniculata, B. W. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1820. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves oblong-obovate or elliptic, glabrous and 

 shining above, beneath with the branchlets and peduncles tawny 

 pubescent : panicles axillary, racemiform, shorter than the leaf: 

 flowers hoary tomentose. 



Neilgherries. 



(2) P. LANCEOIAXA. (Nees.) 



Ident. Nees Syst. p. 109. — Dec. 1. c. p. 34. 



Syn. Laurus lauceolaria, Boxb. H. O. — Ocotea lanceolata, 

 Wall. pi. As. rar. II. p. 71. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1821. 



Spec. Chab. Small tree: leaves chartaceous, lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminated, somewhat veinless or obsoletely 

 reticulated, glabrous above or on both sides : panicle equalling 

 the leaves, collected into a terminal corymb, long-peduncled. 



Silhet. Assam. Khasia. 



(3) P. ASTGTJSTiEOLiA. (Meissn.) 



Ident. Dee. 1. c. p. 34. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree (?) : leaves chartaceous, lanceolate, 

 long' attenuated at both ends: panicles corymbiform, long- 

 peduncled. 



Khasia. 



