NOTHOPEGIA COLEBBOOKIANA. (Nat. order Anaoturdiaoese.) 



For Gen. Char, sec Manual under head of this genus. 



NOTHOPEGIA COLEBROOKIANA. (Wight.) A small tree, leaves coriaceous oblong to obovate entire acute or 

 ending in a short abrupt acumen parallelly veined glabrous, racemes axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves much shorter than the 

 leaves many flowered, flowers small white, petals linear oblong, drupe size of a cherry transversely oblong- filled with sweet eatable 

 pulp. — Pegia ? Colebrookiana, Wight Icones tab. 236. Glycycarpus racemosus, Dak. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. p. 39. Nothopegia, 

 BlnmeMus. Bot. i. 203. 



Common in all the Western ghat forests of this Presidency and Bombay, and also in Ceylon ; called in Bombay Amberee, and in Ceylon 

 Bald. The drawing is from the pencil of Dr. TJnvaites, and ivas taken from a Ceylon specimen. jL^ 



Analysis. 



1. Flowering branch female tree. 



2. The same of the male tree. 



3. A male flower. 



4. Hermathrodite flower. 



5. The same petals removed. 



6. The same cut vertically. 



7. A fruit branch. 



8. Fruit cut vertically. 



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