402 



EuniORBTACE.'E (HutcMnsou). 



[Fluggea. 



XTTI. FLUGGEA, Willd. 



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Flowers dioecious. Petals absent. Male flowers : Sepctls 5, imbri- 

 cate. Stamens 5, alternating with the disc-glands; filaments free; 

 anthers introrse, erect, cells distinct, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Rudimentary ovary large, deeply 2-3-partite. Female flowers : 

 Calyx as in the male. Disc flat, annular, entire or nearly so. 

 Ovary 3-celled; styles connate at the base or nearly absent, 

 recurved or spreading, bifid ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit slightly 

 fleshy ; pericarp thin. Seeds subtriquetrous, rounded on the back ; 

 testa thick and crustaceous; albumen scanty; embryo incurved 

 with broad and flat cotyledons. 



Shrubs or trees ; leaves alternate, petiolate, entire ; flowers r^mallj In axillixry 

 fascicles, male often nnmerous, female few or solitary. 



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' DrsTRTT?. About 10, in the tropics generally. 



1. F. microcarpa (Blume, Bijdr. 580); a shrub or small tree, 



nbout 1 2 ft. high ; branches and branchlets usually angular, 

 glabrous ; leaves elliptic or obov ate, obtusely pointed or the 

 smaller emarginate, cuneate, subacute or obtuse at the base, up 



in. broad, rather rigidly membranouSj 

 glabrous on both surfaces, often glaucous below : lateral nerves 



to 



91 



in. 



long and 



14 



5-9 on each side, slightly prominent on the lower surface ; veins 

 fine and close; petiole ll~3 lin. long, glabrous ; stipules lanceolate, 

 margin slightly jngged ; flowers dioecious ; male flowers numerous 



lin. 



long, glabrous; 



udiment 



ovary ; anthers 



m axillary fascicles;, pedicel slender, 1^ _ ^, ^ 



sepals 5, unequal, the larger obovate, 1 lin. long and g lin. broad, 

 the smaller oblong, I lin. long, ^ lin. broad, margins membranous 

 and jagged or ciliate, otherwise glabrous; disc-glands usually large 

 and fleshy, somewhat angular, with 3 or 4 depressions or pits on 

 the outside, glabrous ; stamens 5 ; filamiMits longer than the 



lin. long ; rudimentary ovary 

 tripartite; segments free for about two-thirds of their length, 

 terete, reflexed and often thickened in the upper part, a small 

 second lobe of ten developed at the bend, glabrous ; female flowers 

 numerous ; calyx as in the male ; disc annular, glabrous ; ovary 

 ovoid, glabrous ; styles connate at the base, or rarely nearly absent, 

 bilobed, lobes spreading, flattened or subterete; fruits white, 

 depressed-globose, about 2 lin. in diam. ; styles persistent ; seeds 

 shining, with several longitudinal lines of pits on the back and 

 sides. Hooh /. FL Brit. Ind. v. 328 ; merti in Cat Afr. PL Welic. 

 i. 961 ; S. Moore in Journ, Linn. Soc. xl. 193 ; KutcMnson in Dy(^r, 

 FL Trop, Afr. vi. i. 736. F. virosa, BailL Etude Gen, Eupjiarh 59o. 

 ahyssinica, Bnill. Lc, F. angulata^ BailL Adansonin, i. 80. 

 F, ohocata, BailL Lc. ii. 41 ; Pax in EmjL Pfl, Ost-Afr, C. 235, 



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