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r^20. S. floribunda, Wight lU. i. 134; flowers small umbellate in di-tri- 

 cnotomous cymes: S. densiflora, Wall. Cat, 4224. S. longifolia, Wall. Cat. 

 4225. B>.-^om\Ux&,W.<i; A. Prodr. 105.1 non Wall. : 



^SiLHETj^ De Siha; Assam and the Khasia Mts., Chimh, &c. ; Tenasseeim, at 



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A scandent shrub. Leaves 3-6 by |-2| in., elliptic-lanceolate, shortly and obtusely 

 p"°?]°^*e.' serrate, subcoriaceons, shining. Fetals orbicular. Ovules 2 in each cell 

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A small glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, entire or cre- 

 mate j stipules minute, deciduous/ Fedundes HxillsLvyf short, 3-4-flowered. 

 talyx S-cleft. Petals 5, spreading. Didc not distinct from the base of the 

 ' P^,y^; Stamens 5, connivent round the pistil, filaments ilattened. Ovary 

 l^^u immersed in the disk, conical, the summit hollowed out and stigma- 

 tose m the cavity round a central column, cells numerous in 2-4 series • 

 ^A^ solitary in each cell, ascending and pendulous. Drupe globose, hard 

 ^nd fleshy, with numerous 1-seeded bony stones superposed in rings round 

 9 Tu^^* axis, testa membranous, albumen sub-horny.— Distrib. Species 

 2; Malayan Peninsula, Java, Australia. 



-Mr. Bentbam in bis Flora Australiensis remarts ibat tlie ovary roTist probably bo 

 '■^garded as being 5-celled, with many ovules in each cell separated by spurious trans- 

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• 1. S. celastrineus, Griff, in Cede. Jowni. Nat. Hid. iv. 247, t 14; 

 nail. Cat. 9019 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I pt. ii. 592 : Eoohf. in Tram. Linn. 

 %.xxii. t. 2a Asfc^gyne coriacea, 1F^«.'^«^^^^ . ..v!^ v,'»iv^-.«-^ 



■TEGu, KuTz; Penano, G^r/^^A,— Distrib. Java. 



J^eaves 4-8 by 2-2^ in., oblong or oblong^Uiptic, acute or subacuroinate, crenate- 

 •errate, coriaceous. Fedundes under 1 in. Flowers yellowish. Fruit globose, 1-1 J io. 



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Shrubs or trees, erect or scandent (cirrhose in Gouania). Branches nn- 

 ^rmed spinous or aculeate. Leaves simple, alternate (opposite or sub- 

 opposite in Scutia and Sageretia) usually coriaceous, often 3-5-nerved • sti- 

 Piiles small, deciduous or chanfired into prickles. Flowers hermaphrodite or 

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erect or recurved, usually carinate within, valvate. Petals ,, , 



Inserted on the throat of the calyx-tube, usually shorter than its lobes, 

 cucuUate or inyolute. Stamens 4-5, inserted with the petals and opposite 



5^ them, often enclosed within their folds | anthers versatile, 2-celled, 

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s, small, greenish, in lax or dense axillary 

 disoosed in spikes or panicles. Calyx 4-5-fid 



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^d lining it,%ntire or lobed, glabrous,' rarely tomentose. Ovary sessile, 

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