SACCOPETALUM TOMENTOSUM. (Nat. ord. Anonaceae.) 



SaCCOPETALUM. (Bennett.) Gen. PI. 1, p. 151.— GEN. CHAR. Sepals 3, small ; petals 6, the 3 exterior about the size of the sepals, 

 the 3 interior much larger, cohering together at the margins at length free, saccate at the base ; torus subglobose ; stamens indefinite in many series ; 

 anthers laxly imbricate, subsessile 2-eelIed ; ovaries numerous, ovules in 2 series, 6 or more. Deciduous trees with the flowers appearing before the foliage 

 or with the young leaves. 



SaCCOPETALUM TOMENTOSUM. (H. f. et T.) A good sized tree, branches rugulose, young ones fulvo-tomentose, 

 leaves oval or ovato-oblong acute pubescent on both sides, rotundate or cordate at the base, thinly coriaceous opaque pale beneath 4-6 

 inches long 2-|-3 broad, petioles \ inch long ; peduncles 1-2 lines long leaf-opposed 1-2 flowered, pedicels 2-3 inches long slender ; 

 sepals linear-oblong 2 lines long ; exterior petals longer than the sepals linear, interior petals oblong obtuse puberulous on the out- 

 side tomentose within, |-1 inch long, torus densely villous ; ovaries 4-7 ovuled ; carpels 5-15 subglobose 1 inch long, fulvo-tomentose 

 on pedicels about |- inch long, seeds 3-4 nestling in pulp. H. f. et T. Fl. Ind. 1, p. 152 ; — TJvaria tomentosa. Roxb. ii, p. 667 ; — 

 W. A. Prod. I, page 8. 



A tall, handsome tree of very straight growth, not uncommon about the foot of the Ghats on the western side of the Madras Presidency, 

 and also found in the Concan, Bahar, Orissa and Nepal. Nothing is known of the timber. 



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