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more flaccid and broader leaves than the Khasian, with 8-9 pairs of nerves, and a 
longer peduncle; its corollas have fallen away. 
4. A. polycephala, Benth. Fl. Hongkong, 146; leaves shortly petioled 
lanceolate caudate-acuminate glabrous, heads in ,trichotomously branched 
panicles, corolla glabrous. Nauclea polycephala, Wall. Cat. 6100; G. Don 
Gen. Syst. ii. 467 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 65. 
Ser and Kmasia Mts., De Silva, Griffith, &c.  Currraaoxa, J. D. H. 4 T. T. 
TENASSERIM, Kurz. Moulmein on Thounggyun, alt. 4000 ft., T. Lobb, 
A small evergreen tree. Leaves 3-5 by 1-13 in. rather thin, glossy above; 
nerves 5-9 pair, caudate apex obtuse and variable in form and length, sometimes 
strap-shaped; petiole J-2 in.; stipules long. Heads } in. diam.; peduncles and 
pedicels slender, glabrous or puberulous. Capsule obovoid. 
Van. macrophylla; leaves broader 6-9 by 24-4 in. oblanceolate with more nume- 
rous nerves (10-12 pairs) and much shorter tips.—N. microcephala, Wall, in Herb. 
Hook. Cephalanthus aralioides, Zoll. / Morr. Syst. Verz. 61; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 
152, 344. Nauclea trichotoma, Zoll. §& Morr. l.c. N. aralioides, Mig. l. e. Suppl. 
538.—Silhet, Wallich; Mergui, Griffih.—Sumatra and Java: probably the Silhet 
habitat is erroneous, the authority being a garden specimen. 
5. STEPHEGYNE, Korth. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves petioled ; stipules large, caducous. Flowers crowded 
in globose axillary and terminal solitary panicled or subumbelled heads united 
by their confluent calyx-tubes, each peduncle with 2 deformed leaves at the top, 
within which are 2 caducous bracts; bracteoles paleaceous. Calyx-tube short ; 
limb cupular or tubular, truncate or 5-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube 
long, throat hairy or glabrous; lobes 5, short, valvate. Stamens 5, on the throat 
of the corolla, filaments short. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, stigma capitate 
or mitriform ; ovules imbricated upwards on pendulous placentas. Fruit of 2 
dehiscent cocci, many-seeded. Seeds small, testa winged, albumen fleshy.— 
Distris. Species 10, tropical African and Asiatic. 
1. S. parvifolia, Korth. in Verh. Gesch. Nat. Bot. 161; leaves orbicular 
oblong ovate or cordate, tip rounded acute or acuminate, calyx-limb very short, 
corolla-tube much exceeding the lobes. Brand. For. Fl. 262. Nauclea parvi- 
folia, Willd.; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14; Cor. Pl. i. 40, t. 52; Fl, Ind. i. 513; 
Wail. Cat. 6093, excl. B. partly; W. & A. Prodr. 301; Wt. Ill. t. 123; Bedd. 
Fi. Sylv. t. 34. N. parvitlora, Pers. ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 118. Cepha- 
lanthus pilulifer, Lamk. 
Dry forests of the Tropicar HIMALAYA, from the Chenab to Birma, ascending to 
4000 ft., and throughout the drier parts of India to CEYLON. 
A small or large tree, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves extremely variable in size 
and shape, deciduous, 2-6 in., with 6-8 pair of oblique nerves; petiole short ; stipules 
obovate. Heads about 1 in. diam., with 2 linear-oblong leaves at the base; bracts 
cous; peduncles 3-3 in. Corolla glabrous within, stamens inserted in the tube. 
ofp $ in. 
2, S. tubulosa, Hook. f. in Gen. Pl. ii. 31; leaves elliptic-oblong or 
ovate-cordate shortly acuminate, calyx-limb tubular truncate, corolla-tube 
much exceeding the lobes. Bedd. Fl. Sylv., Anal. Gen. 128, t. xxix. f. 1 (evel. 
name parvifolia). Nauclea tubulosa, Arn. in Thwaites Enum. 187; Bedd. Ic. 
Pl. Ind. Or. t. 18. 
/ Western PENINSULA; Cochin, Johnson. Cryton, Macrae, &e. 
A small glabrous tree. Leaves 2-6 in., rather membranous, sometimes pubescent 
neath, variable in shape, rarely acute at both ends, sometimes cordate; nerves 
