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7- XXONANTKES, Jack. (lxionB.nth.es, Auct) 



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■ Glabrous trees, turning black in drying. Leaves alternate, entire or cre- 

 nate-serrate, nerves reticulate ; stipules minute or 0. Flowers small, m 

 axillary cymosedicliotomouspeduncled panicles. Sepals 5-6, shortly connate 

 at the base. Petals 5-6^ perigynous, contorted, persistent, hardened round 

 the fruit. Stamens 10--20, inserted on the outside of a perigynous annular 

 or cupular eglandular disk. Ovary free, 5-6-celled, cells sometimes 

 2-locellate ; style simple, stigma capitate lobed ; ovules two in each celJ, 

 Capsule coriaceous or woody, oblong or conic, septicidal, carpels opening 

 inward. Seeds (according to Griffith) winged or crowned with a '^^^^^' 

 form aril, albumen fleshy ; embryo lateral, cotyledons foliaceous, radicle 

 superior.— DiSTKiB. Species 6-8, all tropical Asiatic, and chiefly Ma- 



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leaves obqvate or obovate-oblong obtuse quite entire or crenate narroweq 

 into a very short petiole, stamens 10-20, capsule f by i in. very "^^J"^^ 

 ovoid. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat i. pt. 2, 494. I. dodecandra, Griff. Flam. 

 Cajitor. 12. Gordonia ? peduncularis. Wall Cat. 4409, Hypericinea dentata, 

 Wall Cat. 4832. Pierotia lucida, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 180. Brewstera 

 crenata, Roem. Synops. i. 141, Macharisia icosandra, Planch mss.—trrij. 

 Notul. iv. 498; Ic. PI Asiat. t 589, f. 2. ■'' 



Penang, Wallich; Malacca, Griffith, Maingay ; Sincapore, ioJJ. — D'STbib.^ 

 Sumatra. ' , , 



^A small tree. Leaves 3-7 by 14-2 in., very variable, always narrowed into tne 

 petiole, which varies from ■^\ in., brown when dry, shining on both surfaces, ™*/^" 

 thickened, nerves very slender almost horizontal, tip obtuse rounded or emargmat . 

 Pedandes slender, straight, often exceeding the leaves. Flowers about ^ m- lon§. 

 —Without authentic specimens the identity of this with Jack's plant cannot beven- 

 fied. Though it differs from his description in the usually small leaves, ^and m the otten 

 fewer stamens, I have followed my predecessors in referring it to his L icosandra. Jac 

 describes the flpwers as 5-6merous. The pedicels appear to elongate very mucn 

 the bud advances, and up to the ripening of the fruit. There are perhaps two variene ,^ 

 one with peduncles shorter than the leaves, and longer pedicels. 



2. I. cuneata, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. Suppl I 484 ; leaves oblong-spathu- 

 late or obovate-oblong obtuse quite entire or crenate narrowed ^^^^^11 

 short petiole, cymes peduncled, stamens about 10, capsule turgid r^ ^ 

 i in. broadly ovoid. 



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1 rotain this species with great doubt, the foliage and flowers appear to be i^^°^|^ 

 vith those of 7. icosandra, but the capsule is very much broader for its length, x a 

 seen two Sumatran specimens thus named by Miquel himself, of which one a'.^"^ . j 

 these broad capsules ; the other appears to be in this as in every other respect, ^*J^^"^^ 

 with /. icosandra. Miquel does not describe the capsule, and I hence do not k , 

 which he meant to be 7. cuneata. , . . 



3. X. khaslana, 77oo^. /. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate ob 

 mrite entire narrowed into a slender petiole, nerves very ol 

 slender shorter than the leaves, cymes dense-flowered. Hj 

 culosa, Wall Cat. 4826. ■ ^ t . 



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 1 Similar in habit to 7 icosandra, but the leaves ar6 of a totally different ^^^ft^jQug; 

 xnpre membranous, and the flowers are twice as large. Leaves 3-4^ in., mernvv^ 



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