PJECILONEURON PAUCIPLORUM. (Nat. ord. Ternstrffimiaeese.) 



For Gen. Char, see letter press to plate of P. Iudicum, PL iii., and under the head o£ this genus in the Manual. 



P^ECILONEUEON PAUCIFLORUM. (Bedd.) A good sized tree, glabrous, leaves narrow lanceolate with a longish 

 blunt acuminatum and attenuated at the base, 5-6 inches long by 1-1| broad, petioles 4-5 inch long, peduncles solitary or 2 together 

 axillary or in the axils of the fallen leaves A-f inch long, minutely puberulous, sepals 4 unequal puberulous on the outside, the 2 outer 

 small, petals 6 imbricate, stamens 16-22 in two series inserted on to an evident disk below the ovary, styles 2, ovary 2 celled with 2 

 erect ovules in each cell, fruit globose pointed size of a large cherry dehiscent into 2 coriaceous valves, 1 celled, 1 seeded, seed hard 

 round, testa loose membranaceous striated easily separable from the seed, cotyledons very large fleshy, albumen none. 



Abundant on banks of rivers on the South Tinnevelly and Travancore mountains up to nearly 4.000 fee'. ; called Pudangalli. It yields 

 a valuable hard reddish timber, which is used for building and other purposes, and for walking sticks. In the plate a drawing is also given of 

 a young seedling just after germination, showing the cotyledons and the loose testa attached. 



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