296 Mil. J. MIERS ON THE SYMPLOCACEiE. 



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DiiurATRis, Lour. 1 



Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx 2 campanulatus, superus, limbo 5-fido, la- 

 ciniis acutis. Petala 4, subrotunda, concava, patentia, calyce sub- 



lonsriora. 



fii 



menta crassa; anther ce subrotundae, bilobse, erectae. Ovarium subro- 

 tundum ; stylus crassus, stamina aequans ; stigma crassiusculum. 

 Drupa ovalis, laevis, exsucca : nux trilocularis ; semina in quoque 

 loculo solitaria (" drupa quasitemaria, quae 3 nucleos continet " )• Ce- 

 tera ignota. 



1. D. cochincuinensis, Lour. I. c. p. 385. 



Arbor magna, ramis paucis, adscendentibus ; foliis alter nis, magnis, 

 ovato-oblongis, acuminatis, serratis, glabris ; racemo subterminali, spi- 

 catim oblongo, multifloro ; floribus parvis, albis. Drupa mediocris, 

 nou edulis. 



In Cochin China in sylvis : nan vidi. 



Dlcalix. 



A genus established by Loureiro in 1793 s . Lamarck acknow- 

 ledged it in 1811 4 . Blume in 1826 5 united Decadia with it ; 

 but as it does not appear that he saw either plant, his deter- 

 mination is of no value. It differs from all others of the family 

 in having each flower supported within a trifid involucellum, in 

 the extreme number of its stamens, and in its ampulliform fruit, 

 in which respect it approaches Bohua. 



Dicalix, Lour. 



Flores 



polygami, J in distincta planta. Involucellum 5 triphyllum, fo- 

 liolis acutis inflexis persistens. Calyx extus insitus, brevis, 5-dentatus, 

 persistens. Corolla rotata, 5-partita ; segmenta ovata, calyce longiora. 

 Stamina fere 100, corolla; insidentia et ipsa longiora; filamenta ca- 

 pillaria ; antherce subrotundae, biloculares. Ovarium subrotundum ; 

 stylus crassus, turbinatus, staminibus brevior ; stigma obtusum. 

 Drupa parva> involucello sufFulta, calycis lobis coronata ; nux ovata, 

 collo, constricta 1-locularis. 



1. D. cochinchine^sis, Lour. Cock. ii. p. 816 ; Lam. Diet. 

 Suppl. ii. p. 569 ; Sprang. Syst. ii. 568. — Arbor redeviva, Rumph. 

 Amboyna, vol. iii. lib. v. cap. xix. tab. 104. In Cochin China: 

 non vidi. 



1 Cock. i. p. 384. * Perianthium, Lour. 



3 Coch. ii. p. 815, _ 4 Diet. Suppl. ii. p. 471. 



5 Bijdr. p. 1116. 6 Calyx exterior, Lour. 



