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wards the hilum : cotyledons flat, foliaceous.— Leaves alternate, simple, 
` without stipules. Flowers sometimes unisexual. 
I. FLACOURTIA. L Her. $1.1. 30; Lam. ill. t. 826. 
Flowers apetalous, usually dicecious. Marr. Stamens arranged closely 
on the dilated torus, not surrounded by a gland at their base: anthers nearly 
globose. Frm. Calyx deciduous. Ovarium sometimes attenuated at the 
apex, but without a style. Stigmata 4-9, radiating, linear, furrowed above, 
dilated and emarginate at the apex. Seeds bony.—Shrubs usually thorny. 
Leaves occasionally serrated, toothed, or crenated on the same individual. 
Peduncles axillary, bearing several flowers. 
* 103. (1) F. Ramontchi (L'Her. :) arborescent: thorns few, naked: leaves 
between roundish-ovate and oblong; young ones mucronate ; older ones. 
somewhat obtuse, membranaceous: flowers dicecious: stigmas 5-9.— DC. 
prod. 1. p. 256 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 607; Wall.! L. n. 6677 ; Wight! cat. n. 108. 
—Stigmarota Africana, Lour. Cochin. p. 719. - 
104. (2) F. sapida (Roxb.:) shrubby, thorns scattered, naked: leaves el- 
liptical-obtuse, older ones membranaceous: flowers diccious: stigmas 5-7. 
—Roxb. Cor. 1. p. 49. t. 69; DC. prod. 1. p. 256 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 607 ; Wall. ! 
L. n. 6675 ; Wight! cat. n. 107. 
Except the trifling points noticed in the characters, and that the present 
= smaller leaves than F. Ramontchi, we cannot see any difference between 
them. 
105. (3) F. sepiaria (Roxb.:) shrubby: thorns very numerous, patent, 
bearing leaves and flowers: leaves obovate-oblong ; older ones very rigid and 
coriaceous: flowers dicecious : stigmas 8-4,—Rowb. Cor. 1. p. 48. t.68; DC. 
prod. 1. p. 256 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 607 ; Wall. ! cat. n. 6676; Wight! cat. n. 109. 
—Rheed, Mal. 5. t. 39. 
106. (4) F. inermis (Roxb.:) arborescent: thorns none: leaves ovate : 
flowers bisexual: stigmas 4-5.—Rowb. Cor. 3. t. 222 ; DC. prod. 1. p. 256 ; 
Spr. syst. 2. p. 607 ; Wall.! L. n. 6673; Wight! cat. n. 13. 
Dr Wallich suggests that this may be a species of Rowmea, probably owing 
to the sepals persisting longer than usual; but in Poiteau's Roumea there 
Seem to be other characters, which are wanting in F. inermis. What Dr 
Wallich calls Roumea is a genus different from either Poiteau's or Flacour- 
tia; for it we retain Loureiro’s name of Phoberos. Roumea inermis, DC. 
Bessera inermis, Spr.) does not appear to belong to the order. Stigmarota 
Jangomas of Loureiro and De Candolle is an undoubted Flacourtia, and ap- 
parently not distinct from F. cataphracta, Roxb. 
` II. PHOBEROS. Lour. 
Flowers apetalous, bisexual. Calyx 10-12-parted, persistent ; segments in 
a double row, rounded ; the 5-6 interior usually unequal, some of them similar 
to, others smaller than, the exterior. Stamens numerous, inserted on the ex- 
Panded torus: filaments filiform: anthers versatile, 2-celled, and opening by 
two clefts at the base ; connectivum produced much beyond the anthers, into 
^ long-attenuated bluntish horn. Style elongated, tapering, stout: stigma 
capitate, angled, marked above with 3-4 furrows. Berry 3-4-seeded.— 
aves alternate, crenato-serrate ; serratures glanduliferous. 
107. (1) P. erenatus (Wight:) without thorns?: leaves elliptic-oblong, 
lanceolate, acute and without glands at the base, obtusely serrated ; veins 
