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"'Tlowers spicate, racemose or pauicled. 



*-*^ Staminodes 0. Stigma sessile. Al , , , 



Staminodes 5. Styles 2. Albumen flosiy 21. Natsiatcm.'' Ti^ 



Stamens opposite to the petals. Stigma sessile 22, Iodes. 



Staminodes d. Stigma sessile. Albumen 20. SARCOSTtolA. '] 





A milty-Juiced climber. Sepals and petals imbricate. Fruit 



^dry winged. . . ,.....- . 23. Cardiopteris. , ^^ 



1. XXBIBNXA 



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A shrub or low tree. Brandies spiny. Leaves shortly petioled, ^tet- 

 Date, simple, 1-nerved. Flowers racemose, usually hermaphrodite. Cati/jo^ 



■ ■ ' silt, not accresceut. Fetals 4-5, ohlon^ veYO-^ 



4-5 



lute, hairy within. Stamens 



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anthers innate, linear, 2-celled. Staminodes 0. Ovary sessile, superior, 

 4-celled; style columnar, stigma simple; ovules solitary in ^^*^" ^^"' 

 pendulous, anatropous. Drupe ovoid, 1-celled; stone solitary.— DisjKiB. 

 Species, 4-5, 1 Mexican, 1 South African, 1 Bornean, 1 Polynesian, 1 widely 



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dispersed through the Tropics of both hemispheres. 



Baillon (Adansonla, iii. 128) describes the ovules as erect, but I find Jbcm as above 



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Willd. Sp. PI ii. 230 : RoxK Fl. Ind. ii. 252 ;F. ^^• 

 /;^c/, Bat. L pt. i. 787. X RusseUiana, TTa^. C«^ 



L X. axnericana 



Wr. i. 89 : Mia. Fi 



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Eastern and Westerk PilriNsuwio, vyni^uio, rrtj/rtc, jjoig«.«i», * > . 



IsLDfe.,^Mrs; Malacca, Griffith; Ceylon, IViicartcs.— Distrib. Malayan Archipelago, 

 Trop. Africa and America. 



coriaceous 



Brandies spreading glabrous, covered with a red astringent bark, < 

 spine. Young shoots angular. Leaves IJ by 1 in. and upwards, ^^ , 



hrous, ovate-oblong, or roundish, emarginate, base rounded, vernation c^"^"P"^? J 

 petiole i in. Flowers J in., bisexual, sometimes polygamous, white, fragrant, *y^^, . 

 racemes, which are axillary, or on the ends of thicktincd contracted shoots. ^^ . 

 terete, 4-6-flowered. Bracts minute. Buds oblong, acute. Calyx mmute. rei^ 

 many times longer than the caljx, equal to the stamens in length, ^^^^^f ^^"\i^,he 

 Ovary ovoid-oblong, glabrous, longitudinally sulcate, surrounded at the base DV 

 persistent ultimately reSexed calvx ; style as long as the stamens.— The fruit is ea 

 and the wood is used as a substitute for Sandal- wood. This plant is omitted in Xliwau^ 



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EXCLODED SPECIES. 



X. ? 0LACI01DE8, TF. <& A. Prodr.'i.Sd, is Opilia amentacea, Boxh. 



X. ^GYPTiACA, Juss. Gen. 28S ; Jioxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 233, is Balanites Koxburgh" 

 Planch. 



2. OXiAX, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, often scandent, sometimes prickly. Leaves ^^^^V^f^ 



petioled, simple. Racemes axillary, simple, or branched. MracU: W] S 

 Calyx mmute, cup-shaped, truncate or obscurely' toothed, ''^9^^^-':xJ 

 Pttds hypogynous, valvate, more or less coherent, somejtimes 6 m «5 1 ''^j' 

 or 5, 4 coherent, 1 free, rarely 5 or 3 free. Fertile stamens usually .3; ra. v_ 

 4,. 5, generally opposite the edges of the petals and attached to ^f^^^^lt\\Q 

 rarely opposite their centre ; anthers adnate to the filament, CJ^J*. -flV 

 W. dc A.) oblong, 2ceUed, dehiscing longitudinally.' >S;a5wmorfes ^-^^TJ 

 usually opposite the petals. Ovary free, usually surrounded by a SQ'^ 



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