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A small tree, ferruginously pubescent. Leaves oblong, minutely serrulate or" 

 entire, subscabrous above, rufescent with, stellate pubescence beneath. Floicers 

 subsolitary or in dichotomously branched glomerules. Calyx ebracteolate ; limb 

 5-8-fid, recurved^ campanulate above the ovary. Petals 2-6^ tips lacerate. ^ Sta^^' 

 onens 10-12, inserted with the petals on the margin of a crenulated disk lining 

 the calyx-tube, filaments short subulate ; anthers small* Oy«ry with the otti- 

 liferous part inferior, 5-10-celled; style subulate, stigma discoid, 5-1 0-lobed;^ 

 ovules many in each cell, fascicled, pendulous from the axis. F7'uit pisiform or 

 turbinate, black, fleshy, 5-10-celled, many-seeded. Seeds ovoid, testa striated; 

 embryo becoming green, straight, in the axis of the albumen; cotyledons 

 scarcely broader than the terete elongated radicle. 



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Penang and Ma-lacca, Griffith. 

 Leaves 5-8 by 1^-3 in., shortly acuminate, 

 erect. Galyx-tuhe J in. long, densely ferruginously pubescent. 



Flowers small, shortly pedicelled: 



7. GVNOTROCHES, Blume. 



imall; 



Small trees and shrubs. Leaves 6\Aon^ ) stipules deciduous. Floicers^' 

 axillary, fascicled ; pedimcles jointed in the middle. Calyx ebracteolate, 4-0-, 

 partite ; segments valvate, reflexed. Petals 4r-5j inserted below the margin or an 

 8-10-lobed perigynous disk, clawed, spathulate, fimbria te-lacerate. Stamens 

 8-10, inserted in the disk, filaments filiform ; anthers small. Ovary superior,- 

 adhering by abroad base to the calyx, ovoid-globose, 3-G-angled, 3-6-ceuea; 

 style columnar, furrowed, conical at the base ; stigma 3-6-lobed, lobes ^"^^^ 

 nate recurved ; ovules 4 in each cell, ascending, fascicled. Berry globose, 4-t>- 

 celled, manv-seeded. Seeds small, obovoid, testa crustaceous wrinkled, albumen 

 fleshy ; embryo terete.— Dxstrib. Species 2, natives of the Malay Islands. 



axillaris, Miq. FL Ind, Bat. i. pt. i. 69^ ; Blume Mus. M. h 

 127, t. xxxi. ; Kurz. For. Ft. Brit. Burm. i, 451. G. Drj'ptoyetaliun, Bhiine 

 I c. Q. reticulata, A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Explor. Exped. vol. i. 607, ex descr. 

 Dryptopetalura coriaceum, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist. i. 372, Microtropis con- 



1. G. 



acea, Wall Cat. n. 4338. 



SiN'CAPOEE and Penang, Anderson, 

 Lobb.—Qis-vniB. Malay Archipelago. 



Wallkh. Malacca, Griffith. 3lo0i.MEn», 



Leaves 2-5 in., oblong or elliptic, acuminate, coriaceous. Flowers sm^W, numerou » 

 axillury, subdioecious : male with petals and perfect stamens ; ovary often ^"^V^Jl 

 stigma not dilated : female or hermaphrodite flowers with longer pedicels ; Vf'^Yniii 

 stamens often smaller, the latter sometimes effete; stigma radially lobed. /"* 

 baccate, tV4 in. diam. 





8. WEZBEA, Sjyreng. 



^ Trees or shrubs. Leaves ohlong, quite entire or obtusely serrate ; ^tip^^ 

 mterpetiolar, ohlong, deciduous. Fl(ywei*s in axillary 1- or more flowered pe^ 



Calyx with connate tracts ; liral) 4-6-fid, patent. Petals ii^^eri 



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