Pajanelia

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Pajanelia

Description

Glabrous tree without buttresses, robust in all its parts. Leaves 1-pinnate; Stamens 4, inserted at apex of lower tube, didynamous, subexserted, 5th rudimentary; Ovary oblong-cylindric; Capsule flat, obovate-lanceolate, tipped, valves broadly winged along the margin. Seeds in several rows on the edges of the septum, compressed, hyaline-winged.

Distribution

Andaman Is present, Asia-Tropical: Malaya present (Singapore present); Philippines (Philippines present); Thailand (Thailand present), Bunguran present, Burma present, Chittagong present, Duperré present, E. Atjeh present, E. Bengal present, Khasia present, Malabar present, N. Kedah present, N. Sumatra present, NW. of Sarawak present, Natuna Is present, Pegu present, Penang present, Perak present, S. China Sea present, SE. Asia present, Sedanau present, Sylhet present, Tenasserim present, Travancore present, West Malesia present
Monotypic, from Malabar eastwards through SE. Asia (E. Bengal: Khasia, Sylhet; Burma: Pegu, Travancore, Chittagong, Tenasserim; Thailand, Andaman Is.) to West Malesia: N. Sumatra (E. Atjeh), Malaya (Perak, N. Kedah, Singapore, Penang), and the Natuna Is. (Sedanau, Bunguran, Duperré) in the S. China Sea, NW. of Sarawak. .
F.-VILLAR () recorded it erroneously from the Philippines.

Citation

A.DC. 1845 – In: Prod.: 227
BUREAU 1864: Mon: 35, 50: t. 20
K.SCH. 1895 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 4: 244