104 Materials Jbr a Flora of tJie Malayan Peninsula. 



from a short placenta. Fruit superior, drupaceous, surrounded at the base 

 by the marcescent perianth ; sarcocarp thin, endocarp bony. Seed solitary, 

 erect, roundish ; embryo in the upper pari: of the fleshy albumen, radicle 

 superior ; cotyledons sometimes 3, very long, plano-conyex. Distkib. 

 Species 3-4, natives of Tropical Asia and Australia. 



Ca^'SJEEa Rhuedii, Gmel. Syst. I, 280. A climbing shrub ; the 

 young branches olivaceous, puberulous, sometimes spiny. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acute or acu m inate, the base 

 slightly narrowed, both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 3 to 5 pairs, 

 curved, ascending, faint ; length 2'5 to 4 in., breadth 1 to 1'5 in., 

 petiole '15 in. Spikes 1 or 2 from an axil, "5 to 1 in. long, tomen- 

 tose ; bracteoles minute, linear-lanceolate, one at the base of each 

 flower. Flcncers '1 in. long, pubescent externally, apices of the teeth 

 of the perianth re-curved. Fruit ovoid, '4 in. long, glabrous ; embryo 

 straight in the axis of copious albumen. Wall. Cat. 1013, B ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1861; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. t. xxvi. ; Thwaites Enum. 251; 

 Brandis For. Flor. 75 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 582 ; Kurz For. Flora 

 Burma I, 237 : Yaleton Olacinese 158. C. scandens, Boxb. Cor. PI. 103 ; 

 Fl. Ind. i. 4-il. C. malabarica, Lamk. Diet. iii. 433. C. zizyphifoUa, Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 360, t. 537, f. 1. C. martabanica, Wall. Cat. 7266. Olax ? 

 sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 342. Opilia amentacea, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. I, 86 Wall. Cat. No. 2331, C. Rheede Hort. Mai. vii. t. 2, 4. Wall. 

 Cat. Canscora, No. 7537. 



Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Malacca. — Distp.lb. British India, 

 Malayan Archipelago. 



I can find no trace of calyx in any of the flowers of this species 

 which I have dissected, and I cannot find that the ovary has more than a 

 single cell. The disc is deeply divided into 4 fleshy acute lobes, between 

 which the stamens are inserted. The fruit is entirely superior. The 

 genus is closely allied to Champereia, which has already been transferred 

 by Messrs. Bentham and Hooker to Sanfalaceae. It is also allied to 

 Lepionurus and Opilia ; and, with these, it should, in my opinion, be 

 retransferred to the family Sanfalaceae in which its founder, Jussieu, 

 originally placed it. Wall. Cat. 7537 clearly falls here and not under 

 Lepionurus sylvestris. Bl. 



7. Lepionurus, Blume. 



Shrubby. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, simple, penni- 

 nerved. Liflorescer.ce axillary, spicate, with large deciduous bracts, the 

 flowers solitary at the nodes, or in clusters of 3 or 4. Floicers mono- 

 chlamydeous, regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth urceolate, the limb 4- 

 parted ; lobes valvate, glabrous within. Stamens equal in number to 



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