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petioles 2-3 lines long, male flowers very small yellowish-white very numerous in very compound glabrous panicles wliicli are longer 
than the leaves, flowers generally 3-merous but often 4-merous, calyx slightly pubescent, petals veined glabrous, abortive ovary very 
small round with a turbinate apex, the female panicles (on a separate tree) much shorter than the male and few flowered, flowers much 
larger (more than twice as large as the male) greenish yellow, 4-5-merous, calyx very slightly pubescent, petals prominently veined 
(veins black), stigmas large, drupe obliquely obovate about 6 lines long by 4-5 lines broad supported on a short broad cup-like hypocarp. 
Bedd. FI. Syl. letter-press PI. ccxxxii. 
Travancore and Tinnevelly mountains up to 2500 feet elevation, very common throughout the new Pooleary pass between 
Quilon and Courtallnm, also at Panalur at no great elevation on the Travancore side of the ghats. The male tree is very showy when 
in full blossom, being a perfect mass of yellowish white flowers ; the female tree is inconspicuous, the flowers being few and greenish 
in color; the tree flowers in November. 
PLATE No. CLXXXVII. 
KHAMNEiE. 
COLUBRINA ? TrAVANCORICA. (Bedd.) A large shrub unarmed, young parts and young leaves beneath and costa 
above densely aureo-pubescent, in age the branches are slightly pubescent, leaves alternate but approximated in pairs (or subopposite) 
oblong with a lougish rather blunt acumen rounded or subcordate at the base serrate, 3-nerved at the base peuniveiued above, primary 
veins 4-5 on each side subglabrous in age or the costa and veins slightly pubescent, 3-5 inches long by l|-2 broad, petioles 4-5 lines 
long, stipules long subulate soon deciduous, flowers small in short pedunculate axillary cymes a little longer or twice as long as the 
petiole, fruit (not mature) 6 lines in diameter globose slightly depressed at the top. 
Travancore plains between Cotacarray and Panalur, in flower and fruit in November. 
PLATE No. CLXXXVIII. 
ROSACEiE. 
PARINARIUM TrAVANCORICUM. (Bedd ) A small very graceful tree, young parts with silky adpressed greyish white 
pubescence, leaves membranaceous or submembranaceous lanceolate or linear-lanceolate with a generally bluntisb acumen entire glabrous 
in age except the costa beneath which is often silky, 4-5 inches long by l-li broad, furnished with 2 inconspicuous glands at the base 
of the lamina beneath, primary veins numerous, veinlets much reticulated and prominent beneath, petioles 2-3 lines long, stipules 
(fig. A.) 4-5 lines long linear-lanceolate silky deciduous, racemes terminal simple or cymoaely branched, 3-4 inches long, silky pubes¬ 
cent, furnished with numerous lanceolate or linear-lanceolate bracts, calyx segments ribbed down the back acuminate or acute, 
petals oval or oblong glabrous, veined ; stamens 12-10 unilateral quite free at the base, filaments twice as long as the calyx-tube, ovaiy 
hirsute 2-locellate. 
I have only found this very graceful tree on the Travancore mountains about 2000 feet elevation, near the R,osemallay Coffee 
estates not far from Courtallum ; it is allied to P. Indicum, but more pubescent and with much smaller narrower leaves. 
PLATE No. CLXXX1X. 
RUBIACEiE. 
TfMONITJS JAMBOSELLA. (Gsertn.) A very small tree or large shrub, young parts and young leaves strigosely hairy, 
leaves elliptic lanceolate acuminate entire, 3-7 inches long by 1 j-2| broad, glabrous in age except the costa beneath and the hairy glands 
in the axils of the main veins, petioles 6-9 lines long, stipules hairy on the back ovate acuminate 3-4 lines long, disecious, male and 
hermathrodite, flowers yellowish-white, lobes fleshy subimbricate, male peduncles axillary opposite springing from within the stipules, 
i-li inch long bifurcate with a flower in the fork, the branchlets few-fl owered, flowers subsecund, corol infundibuliform hirsute outside 
sulcate within, stamens 4 attached by the middle of the back by a very short filament which does not extend nearly to the base of 
the lower lobe, style hairy especially towards the apex, stigma minute entire, hermathrodite peduncles axillary 1-flowered 14 inches 
long, flower articulate bibracteolate at the base, corol lobes more fleshy than in the male each lobe most prominently 3-sulcate on the 
inside, filaments much longer than in the male and extending below the lower lobe of the authei’, ovary about 12-celled, style 2-cleft 
at the apex each arm with 2 entire stigmas. Eupyrene, WA. 
Ceylon, up to 5000 feet, very common about Badagam in the south of island, also in the peninsula 1 Thwnites describes the 
stigma of the male flower as minutely bifid, and the hermathrodite stigmas as 12 (i. e., the 4 lobes each 3 cleft), but I do not find this 
in any flowers that I dissected ; the 4 stigmas appear to be quite entire. 
PLATE No. CXC. 
