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586 . XXXIX. OLACINE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) iGomphandrd:- 



1. Cr. axillaris, Wall Cat 3718 ; leaves lanceolate, cymes axillary about 

 the length of the petiole, flowers unisexual or polygamous. Jiedd, Fl,^ 

 Sylv. 1x1. Lasianthera 1 tetrandra, Wall in Koxh. Pi. Ind. ed. Carey, ii 327.; 

 Platea axillaris, Thwaites Enum. 44 ; Dalz, ^ Gibs, Bomb. FL 28. Stemo- 

 nurus axillaris, longifolius, Heyneanus, aiid ceylanicus, Mien Co^^^r^-}: 

 90-93. S. polymorphus, Mien I.e. i. 87, partly. Olax Heyneana, WoLL 

 Cat. 6780. 0. longifolia, Wall Gat. 6782, A partly, 6782 B. Goniphandra 

 polymorpha, Wight Ic. 954, 9 7?ar^/v.— Uicecia pentandra, Wall. Cat. 

 6780 B. 





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SiLHET, Wallich; Western Peninsula from the Concan southwards; Ceylo??, 

 from the sea level to 4000 ft., TAwjmto. , > ■'^> ^ 



A small tree or large shrub, glabrous, or the terete branches slightly puherulotig. 

 Leaves 2^-5^ by 1-2^ in., subniembranous, conspicuously nerved, base acute; petiole 

 \-\ in. Cymes puberulous. Calyx minute, 4-5-toothed, slightly ciliated. Corolla. 

 4r-5 times longer than the calyx, tubular-campanulate, limb 4-5-lobed; lobes ovate, 

 acuminate, point inflexed, ultimately speading. Filaments flat, pilose at the a|)ex. 



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i in., oblong, obtuse, smooth, crowned by the remains of the stigma. Seed Ur^» 

 integument striated ; cotyledons very large, semicylindric, amygdaloid, obtuse, radicle . 

 superior (Wallich). — Wallich describes the stigma as fleshy, broadish, subcapitate, 

 but my own examination of Wallich's specimens agrees with that of Miers ae- 

 scription and figure. What Wallich took for the stigma may thus be the epigj-uous 

 disk of which Miers elsewhere makes mention. The Silhet habitat is derived irom 

 Wallich's specimen of his number 6782. There is no other authority ibr this plan^^ 

 occurring in Eastern India. '/ '' '' 



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Western Peninsula, Nilghiri Mts., Wight; Cevlos. ,. , ,V' nnbe-^ 



A small tree or lar^e shrub, glabrous, or the young parts and leaves shglitlj P"" ^ , 

 rulous Leaves 2-6 by i-2i m., more or less coriaceous, opaque, inconspicuous 7 

 veined; petiole i-J in. Cy/nes puberulous. i^Zou-'er-Jwrfs oblong-clavate. Flo'vers t}^^K 

 4-5-merous, hermaphrodite or unisexual. Calyx minute. Corolla cauip. inula te, w . 

 acuminate, points inflexed. Stamens glabrous or slightly puberulous, free, <"■,; l. ;. 

 mately agglutinated into a tube, at length ex.serted. Ovary on an hypo^ynous ai, j . 

 style short, conic, stigma minute. Fruit A-2 in., oblong or obovoid, reddish-brow • _ 

 The plant figured by Wight Icon. 953, as the male of this species has, as shown, ne^ 

 maphrodite flowers, and the stamens are destitute of hairs. Miers in consequence, re ^^ 

 It to his Platea Wlghtiann, but it diflers from Flatea in the coherent pe*."" 

 acute, not discoid, stigma. It is apparently the same form as Wight's O. coriacea- 

 Z^. l^l'^^^^y- )^'>g''t HI- P- 103, distingm-shes the followii.g varieties :— . i^a\A: 



acuminata 

 linear acumen. 



Var. 2. ohlun 



Var. 3. angas 



base acute. 



ffifolia, leaves Unear-oblong obtuse at both ends abruptly ^^^^'"^•iiaJV^ 

 istifolia, leaves 5-7 by 1-2 in. narrow linear-lanceolate acum 



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longifolia, leaves 5-7 by 1-2 in. linear acuminate, base rounded. ^— 



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cjines axillary 2 



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i(as<. ; leaves glabrous pblong-lanceoIaW, Da« ^-^g. 



flowers hermap 





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