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origin, the localities extending from Ceylon to Japan and the 

 islands of New Caledonia. The genus differs from Lodhra in the 

 following characters :— in its comparatively smaller corolla ; in 

 its more numerous stamens in 4-5 series, united at their base into 

 5 fasciculated bundles, shortly cohering below, and fixed upon the 

 short tube of the corolla ; in its scabrid anthers ; in its pilose fili- 

 form style; in its ventricose ovary bearing a single suspended 

 ovule in each cell ; in its epigynous disk, which is crenately annu- 

 lar, umbilicate and striated within ; in its baccate fruit, corru- 

 gated, fleshy, often of a bright blue colour ; in its testaceous am- 

 pulliform nut, which is 3-celled, divided by fungous dissepiments 

 meeting in the axis, and there perforated in the embryo of its albu- 

 minous seed, having a more slender and more elongated radicle 

 with two minute inferior cotyledons. 

 The following is an amended diagnosis. 



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Bobfa, De Candolle. — Bobu, Adans. ; Hermann. — Eugenioides, 

 Linn. — Symplocos (in parte) auctt. — Chasseloupia, Vieillard. 



Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx parvus, turbinatus, ad medium 5-fidus, 

 lobis brevissime acutis, membranaceis, ciliatis, persistens. Petala 5, 

 calyee 2-3plo longiora, lobis calycinis alterna, obovata, imo breviter 

 cohaerentia, rotata. Stamina circa 50, petalis vix longiora, tubo brevi 

 corollae insita, saepius breviter pentadelpha, superne libera ; filamenta 

 subimbricata, late lineari-oblonga, valde reticulata, membranacea, 

 apice subito in filum constricta; antherce didymo-globosae, scabri- 

 dulae. Discus epigynus, crenato-annularis, umbilicatus, intus stria- 

 tus. Ovarium turbinatum, subinferum, disco coronatum, triloculare ; 

 ovula in quoque loculo solitaria, suspensa. Stylus petalis longitudine, 

 aequalis filiforrais, 5-angulatus, pilosus; stigma trigonum, capitatum. 

 Fructus ovatus, baccatus, saepe coloratus, corrugosus, disco lobisque 

 calycinis coronatus ; nux ovatus, collo constricta et hinc ampullacfor- 

 mis, testacea, trilocularis ; dissepimenta fungosa, mollia, in axi pro 

 vasibus nutrientibus perforata. Semina saepe 1 vel 2 abortiva ; inte- 

 gumentum membranaceum ; embryo in albumine copioso carnoso 

 tenuiter teres, paullo curvatus : radicula supera, elongata ; cotyle- 



dones 2, minimae, obtusae, inferae. 

 Arbores, scepius arbusculze, in insulis Asiaticis vigentes, ramosat ; folia 

 elliptica vel oblonga, integra aut serrata, petiolata ; racemi breves, 



paucijlori; flores parvi. 



§ 1. Species Asiatics. 



1. Bobua laukina, DC. Prodr. iii. p. 23 (182S).— Bobu 

 Eemba, p au i Hermann, in Mus. seu Cat. PI Zeylan. (1714); Linn. 



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