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(8) P. Canaeanus. (MuUer.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c— Dec.-l. c. p. 284. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : leaves oblong-obovate or oblong- elliptic, 

 acute, obtuse or very shortly acutish at the base, pale above, 

 purplish-brown beneath : flowers fascicled : segments of the 4 — 6- 

 parted female calyx oblong-ovate, somewhat unequal : ovary 5—6- 

 celled, glabrous: styles connate into a rather thin cylindric 

 column, 6-cleft at the apex : capsules globose, slightly depressed 

 at the base and apex, scarcely furrowed, beaked with the per- 

 sistent styline column. 



Canara. Mysore. 



(9) P. HoHENHAOKEEI. {MulUr.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c— Dec. 1. c. p. 288. 



Spec. Chae. Tree: leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or 

 subcuspidate, narrowed at the base, brown, more or less shining 

 above: male flowers pedicelled, females sessile: female calyx 

 4-toothed : segments of the 6-parted male calyx oblong-eUiptic : 

 ovary 4-celled, glabrous : styline column much depressed, thick, 

 a little shorter and broader than the ovary, deeply cruciately 

 4-cleft: capsule depressed, 4-coccous, 8-furrowed, crowned by 

 the styline column. 



Canara. Malabar. Concan. 



(10) P. FAGiroLitrs. {Muller.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c— Dec. 1. c. p. 288. 



Spec. Chae. Male flowers pedicelled, females sessile: seg- 

 ments of the 6-cleft female calyx triangular-ovate,' of the male 

 oblong-ovate : ovary globose, 4 — 6-celled, glabrous : styline co- 

 lumn depressed, thick, radiately 4— 6-cleft at the top. 



Var. a. CONCOIOE. — Tree : branchlets of the same obscurely 

 green colour : stipules oblongate-ovate, recurved at the margin : 

 leaves oblong or lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, acute at the base, 

 ashy-green above, purplish-brownish beneath, somewhat unequal- 

 sided: male calyces obovate, females slightly puberulous ex- 

 ternally, about 3 — 8-glomerate in the axils : styline column grey. 



Chittagong. Neilgherries. 



Var. b. ccESius. — Branchlets intensely grey above: styline 

 column grey : leaves often narrower, paler above. 



Neilgherries. 



(11) P. Thomsotti. {Midler.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c— Dec. 1. c. p. 293. 



Spec, Chae, Small tree i stipules subulate-acumiuate, ovate* 



