Phalería.] CXXX. THYMELEACEZ, (J. D. Hooker.) 199 
9. PHALERIA, Jack. 
Trees. Leaves opposite. Flowers 2-sexual, in terminal or lateral sessile 
heads; bracts involucriform, leafy, deciduous. Perianth-tube elongate; 
lobes 4-6, spreading; scales 0. Stamens 8-12, 2-seriate, exserted, filaments 
filiform; anthers small. Disk cupular or annulate. Ovary 2-celled; style 
filiform, stigma capitate. Drupe naked, succulent or fleshy, endocarp 
coriaceous or hard, 1-2-celled. Testa thin; albumen 0.—Species about 8, 
Eastern Asiatic, Malayan and Australian. 
P. cauliflora, Benth. in: Gen. Pi. iii. 199; quite glabrous, leaves 
-9 in. shortly petioled oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate caudate-acuminate , 
base acute, flowers in subsessile heads on the sides of the branches, perianth 
glabrous, margins of lobes pubescent. Beddome For. Man. 180, t. 25, f. 5. 
Tymispermum cauliflorum, Phwaites Enum. 251. 
CEYLON; in the Pasdoon Corle, Thwaites. . 
A small elegant tree, with long subpendulous branches. Leaves shining, green, 
rather membranous, base acute; nerves very slender, 8-10 pair, rather arched; 
petiole 3 in, Perianth 3 in. long, tube slender, lobes rounded. Fruit } in. long, 
feshy A5 broad, obliquely obovoid or turgid, subacute, narrowed into a short stipes, 
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10. GYRINOPS, Gert. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, shinàng. Flowers 2-sexual, in terminal sub- 
Panicled umbels, ebracteate. Perianth-tube slender; lobes 5, spreading ; 
scales above the stamens connate in a ring. Stamens 5; anthers subsessile, 
unective very thick. Disk 0. Ovary long-stalked, 2-celled; style subu- 
Seed Stigma ovoid. Capsule stipitate, compressed, loculicidally 2-valved. 
eds ovoid, with a long tail-like appendage, testa crustaceous, inner coat 
ck, albumen 0.— Species 2, a South Indian and Moluccan. 
du Wella, Gertn. Fruct. ii. 276, t. 140; glabrous except i silky 
S and young foliage, leaves oblong or elliptic caudate-acuminate, nerv 
Yety slender, Meissn in DO. Prodr xiv. 602; Hook. Ie. Pl.t.5; Wight 
^ t. 1850; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 303. 
Crrtoy, common in the warmer parts. . a 
tree with slender branches and yellowish foliage of a light brown when dry. 
nna 2-3 in., very variable in breadth, base acute; nerves mere striations, trans- 
Po > very closely placed ; petiole very short. Umbels few-fld., very shortly peduncled, 
end i in. long; tube slender, acute at the base; lobes very short, rounded, 
the cent within. —In Gen. Plant. iii. 200, this is erroneously said to be a native of 
n Peninsula, 
11. AQUILARIA, Lamk. 
ees Leaves alternate ; nerves slender, parallel. Flowers 2-sexual, in 
Pa lary and terminal eduncled or subsessile umbellules, ebracteate. 
$ “han” campanulate ; lobes 5, broad, spreading ; scales above the stamens 
" ary, connate at the base. Stamens 10; anthers subsessile, oblong ; 
feet] ive broad. Disk 0. Ovary subsessile, villous, perfectly or imper- 
or Je celed ; stigma large, subsessile. Capsule compressed, oblanceolate 
Gyr; vate, loculicidal ; ericarp coriaceous or hard and woody. Seeds o 
“¢Ps.— Species 2 or 3 E. Asiatic, Malayan and Chinese. 
l. A. Agallocha, Rox}. Cat, 33, and Fl. Ind. ii.422 ; nearly glabrous 
