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to obovate with a short blunt acumination, serrated 4 — 6 inch long, 

 2 — 3 inch broad, petioles 2 — 3 inch long — male racemes axillary 

 from nearly as long to longer than the leaves, many flowered pedi- 

 cels 3 — 4, from small convex bracts at interrupted distances along 

 the raceme. Female, peduncles 1 -flowered axillary, as long or 

 longer than the petioles, with 2 — 3 small bracts along their sulcated 

 surface. Capsule generally 2-lobed, cocci very hard. 



Anamallay hills in moist woods 2 — 3000 feet, a good sized tree, 

 wood very hard and close grained. 



ANTIDESMEiE. 



Laneasagum, (new genus.) 



Gen : Char : Diaecious. Male calyx 5 sepaled in a double series 

 imbricated, fusco-pubescent on the outside, within lined with a 

 thick fleshy hairy disk — stamens very numerous in several rows on 

 the outside of the disk — anthers 2 -celled, bursting longitudinally, 

 introrse, rudiment of an ovary 0, or rarely present. Female calyx 

 as in the male ovary sessile very downy crowned with a large ses- 

 sile 2-lobed stigma, lobes again 2-lobed and jagged on the mar- 

 gin, no rudiment of stamens — ovary 2-celled with 2 pendulous ovules 

 in each cell. Drupe densely covered with woolly hair, crowned 

 with the stigma, 2-celled, cells i-seeded, seed suspended, cotyle- 

 dons very large, foliaceous, cordate with a rounded apex, lying in 

 copious fleshy albumen, radicle long for the order. 



Laneasagum oblongifolium, a middling sized spreading tree, leaves 

 oblong with a short sudden acumination, entire glabrous, pale be- 

 neath; very shortly petioled, ramuli and petioles fusco-pubescent, 

 stipules nearly the length of the petioles, one on each side, cadu- 

 cous, flowers sessile on knobs on the branches, females sometimes 

 axillary, solitary. Drupe more than J the size of a walnut. 



Abundant in most woods on the Anamallays at from 2 to 3000 

 feet, called " Walk" by the hill tribes. 



ANONACEiE. 

 Orophea. 



O : erythrocarpa. Leaves elliptic 2J — 3J inch long by 1 — 2 

 inch broad, acuminated, slightly pubescent when young, at length 



