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Trees and shru'bs. Leaves petiolate, ovate or elliptic. Peduncles short, rather 

 thick. Flowers small, in short SK^hotomous axillary branching cymes, sessile 

 «Bd often crowded. Calyx-tube minutely bracteate at the base ; limb 5-8-lobed, 

 campanulate : lobes erect, short, valvate. Petals 5-8, inserted on the margin of 

 a crenulated disk lining the calyx-tube, clawed, orbicular, 2-fid or entire, sub- 

 serrate or lacerate at the apex. Disk epigynous, 10-16-lobed. Stamens in- 

 serted with the petals, filaments filiform ; anthers small, oblong. Style subulate 

 or filiform. Ftmit small, globose, coriaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed globose- 

 reniform ; testa fibrous ; embryo curved. — ^Distrib. Species about 7, natives of 

 the Indian Ocean. 



1. C. Integrerrima, DC. Prodr. iii. 33; leaves quite entire or rarely 

 serrulate towards the apex obovate elliptic or oblong, flowers usually 8-merous 

 cymoso-capitate, petals not embracing the filaments. Wtyht III, t. 90 ; PentL 

 ^nJ<mrn.Linn. Soe. iii. Q7 ] Bedd. Ft. Syli\ t cxciii.j Dalz. ^- Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 ^o ; Brand. For. FL 219. 0, cevlanica, corymbosa and sinensis, Am. in Tayl. 

 Am. Nat. Hist. i. 371. 0. luc'ida, Kurz For, Fl Bnt. Burm. i. 451 ; Wall. 

 ^. 4880 ; Wtffht Ic. t. 605. 0. timorensis, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 128 (ex char.). 

 U octopetala, F. MuelL PI Aust. Trop. Occid. 0. symmetrica, Blu7ne Mus. 

 ^ot. i. l30. Pootia cereopsifolia, Miq. PI. Ilochst. 



Forests of the outer Sikkim Himalaya, Bengal. Assam, Silhet, Burmah, both 

 ■tBJnNsuLAs and Ceylon. — Disthib. Malay Archipelago, China, Australia. 

 . An evergreen tree with very lucid foliage. Flowers small, -w-hite. Berry globose, 

 Size of a peppercorn, usually 1 -seeded. — The leaves vary excessively. The Cingalese spe- 

 cimens are often all obovate and very obtuse; in some Chinese and Philippine Islands 

 ones they are narrow-oblong and acuminate; in tJie majority from the greater part of 

 N \v*^^' ^z-» Ceylon and the Indian Peninsulas, China, the Indian Archipelago and 

 ^' y. Australia, they are elliptic-orate. Bentham (Journ. Liun. Soc. 1. c.) has shown 

 S^o. cause for setting aside Roxburgh's specific name of C. lucida. 



, 2. c. lanceaefolia, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 481 ; leaves elliptic or oblong regu- 

 ^ly serrulate, flowers 6-8-merous subcapitate, petals embracing the filaments. 

 ilHff^ Ic. iii. t. fi04 . /r«>- 7^n>- m T^riL Burm, i. 437 ; Wight Ic. t. 604. 



Moxb. Cor. PL iii. t. 211 : Wiuht 



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^- confinis, Blume Mus, Bot. i. 129. 0. lucida, Boxb. Cor. PL iii. t. 211 ; 

 •'^- HI. t. 605. 0. lanceolaria, Wall Cat. 4881. 



Tropical forests of Tenasserim, ^wr^-.— Disteib. Sumatra. 

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*^^er than the preceding, turbinato-globose, 2-3-s 



3. C. calycina, Thwaites Enum. 121 ; leaves ovate or elliptical quite 

 Sddl* P^^^^^s rather long dichotomous, cymes slightly branching above the 



Cbylon, Singh Rajah forest, between Galle and Riitnapoora, at no great elevation, 



, A great tree. Leaves lJ-3 by 1-lf in., ovate, shortly acuminate, narrowed at the 

 ^e, punctate beneath ; petiole ^i in. ; stipules about | in. very deciduous. Brae 

 pes rounded, retuse, often mucronate, about ^ in. Flowers subsessile, J in. diam. 

 ^rV^-lohes 4. equalling the tube. Petals broadly cordate, clawed, margm mciso- 



^^e. Ovary 4-celled ; stigma crenate. 

 ^; Var. 5. Thwaites 1. c - leaves shorter mote rounded and coriaceous. Central Fro- 

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