584 XXXIX. OLACINE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 



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i?a^. I pt. i. 784 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal Gen. t. ix. f. 3. 0. javanica, Mi^. Fl 

 Ind.Bat. i, pt. i. 174. Ximenia 1 olacoides, W. & A. Prodr. i. 89. . :,.q 



Western PK^•l^'SL-LA; Northern Circars, Roxburgh; Pulney Mt?., W^ght; reou, 

 Knrz; Ceylon, in hot dry parts of the island, Thwaites.—V^Tm^^ Islands ot tne 

 Archipelago, tropical AuRtraha and Africa. "\']^. 



A low scrambling shrub, or small weak tree; herbaceous portions puberulous.. 

 Leaves 2-4 by 1^-2 in., coriaceous, glabrous, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, entire, l-J^erv^d, 

 arch-nerved, base tanenng; petiole ^-4 in. Racemes 1-1 4 in., erect, before fiowenng 

 lesenabling cones, mowers crowded. Bracts imbricate, at first concealing ^the "owers, 

 peltate, roundish, deciduous. Pedicels ^V ^"-^ pnberulous. Flowers 4 in. ^^^i/* 

 minnte. Petals 5, deciduous, each jV i"-, oblong, obtuse, alternating with the lobes w 

 the calyx. Glands (staminodes?) oblong, obtuse, half the length of the etam^"^' 

 Drvpe ovoid or globose. Emhryo linear nearly as long^ as the albumen.— 15eaao me 

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ely cohering, witliout an inflexed point and with no prominent niidn»- 

 m 5, hypogynous, free, alternate with the petals, filaments fiat, fli|f^ -: 



Shrabs or trees, sometimes scandent. Leaves petioled, alternate, ^^P|^ 

 .-nerved, coriaceous. Cymes axillary, stalked. Flowers dicblamydeoiis, "^™^ 

 phrodite or unisexual CoZya: minute, cup-shaped, 4-5-lobed. FetaU 4rO,v:ee 



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above, hairy behind, hairs 'curving over the anther in the bud] ^^^'^^I^ 

 adnate, 2-lobed, dehiscing lengthwise. Hypogynous disk cup-shaped, mor , 

 or less lobed. Ovary ovoid, 1-celled, tapering intoa subulate style, t^^^^^J:!^^^^ ' 

 by a minute stigma ; ovules 2, pendulous. 'Frmt drupaceous ; s^^'^f , ^^3 

 outside, woody within, -beet^ pendulous ; embryo in albumen, ^flff^J" 

 leafy broad, radicle superior (Thwaites).— DlSTRiB. fcspecies 4-5,1 Aincd , 

 thp^others Malayan. 



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Kew Jonrn 

 110 ; (Jontrio. 

 1. 305. ? S. secundiflorus, ^w7H« 5y(^. 649. Lasianthera secundinor-*^. , ^ 

 Mi/jf. Fl. Ind. Bat. Svppl. i. t. ii. 7 ^ I'^^fc; 



Ceylon; in damp forests, alt. 1-3000 ft., Thmitcs.—Vimi^i^. Borneo. _ ,, X.: '< 

 A large tree. Branches terete, glabrous. Leaves 4-6 by_2-3_in., ct>naceous,_b^^^. ,^ .^ 



i-i in. Peduncles about as 



liTOus, midnb depressed above, proBiinent beneath, base tapering into a shoit F ^^^ 

 ^ ^ ^ ^, i long as the petiole, axillary, Bubsoiitary, ^^"f.' ^*^^,/.ig' 



--12 fl. Flowers greenisli-purple. Cahjx cup-ehaped, 5-lobed, lobes rouiidisn, J- .^ 

 3 or 4 times longer than the calyx, ovate or roundish. Stamens as long a8 or \onpj^^„^ 

 the petals. 

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Orary ovoid, surrounded by an hypogynous cupular lobuhite "^^'^'^ 7 jj^se 

 subulate style, stigma nnnute. Drupe Ubyf in., stone woody /a^ 

 mesocarp fibrous. Testa consohdated with tlie pericarp. Embryo half the s^^® ?,. ,g 

 acumen; cotyledons leafy, cordate-ovate, acute, as long as the superior rau . 

 (Thwaites,) . ^ .---y^ 



2. Z.. malaccensis, i/a^i. ; leaves oblong-lanceolate abruptly acuffli-^ 

 nate, calyx puberulous, petals coherent. 



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A, scanJent slirub (Maingay). Leaves 44-54 by 2 in., coriaceous, gl*J'™"^'.!5ked ; 

 proimnent, secondary nerves obscnre ; petiole scarcely 4 in. Cymes a''"'*'"^'^^^nJin2. 

 poduncle compressed, as long as the petiole ; pedicels shorter than the flowers, asceu ^^^ 

 Flowers \m. Cahjx shallow, lobes deltpiij acute. :>JPetaU 4-5 timei l«»ger '"7 flat, 

 calyx, slightly coherent;' eiternaTly glaWus, linear, spottel J^ithin. F^vmU *f 





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