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slirub ; young bi'anches terete, puberulous when very young. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, acute, the base rounded 

 or narrowed ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining, reticulate, the 

 lower dull and the nervation indistinct ; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, faint, 

 spreading ; length 3"5 to 6'5 in., breadth 1"25 to 275 in., petiole "2 to 

 •35 in. Racemes about '5 in. long, many-flowered ; the bracts rather 

 large, ovate, concave, imbricate when young, decidaous. Flowers 

 about '5 in. long ; petals 6, united in pairs. Fertile stamens 3, about 

 as long as the pale staminodes. Fruit sub-globose, the apex truncate, 

 •5 in. in diam., enveloped except at the apex by the accrescent calyx. 

 Wall. Cat. 6775; A. B. Decaisne ISTouv. Ann. Mus. Ill, 438; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I, Pt, I. 785 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I. 577 ; Kurz For. Flora 

 Burma I, 234; Valeton, Olaciness, 115. 



Andaman and l!^icobar Islands, Malacca. Distrib : Java, Phillip- 

 pines, Burmah, Chittagong. 



Although I have not included 0. mergtiensis, Planch as a synonym 

 of this, I cannot see how it can be specifically separated. 0. Wighti- 

 ana, Wall, also appears to me to resemble this too closely to be kept 

 distinct as a species. 



2. Harmandia, Pierre. 



Trees with altei^nate, simple, entire, petiolate leaves. Flowers uni- 

 sexual, racemose, pedicellate, solitary in the axils of bracteoles. Calyx 

 cupular, entire or 4-toothed, greatly enlarged and persistent in the fruit. 

 Corolla campanulate or urceolate, fleshy, with 4 short acute valvate lobes 

 (in the female flowers 6-to 8-lobes ?) Disc short, thin, annular, crenulate, 

 deciduous, embracing the outside of the base of the cyliiidric staminal 

 tube. Anthers 4, sessile, inserted at the mouth of the thick fleshy 

 staminal tube opposite the teeth of the corolla, bilocular, introrse, the 

 apices reflexed, the connective thick. Pistil superior, pyramidal, sur- 

 rounded in the female flower by the barren staminal tube, 1-celIed ; 

 s%ma 3-lobed, sessile ; ouziZes 2 (usually only 1), short, free, descending 

 from the apex of the short trigonous central placenta. Drupe oblong, 

 1-seeded, surrounded at the base by the large, fleshy, spreading, coloured 

 accrescent calyx ; epicarp fleshy, endocarp ligneous. Seed solitary, 

 filling the cavity of the fruit, its testa thin and inseparable from the 

 fleshy albumen ; embryo minute, excentric, oblique, near the apex of the 

 allumen. Cotyledons flat, shorter than the radicle. Distrib. 2 species ; 

 both Malayan. 



This genus founded by M. Pierre (Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, No. 97, 

 p. 770), is remarkable in having a fleshy staminal tube very like 

 that of some Meliaceae, and for the enormous development of the accre- 

 scent calyx which forms a large coloui*ed collar I'ound the ripe fruit, 



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