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I J to 2 broad, petioles 3 lines long, flowers fascicled in 

 dense axillary, heads, from small knobs on the branches, pedi- 

 cels 7 to 20 about 3 lines long, flowers fragrant pale yellow 

 petals densely villous on the inside, reflexed at the apex, 

 filaments very short glabrous or furnished with a few hairs 

 disk lobed petals about 3 lines long by 1 line broad. (Plate 

 . No. 2.) 



Rare. A lofty tree, dense moist woods on the A'naima- 

 lais at 2,000 feet elevations. 



ATJRANTIACEiE. 



Clausena Indica, (Oliver Mon. on Aurantiacese Linn. 

 Journal) [which is " Bergera nitida" of Thwaites Enum. and 

 " Piptostylis Indica," Dalzell in Hooker's Journal of Botany, 

 Vol. VIII, p. 33.] Common on the A'naimalais. 



Paeamignya akmata, (Oliver 1. c.) [which is " Anthro- 

 miscus armatus" of Thw. En.] A'naimalais, Wynad, Tra- 

 vancore hills. 



GUTTIFERiE. 



Calophyllum bbacteattjm, (Thw. En. Cey. pi. p. 51.) 

 This is the poon spar tree common in all our western gh&t 

 forests, erroneously entered in catalogues as " C. angustifo- 

 lium." 



SAPINDACEtE. 



Nephelium (Linn.) 



Nephelium stipulacexjm, (R H. B.) Arboreous polyga- 

 mo-dicecious leaves abruptly pinnate, leaflets 2-3 pair sub- 

 opp. the lower pair at the base of the petiole small 

 obliquely curved, and stipule-like, others oblong very ob- 

 tusely pointed, slightly attenuated at the base glabrous, 

 panicles axillary and terminal, together with the calyx and 

 • ovary slightly pilose ; stamens 6-8 ; ovary 2 lobed 2 celled 

 stigma 2 lobed, fruit oval, the size of a large gooseberry 



