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Tribe IV. Bonnetiece. Flowers in terminal panicles, rarely lateral and 

 solitary or racemose. Petals contorted. Anthers versatile or basitixed. 

 Fruit indehiscent or septicidal; albumen scanty or 0. Embryo straigM, 

 cotyledons flat ; radicle short. 



Ovary 5-celled ' 14- AECHrTJEA. 



Pceciloneuron is referred to Guttiferae. (p. 278.) 



1. ANNESZiEil., WaU. 

 Evergreen trees with the habit of Ternstroemm. Flowers axillary and 

 forming sub-terminal umbellate corymbs, rather large, white, bepm o, 

 connate into a tube which is finally fleshy and adherent to the ovary, i etats 

 5, connate. Stamem many, scarcely adherent to the corolla ; anthers wii 

 a long apiculus. Ovarjj ^-immersed in the torus, 3-celled ; style ^-na, 

 ovules many, pendulous from the top of the cells. Fntit baccate, leatne^ 

 inferior, crowned by the sepals. Seeds oblong with a horse-shoe-snape 

 cavity, testa osseous, albumen fleshy.— Distbib. Malay Pemnsula ; species i. 



1. A. fra^rans, Wall. Cat. 598; Plant. As. Ear. i. 5, t. 5; P^'l^^^f 

 about twelve in each corymb 2|-3 in. slender with 2 ovate obtuse oracw. 



Griff. Notul. XV. 567, t. 585 A, f. 17. 



Eastern Penissula ; Moulmein and Martaban, WaUich, &c. .. i 



A tree 30 ft. Leaves 3i-5 by lJ-24 in., elliptic-oblong, acute or obtuse; pe™ 



-1 in. Sepals 4 in., cordiform, acute. Fruit 1 in. diam. Seeds with a thin scan 



eshy envelope. - 



2. A. crassipes, Ilooh. ex. CJwis. Mem. Ternstr. 41 ; peduncles 3-6 in 

 each corymb about 1 in. rather thick with 2 small ovate acute nesu^ 

 bracts. ' tu 



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Petak 5, connate at the base. Stamens many ; 



ly 2-3-lobect or 



ovules 2 in each cell, rarely 1 or 3-6, pendulous from the apex- o^^^ ^ 



Anneslea but the albumen sometimes evanescent. — Distbib 



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America ; species 25. 

 Anthers apiculate. 



1. T. japonica, Thunb, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 335 ; a tree ^tout 20 ft, 

 leaves obloug-obovate petioled, style subentire, stigma 2-lobed, trmi 5 

 bose, Cleyera japonica, Thtinb. FL Jap. 224 {not of Sieb. & Zucc). ^ 



Eastern Bengal and Peninsula, from the KhaBia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft- ^^^^^^^ 

 mein. Western Peninsula ; NilghiriMts. ; Ceylon. — Distkib. Sumatra, 

 Japan, Loochoo Islds. 9 3 tj 



Brancldets with rather soft hark, whorled or repeatedly forked. ^^^"^^pj^^^U* 

 S-)f in., rather crowded. at the ends of the branches; petioles J-i Ji^- ^; ^oUa 

 J-l in., 2-edged. Flowers I in. diam., in the axils of the fallen leaves, ^ 



spreading, pale yellow.. Qvary-ceUs 2-ovuled. Fruit l-i in. diam., haccaie, 



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2. TERNSTROBMIA, Linn. i 



Glabrous evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves leathery, entire or ^r^* 

 serrate. Peduncles lateral, recurved, 2-bracteate below the flower. ^^' 



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