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ovate-oblong, acute, without glands : style filiform, short : stigma 

 subeapitate : ovary entirely immersed in the calyx-tube : caryopsis 

 free, enclosed. — Trees : leaves alternate, feather-nerved or rarely 

 somewhat triplinerved : scales of the leaf-buds few, leafy : panicles 

 axillary or terminal, short. 



(1) C. "WiGHTiANA. {Thwaites.) 



Ident. Thwaites en. Zeyl. I. p. 254.— Dec. prod. XV. s. 1. 

 p. 70. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1829. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves stiffly coriaceous, elliptic and oblong, 

 acuminated, glabrous above, glaucous beneath, minutely and 

 sparingly puberulous, prominently ribbed and veined, and densely 

 and obsoletely reticulated: panicles and branchlets tawny or 

 rufous-tomentose. 



Bombay. 



Var. Geiefithii (Dec. 1. c). — Leaves oblong, acuminulate, 

 attenuated acute at the base, distinctly deep reticulated above : 

 branchlets often glabrous, sparingly hoary tomentose at the apex 

 only : flowers caneacent, yellowish. 



Canara. 



(2) C. Stocksii. (Meissn.) 

 Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 71. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves ehartaceous coriaceous, obovate and 

 orbicular, very obtusely rounded or retuaely emarginate, above 

 glabrous, almost veinless, very densely dotted, beneath glaucine 

 in the nerves, sparingly puberulous and minutely areolate between 

 the transverse prominent veins : panicles short, tawny-tomentose : 

 flowers yellowish. 



Canara. 



(3) C. Nbilgheeeensis. (Meissn.) 

 Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 71. 



Spec. Chae. Branchlets densely tawny-tomentose : leaves 

 coriaceous, oval and oblong, obtusely subacuminate or obtuse, 

 glabrous above, ribbed, veinless, glaucous beneath, tawny-to- 

 mentose between the ribs, sparingly puberulous : panicles dense- 

 flowered : peduncle tawny-tomentose : flowers yellowish, tomen- 

 tose. 



Neilgherries. 



