414 XXIX. LINEJE. (J.D.Hooker.) [Roucheria 



R. Griffitlilana. Planch in Hook 



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527 ; leaves lanceolate or elliptic- or obovate-lanceolate obtusely caudate- 

 acuminate crenate-serrate, drupe 1-celled 1-seeded. ^ 



Malacca, Oriffithj Maingay, — Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo. „ 



' A climbing shrub, perfectly glabrous. Learns 3-5 in., alternate, coriaceous, compli- 

 cate, shining above, nerves few, arched; petiole ^ in., slender. Flowers J in. uiam., 

 7^ in a cluster; pedicels very short, densely bracteate. Petals narrow, very_ fugacious. ^ 

 Drwpe the size of a small pea.— There cannot be much doubt of this constituting the 

 genus Sarcotheca, Blunie, though he describes the calyx as ebracteate, the ovules as 

 superposed, and the fruit as a bacciform capsule, dehiscing hy 5 apical fissures. 



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6. ERTTKROXVIiON, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees, usually quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, quite 

 entire, often subdistichous ; stipules intrapetiolar, often imbricating <> 

 short arrested leafless branches. Flowers axillary, small, white or pm j 

 solitary or fascicled ; peduncles bracteolate, Sepals 5, rarely 6,_ free o 

 connate. Petals 5, hypogynous, deciduous, with an erect double ^^o^^^ ^^ 

 the inner face, imbricate. Stamens 10, rarely 12, filaments united ^".^^ 

 glandular or eglandular tube. Ovary 3- rarely 4-celled ; styles 3, rarely , 

 free or connate (connate in all Indian species), stigmas capitate 5 9^ . ' 

 rarely 2 in each cell Drupe 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed with a thm tesca, 

 albumen variable in quantity or 0; embryo straight, cotyledons plan - 

 convex,' radicle short.— Distrib. Species about 50, four-fifths ot tnem 

 American, and almost all tropical. The Indian species are not easy 

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♦ Leaves glaucous brown beneath when dry. 



1. E. monogrynum, Roxh. Cor. PL i. t. 88 ; Fhr. hid. u. 449 ; 

 leaves 1-2 by |-1 in. obovate or elliptic- or cuneate-obovate tip rounoeq 

 hardly shining above pale glaucous brown beneath when dry, "^^^^ 

 oblique much reticulated, peduncles \—\ in. E. indicum, BeddomeJ^jor. 

 Splvat. t.8h Sethia indica, i)a Prorfr. i. 576 ; Wall. Cat. 68^81 W.d: a. 

 Prodr. 106 i WigU III t. 48. 



Hilly parts of the Western Peninsula, Rottler, &c. ; Ceylon, in hot dry parts of t e 

 Island. 



A shrub with pale bark. Leaves the smallest of the Indian species, always ^*^^^ .» 

 less cuneate-obovate, the primary nerves hardly distinguishable from the seconuc ^ 

 and these last not connected with an evident intraraarginal one ; petiole s?"*^^*°^^V*gg|y 

 —-The Ceylon specimens have lai^er leaves and longer pedicels. This is very c 

 allied to, if not identical with, an Eastern African species. 



2. B. Kunthianum, Wall, Cat. 6849 {Sethia ?); leaves 2^3i by 

 ^liin. elliptic-lanceolate rarely elliptic-obovate acute or ^^^?J1" „ 

 rarely obtuse or rounded at the tip opaque above pale g^^^^^"^ /!;«t 

 beneath when dry with a reddish midrib, nerves sub-horizontal very i^ 



f E. Kunthianum, Kiirz in Joum. Benn, Adat Soc. xli. pt. ii. 294. 



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Eastern Bexgal, and Khasia hills, alt. 3-5000 ft. ; ? Martaban, Kurz, -^^ 



A shrub, 3-6 ft. Leaves very faintly reticulate on both surfaces, *J^® .®^ n-„«« 

 nerves not collected into an obvious intramarginal nerve; petiole very short. ^^^ 

 \ in, long, slender, equalling the pedicel.— I have not seen Kurz's specimens. ' :.,;;^ 



Var. ? Parishii; leaves smaller \\ in. acute pale with more prominent nerves. 

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i'tl E. burmanicum, Grif. Notul.iy. 468 ; Tc. Plant Adat.t -^^^^ -^ 

 (/?(wer) ; a _tree, leaves 1-2^ by f-i^ in. obovate -oblong or obovaie 





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