206 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Style deciduous, leaves pinnate. 

 Cotyledons leafy, crumpled ; 

 petals valvate ; filaments 

 linear-subulate, not dilated 

 at the base ... ... 7. Micromelam. 



Cotyledons fleshy, plano-con- 

 vex, petals imbricate. 

 Filaments not dilated at 

 the base... ... 8. Murraya, 



Filaments dilated at the 



base ... ... 9. Clausena. 



Armed ; leaves 3-to 8-foliolate. 



Calyx 3-lobed, petals 3, stamens 6 10. Triphasia. 

 Calyx cup-shaped, entire or obs- 

 curely lobed : petals 4, stamens 

 8 to 10 ... ... 11. Luvunga. 



Armed or unarmed; leaves 1-foliolate. 

 Anthers linear- oblong, disc cylin- 



dric foi'ming a gynophore ... 12. Paramignya. 

 Anthers ovate-oblong, sometimes 

 cordate, the filaments free or 

 conjoined into a tube ; disc 

 cupular ... ... 13. Atalantia. 



1. EvoDiA, Forst. 



Trees or shrubs, unarmed. Leaves opposite, simple or 1-3-foliolate 

 or imparipinnate, quite entire. Flowers small, in panicled axillary 

 cymes, unisexual. Sepals 4-5, imbricate. Petals 4-5, sessile, valvate 

 or slightly imbricate. Stamens 4-5, inserted at the base of the disc, 

 filaments subulate, anthers oblong. Ovary deeply 4-lobed, 4-celled ; 

 style basilar, stigma 4-lobed, ovules 2 in each cell, collateral or super- 

 posed. Fruit of 2 to 4 coriaceous 1 to 2-seeded cocci ; endocarp horny, 

 elastic. Seeds oblong or globular, testa bony or crustaceous, shining ; 

 hilum linear, albumen fleshy ; embryo straight, cotyledons ovate. — 

 DiSTRiB. About 25 species, natives of tropical Asia, the Pacific, the E. 

 African Islands, and Australia. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate. 



Leaflets usually more or less obovate : 

 cymes broad pyramidal or corymbose, 

 much branched. 



Lower surface of leaflets pubescent... 1. E. latifolia. 

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