450 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



Older SAiEYDACE^. 



Flowers regular, usually liormaplirodite. Calyx coriaceous, persistent, 3-7-lobcd, 

 the lobes imbricate or valvate. Pdah 3-7, rarely more, usually resembling the calyx- 

 lobes in consistence, perigynous and imbricate in bud, or none. Dish cupular, annular, 

 or glandular. Stamens perigynous, indetinite, or rarely definite, usually opposite the 

 petals and alternating with small glands or scales. Otary superior, or more or less 

 inferior, 1-celled, with 2-3 or more several-ovuled parietal placentas. Sti/le simple, 

 or 2-3- or more cleft. Fruit indehiscent or capsular, and opening into valves. Seeds 

 often arillate, with a fleshy albumen. Emhrijo straight or nearly so, the radicle next 

 the hilum. Cotyledons flat. Leaves usually alternating, simple. Stipules small or 

 none. Flowers inconspicuous, in racemes, panicles, or clusters. Trees or shrubs. 



CASi:Am£^E. 

 Cali/x free, 5- or i-merous. Petals none. Stamens 6-30, inserted in a siiiyle row 

 to the caiyx-tuhe, usually alternating loith as many staminodes. 



GuiDONiA, Plumier. 

 Stamens 6-15, alternating with as many short staminodes. Flowers clustered or 

 in corymbs. 



G, (Caseakia) Canziala, Wall. Pegu and Martaban. 



* Filaments very slender, many times lonyer than the anthers. 

 f Stamens and staminodes 8 each, separately inserted. 

 All parts glabrous. Loaves coarsely crenate. Flowers about 2 inches across. 

 Pedicels and calyx glabrous. 



G. GL05IEKATA, Eoxb. var. ft Chittagong. 



Young shoots, calyx, and pedicels, and also often the nerves beneath of tlie 

 seri-ulate leaves, puberulous. Flowers only a line across. 



var. a ylahriuseula. Leaves almost glabrous. 



var. ft puberula. Leaves beneath on the nerves, the petioles, etc., puberulous. 



f f Stamens and staminodes 8 eaeh, united at the base and forminy a broad disk 

 round the ovary. 



** Filaments only as long as the anthers. 



G. VAEECA, Roxb. Khakyen Hills. 



All parts more or less puberulous. Stamens 8. 



Casearia, Jacqueminot. 

 C. GLABEATA, Bl. (K.). Kamorta. 



var. with leaves larger and broader at the base, which is rounded or almost 

 cordate on the one side, in this respect resembling those of angustata, T. and B., which 

 may turn out to be only a form of it. Capsules fleshy elliptical, nearly an inch long, 

 smooth and glabrous. A tree of the tropical forests. 



BOMALIE^E. 

 Cah/x free or adnate to the ovary, 4-l5-merons. Petals as many. Stamens 4-15, 

 or if more arranyed in clusters, but always opposite the petals. 



HoMALiUM, Jacqueminot. 

 Petals as many as sepals. Ovary more or less adnate to the ovary and inferior. 



* Stamens solitary and opposite to the petals. Flowers racemose or spiked, often 

 collected into panicles. 



X Flowers about 2 lines in diameter. Ovary villous. 



H. (Blackwellia) tomentosa, Yent. Arakan and Pegu up to 2000 feet. 



£. spiralis, Wall. 



