POLYALTHIA FRAGRANS. (Nat. order Anonacea>.) 



For Gen. Char, see under "P. cerasoides." 



J?OLYALTHIA FRAGRANS. (Dalz.) A large tree, leaves ovate, oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, rounded at the base 

 generally oblique ; very prominently veined, especially beneath, glabrous above, slightly pubescent on the costa and veins beneath, 

 4-9 inches long 2-5 inches broad, petioles about \ inch long, peduncles about an inch long, from the axils of the fallen leaves, pedicels 

 filiform, 1 inch long, and (as are the calyx and petals) hoary-puberulous, furnished with a half cup-shaped bract about the middle, 

 sepals small rotuudate; petals 1-1§ inches long narrow linear attenuated at the apex, sub-equal ; torus dilated depresso-globose, car- 

 pels 10-20 oblique ovoid 1-lj inch long, hoary puberulous, long pedicelled. Dak. in Hook Kew. Misc. iii. 206 ; — Hook and Thorn. 

 Fl. Ind. p. 142. 



A large tree common in the moist forests of the Anamallays, 2-3,000 feet, in Malabar, on the South Canara ghats and Bombay Presidency „ 

 and probably throughout the western ghats of Madras. I am unacquainted with its timber. 



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