Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Ptninsula. 



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Ovary and fruit 1- celled. 



Flowei'S polygamo-d i o e c e o u s ; 

 ovary in female flowers cylindric, 

 ■with large sessile discoid stigma. 

 Sepals 5, distinct, imbricate; 

 male flowers in short axillary 

 interrupted glomerulose 

 spikes 

 Calyx cupular, 4 5-tootlied, 

 flowers in cymes 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, stigma 

 minute 

 Ovary and fruit 2-celled, the cells 

 1-ovulate (1 cell aborting) 

 Sub-Tribe V. — Phytocrenex. Flowers 

 monoecious or dioeceous, mono-ordi- 

 chlamydeous, 4- or 5-merous (the pieces 

 imbricate) : stamens equal in number 

 to and alternate with the segments 

 of the perianth in the monochla- 

 mydeous, and with those of the corol- 

 la in the dichlamydeous species : ovary 

 1-celled, ovules 2. Scandent shrubs. 

 Flowers monochlamydeous. 



Flowers 4-merous, those of both 

 sexes in capitules, bracteoles 

 close to the flower; drupe 

 bristly 

 Flowers 5-merous, the males 

 umbellate, the females capi- 

 tate, bracteoles separated 

 from the flower by a long 

 stalk; drupe not bristly 

 Flowers dichlamydeous. 



Flowers sessile in long pendulous 

 interrupted spikes ; filaments 

 longer than the anthers : 

 drupe pulpy 

 Flowers in cymose panicles ; 

 filaments shorter than the 

 anthers; drupe with very 

 little, if any, pulp 

 ** Stamens pcrigynous. 



12. 



13. 



14. 



15. 



Platea. 

 GompJiandra. 

 Lasianthera, 

 Gonocaryum. 



16. Phytocrene. 



17. Miquelia. 



18. Sarcostigma. 



19. lodes. 



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