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Seashore and Mangrove swamps along the western coast from the Konkan south- 

 wards, Sundriban, Chittagong, Burma, Andamans, Ceylon. Fl. R. S. Malay Archi- 

 pelago, Fiji iblands, 

 Africa, Australia. The 

 leaves of young plants are 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute. 

 2. C. moluccensis, Lamk. 

 (Xf/loca rim s G ra na f u m , 

 Willd., Pus^ur, Smid.). 

 Sundriban, Andaman&, Ma- 

 lay Peninsula and Archi- 

 pelago. Tropical Africa, 

 Australia. A middle-sized 

 tree, 1. 4-10 in. long, leaf- 

 lets usually 2 sometime^ 

 3 pair, thinly coriaceous, 

 ovate from a broad base, 

 acute. Panicles 3-5 in. 

 long, blender with lax few- 

 flowered branches, ii. pink- 

 ish yellow. Fr. 3-5 in. 

 diam., 4-grooved, brown, 

 valves woody. Kurz de- 

 scribes the flower as 

 pentamerous. 



Beddomea difters from 

 Para pa by petals 4-6 

 strongly imbricate in bud, 

 anthers 5-6, cellb nariow, 

 on a thick connective, 

 ovary hair\^, 3-5-celled, 

 cells with 2 ovulcb. 



1. B. indica, Hook. f. 

 "Western Ghats from Coorg 

 to Cape Comorin. A large 

 shrub, young shoots lepi- 

 dote, leaflets 3, 3-7 in. 

 long, fruit 1-1^ in. long, 

 rough with clo^e set rusty 

 scales. 2. B. simplicifolia, 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t, 135, 

 "Western Ghats common, 

 from South Kanara to 

 Travancore. A small tree, leaflets solitary, 3-6 in. long, fruit oblong, size of a 

 pigeon's egg^ acute at both ends, densely rusty-tomentose. 



Pig. QQ. — Cai-apa obovata, Blume. |. 



10. AMOORA, Eosb. ; FL Brit. Ind, i. 559. 



Evergreen trees, leaves imparipinnate, leaflets oblique. EL polygamoiis, 

 male fl. usually paniculate, fertile fl. often racemose or spicate. Calyx 3-5- 

 partite. Petals 3 (4 in 2 species) thick, concave, strongly imbricated. Stami- 

 nal tube nearly globose, anthers 3-10, included, in one row. Disk incon- 

 spicuous. Ovary 3-celled, cells 1-2-ovuled, stigma sessile. Capsule 3-valved 

 or indehiscent, seeds 1-3, enclosed in a fleshy arillus. — Species 25, one Austra- 

 lian, the rest Indian and Malayan. 



A. Leaflets opposite. 



1, A. Rohituka, W. <fc A. ; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 132. Vera, Sohaga, Oudh; 

 Bandriphdl^ Nep. ; Sikaroro^ Kol ; TJiitni^ Burm. 



A middle-sized tree, with a beafVy crown, in Burma attains 60 ft., wood pale 



red, youngest shoots pubescent. . Leaflets 5-7 pair, 3-9 in. long, seoofidary 



nerves prominent beneath, 10-15 pair. FL sessile, <J in panicled spikes, 



? in solitary spikes much shorter than leaves. Aathers 6, attached to the 



