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densely covered with weak prickles, seed oblong half cover- 

 ed with the succulent aril, testa brown, cotyledons very 

 large fleshy — leaves 6-10 inches long, leaflets 3-4 inches 

 long by 2-3 broad. A middling-sized tree, A'naimalais and 

 Wynad, up to 3,500 feet elevation. 



Nephelium erectum, (Thw. En. p. 57). A'naimalais 

 and Wynad. 



v. 



Harpullia imbricata, (Thw. En. p. 56) [" Otonychrum" 

 Blume, " Streptostigma" Thw.] A'naimalai hills, moist 

 woods, 2,000 feet. Common. 



MELIACEiE. ■ 



Lansium (Rumph) 



Lansium A'naimalaiense, (R. H. B.) Arboreous leaves 

 unequally pinnate 6-9 inches long ; leaflets 3-5 elliptic with 

 a blunt acumination attenuated at the base entire glabrous 

 3 to 4 inches long, 1J to 2 broad, flowers in axillary spikes 

 calyx 5 cleft segments imbricate, petals 5 subglobose imbri- 

 cate staminal tube obsoletely 10 cleft ; anthers 10, two celled 

 alternately shorter ovary strigose sessile 3 lobed, 3 celled 

 cells, 2 ovuled style obsolete, stigma obtusely 3 lobed fruit 

 size of a large grape, 2 celled 2 seeded ; seed arillate embryo 

 peritropal, radicle pubescent. (Plate No. 4.) A'naimalais 

 moist woods 2,000 feet (" Nemedra Nimmonii" Dalzell 

 Bombay Flora ? ? ) 



Beddomea sarmentosa, (Hooker £) Wynad, Mlgiris 

 and A'naimalais. (Plate No. 3.) 



Dv.soxylon (Blume.) There is a large undescribed tree 

 of this genus on the A'naimalais, (moist forest 2,000 feet) 

 I have however only procured it in fruit. " Fruit round a 

 little larger than a billiard ball, yellow when ripe covered 

 all over with rough tubercles, slightly attenuated near the 

 petiole, 3-4 eelled 3-4 seeded. Seed solitary in each cell, 



