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Gomphandra.] 



XXXIX. OLAciNE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 



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btemonurus prasinus, Blurm Mus. Bot i. 249. S. affinis, Mkrs 

 H Lasianthera prasina, Jiz^. FL Ind. Bat. i. 791. 



Malacca, Griffith, 31aingay. 

 A tree or shrub. 



DisTRiB. Java. 



A>//- i" 'i — "- Branches angular, tortuous. Leaves S^-U in., petiole A-l in. 

 lobp P"^^8cent. Calyx 4-5-toothed. Corolla A in., tubular-campanulate, 4-5-lobed, 

 lam 7"^ -j^^^^ Filaments hairy at the back near the top. Ovary cvlindric : stierma 

 J ft' a^scoid. Fruit oblong-obovate, narrowed at the base, s 



of the stigma. 



surmounted by the remains 



,^. - , ^^^d solitary, integument brown, traversed by the raphe, albumen 



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ext* ^'.jP^^^^S'lana, TFaZ?. Cat. 7204; leaves oblong- acuminate, cymes 

 r.^ ^^^^? ^^y ^^^^^ much branclied exceeding tlie petiole. Stemonurus 

 Penangianus, Mkrs Contnb. I 90. ' -. 



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mar ' Shoots terete, yellowish, glabrous. Leaves 54 by 2 in., coriaceous, glabrous, 



^ (wJ?^ revolute, base tapering ; petiole I in. Peduncles 1 in. and upwards, setulose, 

 p^|^^^*^"^ous, ultimate pedicels shorter than the flower. Flower J in. Cali/x 



mh4^K^fi '^~^~^^^^^^^- Corolla many times longer than the cal^-x, funnel-shaped ; 

 g /. "^'^-fid, lobes acuminate inflexed at the point, midrib prominent on the inner 

 rudf*^^' ^^^^^^^ '^5, free, hypogynous, filaments flat, hairy at the back. Pistil 

 conM^^^k"* ^^^^LE fl. : Ovary very short, 5-angled, depressed at the top ; style 

 desc^'h '^ ^'^^> 5-toothed at the apex (Miers). Lnmature fruit { in., ovoid.—Miers 

 whi V *^ ^^c flowers of Wallich's plant as hermaphrodite. In GriflSth's specimens, 

 (Bon f ^^ *^*^herwi8e indistinguishable, they are unisexual. Arnott in Ann. des Sc. Nat. 

 Lo^ J^^**' "■ 236, says, this plant does not belong to Gomphandra, but he 

 ^ason for this conclusion. 



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«.. . • tomentella. 3Iast. : leaves pubescent beneath oblonoj-Ia 



gives no 



11.298. 



J'f A, Griffith. 



Arborescent, 

 t^f ose. Leaves 

 r^-toothed. 



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Shoots, petioles, under surfece of leaves and inflorescence yellow- 



4^5 X. — ^^es 6-7 by 1-1 J in. ; petiole { in. Flowers J in. Calyx cup-shaped, 



exaert^ !r' ^-^^^^'^ 4-6-parted, pubescent externally, lobes acute, inflexed. Stamens 



^^4er ^^^®"*« pilose at the apex, behind and slightly so in front beneath the 



• Ovary oblong, pilosulous, surmounted by a large discoid stigma. • - 



miiiat '^ crassipes, Mast.; leaves lanceolate or oblong-Ian ceolate acu- 

 5j„'f^' pedicels pilose. Stemonurus? crassipes, Kut-z in Journ. As. Soc. 

 ./y- 1872, u. 298. 



^^^^, Kurz. 



Ajhrub or small tree. Leaves 5-7 by 2 



Ci/ffi;r .,, ^^^^^ tree. Leaves 5-7 by 2 in., subconaceous, giaurous , peuu.c 3-5 .... 

 M^k''?"'':-^'' *» long as the petiole, pedicels }^m. Calyx coriaceous, cup-shaped, 

 ^l i ^^ipature fruit J-J in., turbinate, glabrescei.t, purplish, surrounded at the 

 ;, J the persistent calyx. — Imperfect specimens only known. 



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E. Meyer. 



bla^P or shrubs. 



Zeaws alternate, petiolate, simple, coriaceous, usually 

 t'«/„^ -.--J "'6. Flowers small, in terminal or axillary corymbose cymes. 

 alternT^^^^' ^up-shaped, 5-toothed. Petals 5, free, valvate. ^^amerw 5, 



triangul 



<»^es 



celled, obliquely gibbous.' style excentric, curved, stigma small ; 

 ' pendulous, superposed.^ IPrMI'.ejpbliquely ovoid, compressed, stone 



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