PARINARIUM INDICUM. (Nat. order Rosacese.) 



JTARINARIUM. Juss, — GEN". CHAE. Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 5, rarely 4. Stamens numerous or rarely few, all perfect or thoBe 

 on one side reduced to small stamiaodia, filaments filiform ; anthers small. Ovary of a single carpel, adnate on one side to the mouth of the calyx-tube 

 and protruding from it, more or less completely 2-celled, with 1 erect ovule in each cell ; style from the base of the ovary. Drupe ovoid or spherical, the 

 endocarp bony. Seeds 1 or 2, erect. — Trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire. Stipules deciduous, usually small. Flowers white or pink, in cymes 

 forming terminal raceme-like or corymbose panicles. Benth. Ft. Aust, ii. p. 426. Petrocarya, Jack. Grymania, Presl. Maranthes, Blume. Exitelia, 

 Blume. Lepidocarya, Korth. Balantium, Dcsv. Entosiphon, Bedd. 



Jr ARINARIUM iNDICUM. (Bedd.) A middling sized tree, glabrous except the inflorescence, leaves alternate elliptic to 

 lanceolate entire glabrous, slightly undulate, 8-9 inches long by 3 broad, with 2 glands at the base on the under side close above 

 the petiole, petiole \ to £ inch, racemes slightly rjubescent, shorter than the leaves, leaf opposed or terminal, flowers white 

 subsessile 3 bracteated, outer bract large ovato-lanceolate 2 inner ones linear-lanceolate, calyx tube infundibuliform, divisions 5 

 imbricate lanceolate acuminate subequal pilose, petals 5 inserted into the jaws of the calyx, between its divisions and the stamen tube, 

 and alternate with the former, ovate pointed imbricate equal, a little shorter than the calycine lobes, stamen-tube lining the inside of 

 the calyx and connate with it to its base densely hairy inside, stamens 12-15 all together on one side of the tube near the ovary, 

 filaments glabrous, twice the length of the calyx induplicate in aestivation, anthers 2-celled bursting longitudinally, the rest of the 

 stamen tube is furnished with teeth-like staminodia along its margin, ovary connate with the tube uear the summit, very hairy 2-celled, 

 cells 1-ovuled, ovules erect, style lateral or almost basal, glabrous except at the base, longer than the stamens. Bedd- Ic. p. 22, and 

 tab. cix. Entosiphon, Bedd. in Mad. Lit. J own. 



lhave only found this tree on the Wynad slopes (Malabar), Carcoor ghat and its vicinity 2000-3000 feet elevation, nothing is known 

 of its timber or uses. 



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