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Su1)-{^omis Stratadium, Juss. 



Calyx already in bud 3— l-clcft, the lobes imbricate. 



* Ocary 4-celled. Rachis of raceme very thick. 



+ Calyx-tube icinged. Fruits narrowly winged on the corners. Flowers sessile. 



B. (Doxomma) angusta, Miers. £.T. Tcuasscrim. Tavoy (Parish). 



Calyx-lobes rounded, 2 lines long. Leaves obtuse or acute at the base, not 

 decurrent. 



B. riEROCAErA, Kz. £.T. Tropical forests of the Pegu Range 



Boxomma magnificuin, Miers. and Tenasserira. 



Kyeh (generic). 



Calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, more or less acute, more than 3 lines long. Leaves 

 long-decuiTont. 



Very nearly allied to the preceding, from which it ditFcrs in the few characters 

 above given. The unripe fruits a good deal resemble tliose of Boxomma Cochinchineme, 

 Miers, but this species has very long slender petioles.' 



Sub-genus Bctonica, Rumph. 



Calyx closed in bud, entire, valvately rupturing into 2 to 4 lobes. Ovary 

 4-celled. Flowers pedicelled. 



* Fruit angular, without appendages, \-seeded. 



B. racemosa, DC. F.T. The Andamans, Tenassorim, and Nicobars. 



Butonica rubra, indyta, and Zeylonica, Miers. 

 Flowers about an inch in diameter, in long slender pendulous racemes. Leaves 

 crenulate, very shortly petioled. 



** Fruit conically pyramidal, with short icing-like basal appendages. 



-\ — \- Calyx-tube terete or angular, not winged. 



X Flowers sessile. 



B. MACEOSTAcnYA, Kz. F.T. Southern Tenasserim. 



Boxomma sarcostachys and acuminaimn, Miers. 



Leaves elongate, entire, long-petioled. Calyx angular. 



X X Flowers pedicelled. 

 B. (Cakeya) pendtjla, GrilF. Tenasserim. 



Leaves elongate, long-petioled. Calyx terete. 



** Ocary 2-celled. Jiachis of raceme slender. Fruits sharply i-angular. 

 B. (Eugknia) acutaxgula, L. All over Burma. 



Stravadium demissum and pubescens, Miers. 

 St. Rheedii, Rl. 

 St. coccinenm, DC. 

 Glaljrous or pubescent. Flowers rather small, red. Leaves crenulate, shortly 

 petioled. 



Carkya, Roxburgh. 

 Outer or inner series, or both, without anthers. Fruit globose to ovoid, many- 

 BGodcd, the seeds imbedded in pulp. Ocary 4-celled. 

 Sub-genus Caeeya, Roxb. 



Outermost and innermost series of stamens reduced to filaments. Embryo 

 consolidate. 



' " B. agnotKe 'aide affinis sed diifcrt foliis longe decurrentibus ct calycis lobis" (Kurz). 



