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Casearla.l lxiii. samydace;e. (C. B. Clarke.) 501 



8"fid at the apex, or styles 2-5 ; ovules many or several, placentas 2-5 (usually 

 3), parietal. Fruit loculicidally 2-5- (usually 3-) valved, valves carrying the 

 s^ds on their medial line. Seeds several (usually few sometimes many), oblong 

 of angular, albuminous, usually drilled.— Distrib. Species 150, scattered 

 through the tropical regions of the globe, rarely also in the subtropical. 



Petals 0, flowers in axillary fascicles 1. Casearia. 



Petals 0, racemes slender in a terminal panicle 2. Osmelia. 



Petals present, racemes axillary and terminal 3. Homalium. 





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■■-^ Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, distichous, petioled, undivided, en- 

 tire or slightly serrate, often minutely punctate beneath ; stipules small, lateral, 

 caducous. Floivei^s small, greenish-yellow, clustered in the axils (in the Indian 

 Sj^ecies) ; pedicels short, jointed above their baj^e, surrounded by small scales. 



^ (Myx inferior, deeply 4-&-lobed ; lobes imbricate, obtuse, persistent. Petals 0. 

 otamem double the number of calyx-lobes or thereabout, united in a tube 

 With stamiLodes alternating vrith the free portion of the filaments; staminal 

 tube hypogynous^ sometimes very short so that the filaments are nearly or quite 

 tree. Ovary free, ovoid, 1-celled ; style simple ; stigma capitate or 3-fid ; ovules 

 Diany, parietal. Capsule succulent, globose or ovoid, ellipsoid (when dry sorae- 



-■^'hat 3-angular or 6-ribbed), 3- rarely 2-valved. Seeds many, angular or obo- 

 ^lu, with a fleshy usually coloured aril ; embryo straight. — Distrib. Species 



/^, la the warmer parts of the whole globe, most plentiful in America. 



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^ y' ^' fflomerata, Hoxb, Hort. Ben{^. 33; FL Ind, ii. 419; leaves lan- 

 ceolate or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate denticulate or crenate often obscurely 

 ^nd minutely so but never quite entire, acute or obtuse but not rounded cordate 

 ?:* the base, pedicels with minute yellow hair, fruit J in., ellipsoid. DC. Prodr, 

 ^- 49; Bmth, FL Hongk. 122 \ not of Kurz Flor. FL i. 530. 0. ovata, WalL 

 ^^^ 71Q2 E^ not of Poxb. 



. fexKiM, Bhotan and Khasia, alt. 30CO-5000 ft., common. —Distkib. Hong Kong 

 (and probably Malaya, for the examples of C. glahrata Miq. collected in Sumatra ap- 

 pear C. glomerata). 



A shrub, or in interior Si kkim a tree 20-30 ft.; branchlets somewhat angular, 

 8»abrous, not or but little lenticellate. Leaves commonly 4 by ]| in. (in Sikkim fre- 

 ^^ently 9 in.) ; petiole ^ in. Pedicels usually very many, I in. Valyx small, more or 

 J*;ss pubescent in the bud. Stamens 7-10, staminodes yellow.— A plant collected in 

 ^»Kkim by Mr. Kurz, marked ** C. glabra,'' has bark densely uniformly lenticellate, 

 petioles ^-1 in. and the voung buds and pedicels Mnthout the smaller yellow hairs ; 



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 ^Dted in the Kew Herbarium. 



^ % C. leucolepis, Turcz. in BulL Son. Nat. Mosc. 1858, pt. i. 4G3 ; 



eavea oblong acute creuulate base rounded unequal, pedicels with minute grey 

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. -Branchlets nearly glabrous. Leaves o-S by 2 in. ; petiole ^ in. Pedicels i in. 



^^ minutely hairy, larger than ' " '^ „ ' 



y^' Lqbb's No. 468 on which Turczaninow founded the species was not collected at 



those of C. ghmcrata. — There is a doubt whether 



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