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Beritiera.] xxvii. sterculiace^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 363 



Anthers va. a ring at the top of the column, cells 2, parallel. Ovaries 5-6, 

 almost free ; style short, stigmas 5 thick ; ovules solitary in each cell, ^t>? 

 »r;>e/5 woody, indehiscent, keeled or winged. Albumen 0; cotyledons 



i . ^^,*.^i<^le next the hihim.^-A genus of 4-5 species, natives of Tropical 

 Asia, Africa and Australia. 



r 



"^ ^' F^' littoralis, Drpand. in DC. Prodr. i. 484; leaves oblong base 

 rounded or subcordate, ripe carpels smooth outer margin winged inner 



p!. • n ^- "^^^^f^^^- ^ 6^ i ^^^^' ^^' ^^^- iii- 142 ; Thwaites Emm. 28 : 



""' " Mia. FL Ind. Bat, i. pt. 2. \\ 179 ; Dalz, S 



H F 



^ihs Bmib. Fl:22, H. Fomes, Wall. Cat. US9, parUy 

 flt'rt. Balanopteris Tothila, Goirtn. Frud. ii. 94, t. 99.— 



VI. t. 21, 



Hort 



I^^Coasts of Bengal and of the Eastekn and Western PExiusutAS and Ceyloit, 



!r!!° ^^? ^"'^"^ ^s far as the Khasia hills and Cachar.— Distrib. Tropical coasts 

 «^the Old World. 



jj;^V®®- Leaves 5-8 by 2-4 in., coriaceous, white beneath, with flat scales ; petiole 

 cl J ^"' ' ®^^*P^^GS lanceolate, caducous. 6 flowers small, in axillary much branched 

 aown^^^ ^^'cii are shorter than the leaves. Calyx nearly i in., urceolate, 6-toothed, 

 y^y. Column short. Anthers 5, 9 flowers larger than the <5. Calyx bell-shaped. 

 Tuits 1-4 in,^ oblong, woody, smooth or tubercled. 



^; 



.-^ 



Ian 1 * ^'^^^^s, Buck in Symes Ava Emb. t. 28, (1800); leaves broadly 

 flaH i^i- ^^^">i»ate tapering at the base 1 -nerved, ripe carpels obovate 

 J;"^"^^/urrowed on the inner edge winged on the outer. Balanopteris 

 ^ nor, {^(ertn. Fruct. il L 98. f. 2. Reritiera minor. Roxb. Hort. "-- "" 



Bern. 



142. 



- - 1 * 



of th P^^^^ ^^ ^^^ Gangetic delta, extending inland to Silhet, and along the shores 

 . e£,A8T^N Peninsula.— DiSTRiB. Bonieo. 



and R T' ^''"^''^' straight, often deeply grooved. Leaves 4-6 by 2 in., asby beneath 

 k-^„^?*v ; petiole 1 in. ; panirlpR ,iYi11,nrv half thft Imurtli of the leaves, crowded, much 



^^ for firewood in Calcutta. 



Flowers 



Beddome 



ffed. WaU 



H> 



Cat\^^ scaly beneath, flowers monoecious, ripe carpels wing 



• Yl^'^coRE and Southern Carnatic, at Caurtallum' and Tinnevellj, Beddome 

 eoldn? ^ evergreen tree, all the youn^ parts panicles and inflorescence clothed with a 

 sal"' ^f--' '^''"^te tomentum. Leaves 3-5 bj li-2 in., young downy on the upper 

 ■ with P^' ""''natelv coriaceous, glabrous and shining beneath, permanently silvery and 

 than ^^'T^ «^*'e8 ; petiole f-* in. : stipules entire. Panicles axil ary much shorter 

 glabro r ^'''?«- <J fl- ■■ c«/y/ campanulate, 4-5^1eft. Staminal anmn slender, 

 £Z' ^''^'''^ 4-5- 9 H : calyl i in-, 5-6.cleft. CarpeU 5-6, ultimately quite 

 ^marr^") ""'."' * P'*'"' of Btaminodes between each. Stigmas recurved. Btpe carpel 

 aroid, wing large, subdeltoid, membranous, like that of some butterflies {Beddo,ne). 



•arS/'^'"'^^^' "^«^/- Cat- IHO; Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Bar. 237, is a species of 

 **• {See Butacea:.) . 



4. REEVSSXA, LindL 



^.. 



BiSrS '^V^^es. Zca^;es simple. /Yot^ers numerous white in termina^ 



dawpH ^^"cf^^^ «y"ies. CWya; campanulate or fuune -shaped, 5-fid. Feiols 



of Imi f'''^inal.colum7i adwate to the gynonhore bearing a globose head 



^<^Ued anthers, cells diverging, ultimately confluent Ovary 6-lobed, 









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