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A tree. Young Iranches angular. Leaves 6 by l|-2 in., glabrous, very acute at the 

 apex, less so at tlie base; petiole \ in. Pedicels \ in. J^picalyx cup-shaped, scarcely 

 lobed. Corolla 4 in., yellow, fragrant, tubnlar-canipanulate, limb 5-lobed ;^ lobes valvate, 

 ovate-acute, hairy within. Stamens and ovary as in S. fragrans. — This differs from 

 S.fragrans in its broader leaves, shorter pedicels, and much larger flowers. 



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In the herbanum are specimens from Griffith collected in Bhotan (n. 1819), wmCT 

 are very imperfect, but which apparently belong to a third species of Sch<jepfia, chamc- 

 terized by short ovate or oblong-acute leaves, with closer venation than in S.fragran$ 

 or S. acuminata. ■ 



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Climbing slirabs, sometimes spiny. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolea,, 

 1-nerved. Flowers bracteate, m dense axillary spikes, monochlamy-- 

 deous, hermaphrodite. Perianth regular, 4-5-parted, lobes valvate. Jfertue 

 stamens as many as the lobes of the perianth, and opposite to tliem, nla- 

 ments glabrous, free, or adnate at the base to a thickened disk ; antiJers 

 small, oblong, adnate, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Stamino(ks (glancw 

 of disk) 4-5, tiypogynous, alternate with the stamens, ovoid or subtrianguiar, 

 fleshy. Ovaru s\me.r\or. nvn\c\-ocn\oa\ ^ .npllprl • stvlpr-vlindric. stiema capitate 



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iwua. V, u,u urupaceous, surrounaea at tne case oy ine niarueoi.cui' t^i^.y^' 

 stone bony.. Seed solitctry, erect, roundish ; embryo in the upper part ol ivx 



fleshy albumen, radicle superior, cotyledons sometimes 3 very long plai 

 convex.— DiSTEiB. Species 3-4, natives of Tropical Asia and Austraha. 



. _tn the description of the ovary 'and seed I have followed Griffith, as my o^^f f'^°"f 

 coincide with his. Bentham finds a true calyx, which others have not been able to se , 

 nor have 1 been able to detect one. Miers says the ovary is 4-celled at the base, Dui 

 have only seen it 1-celled, as Bentham describes it. Many authors, including Meissne 

 and Miers, place this genus in Thymelacete, &n arrangement I mJ^e'^ fe*", out ' 

 detault of more certainty as to the real structure of the flower, the genus is here rewi" , , 



in Olacinece. 



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1. C. Rheedil, Gmel. Svsf. i. 280 : leaves glabrous ovate or oWong- 

 lauceolate, spikes axillary solitary or twin. Wall. Cat. 1043, B; WigMf, 

 « *®^/. ' S^^d.. Flor. Sylvat. Anal Gen. t. xxvi. ; Thwaites Enum.^ 25i ;. 

 Srandis For. Flw. 75. C. scandens, Roxh. Cor. Fl. 103 ; Fl. Iwi-. ^' tt^ 

 C. malabanca, Lamk. Diet iii. 433. C. zizyphifolia, Grif. Notul.i^. ^w, 

 t. 5.J7, t. 1. C. martabanica. Wall. Cat. 12m. Salvadora persica, WM 

 1042, not of Linn. Olax % sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ,f «PP/- „.,, 

 Oi.ilia amentacea, Wall. Cat. 2331. Struthiola scandens. Wall. Cat. 23^1 

 Lheede llort. Mai. vii. t. 2, 4. 



Upper Gangetic plain, in forests of Oude ; Western Fexinsula, from t^'^ Conca^ 

 and Uekkan southwards. Eastern Peninsula, in Martaban and Malacca.-1^"TK. 



Indian Archipelago, Hong Kong, N. Australia. - ' ■'.^ 



A c imbin- evergreen shrub. Branches divaricate sometimes spiny, yo^ng^ „ ^ 



as well as the inflorescence petioles and tube of flower, pubescent. ^'^nyK^.,,^ 





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