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Ochamstachys.\ xxxix. olacine^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 677 



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J6t accrescent ? Petals 4-5, free, valvate, hairy within. Stavwns 12-15, 

 JyP'>gynous, or adherent to the base of the petals, or arranged in groups of 

 6 betore the petals, tihiments subulate, glabrous ; anthers minute, di.lymous, 

 Tn^^^ ^^"gitudinally. Staminodes 0. Disk hypogynous, fleshy, very 

 Shallow, annular, or inconspicuous. Ovary free, ovoi' I, incompletely :5-celled 

 ^^,^^^*h) 1 -eel led above; style cvlindric, stigma minute capitate obscurely 

 '5-lobed; ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous from the apex of a central 

 placenta. Fruit unknown.— Distrib. Species 1 or 2 natives of 'the Malay 

 peninsula and Borneo. In technical characters allied to Ximenki, but dif- 

 renng in habit, arrangement of the leaves, inflorescence and number of 

 'Stamens. The name refers to the thong-like inflorescence. : . 



1. O. amentacea. Mast ; leaves oblong acuminate, base acute,' spikes 

 anout as long as the leaves. . - 



Malacca, i¥a%ffy, Griffith.— DmrRiB. Borneo; 

 ranches terete. Leaves 5-6 by 2| in., coriaceous, glabrous, quite entire, l-nerved, 

 ten^H' u*^ pairs of nerves about 5, rather distant, arching; petiole J in. Flower-bud 

 wndish-oblong. Flowers ^V i^- Oalt/x puberulous. Stamens ^ shorter than the 





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4. CT£irOZ.OPKON, Oliv. 



/ Arees. X^OTes opposite, petiolate', simple, l-nerved. /??^a?T5c^nce panicled- 

 ^ffiose, terminal. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, dichlamydeous. Colyx 

 ?"Parted; lubes imbricate, not accrescent. Petals 5, free, imbricate, oblong, 

 enexed after flowering. Stamens 10, free, springing from a short, ring-like 

 yp<>gynous disk, those opposite the petals longer than the others; anthers 

 ^undish, apiculate, 2-celled, dehiscing lengtliwise. Staminodes 0. Ovaru 

 ^% shortly stalked, imperfectly 2-celled : style cylindric, apex bifid, 

 Jignias capitate; ovules in pairs in each cell, collateral, pendulous. Fruit 

 ^^J^^ous or crustaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded, dehiscing irregularly. Seed 



Pendnl 



^^n^lous froin the apex of a free central placenta, and provided with 



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pectinate crest. — Distrib, 2 known species, both Malayan. 



ell f^* Parvifolius, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxyiii. 516, t. 43; leaves 

 Jiiptic shortly and obtusely acuminate, ovarian cavity reaching nearly to 



^*^^base of the style. 



^j«fancA&^5 glabrous, purplish. Leaves 2-A\ by 1J-1| in., coriaceous, glabrous, 

 ^^^"S ^bove, reticulate beneath, base rounded ; petiole ^-i in., channelled.^ Inflores- 

 jt|f ^^*^ut the length of the leaves, cano-tomentose, panicled-cymose ; pedicels short, 

 :^^^- Bracts ^\ in., caducous, ovate, deltoid. Flowers i in. Calyx-lobes roundish, 

 tL^^?' ^^"lentose outside, subglabrous within. Petals 5, erect, four times longer than 

 ^jj^^. ^^-lobes, coriaceous, oblong, recurved, downy outside, except at the overlapped 

 ^^^- Anthers adnate. Ovary ovoid-globose, hirsute, surrounde 1 at the base by an 

 Peri ^^^^^^' 2-celled; style elongate, 2-iurrowed, glabrous. Fruit 4-| in., ellipsoid; 

 ^^T* woody, crustaceous, splitting on one side. Seeds with an arilloid crest. 



mi^ ?■ Srandlfoltus, OUv. Icl; leaves oblong shortlv and obtusely acu- 

 J^^te, ovarian cavity scarcely exceeding in length the hypogynous disk. 



ftidril ^ ^* terete, glabrous. Leaves 3^-7 by I4-24 in., conaceous, glabrous, entire, 

 no nr/%rv^,vj-i t ., ... ... "' ort)us 01: pfuinose. Inflorescence 6ub- 



nodes, pedicels exceeding the calyx. 



ceoTis *^^'^"'^^'^^> caducous^^-^ &i?^/« equal, roundish, concave, coria- 



^ ^^no-tomcntose outside, glabrous within. Pduh 5-6 timoi longer than the 



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