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the lobes of the perianth and opposite to them. Anthers glabrous. 

 Staminodes 0. Disk fleshy, yellow, lining the pei'ianth-tube. Ovary 

 free, oblong-conical; stigma sessile, 4-lobed. ; ovule solitary. Fruit 

 drupaceous, glabrous, endocarp crustaceous. Seed erect; embryo small, 

 in the axis of fleshy albumen, radicle terete, cotyledons ternate. — Distrib. 

 Species 2, natives of Tropical Asia. 



Lepioxorus stlvestris, Blumo Bijdr. 1148. A glabrous shrub; the 

 branches sub-striate, pale when dry. Leaves membranous, oblong, elliptic- 

 oblong or elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; main nerves 7 

 to 9 pairs, rather straight, ascending ; length 4 to 6"5 in., breadth 14 

 to 3*5 in., petiole '15 to "35 in. Spikes axillarj^ "5 to 1"25 in. long, soli- 

 tary, or in clusters of 2 to 6, their rachises filiform, at first enveloped 

 by the lai-ge ovate acute, membranous, deciduous bracts. Floivers 

 long, the tube inflated and lined by the adherent disc ; the lobes deltoid, 

 spreading "when mature. Anthers and filaments broad. Fruit ellipsoid 

 to ovoid, '35 to "6 in. long when ripe. Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 

 246; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat., Vol. I, Pt. I, 284; Lepionurus ohlongi- 

 folius, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 583 ; Valeton, Olacineae, 153. 

 Leptonium oblongifolium, Griff, in Calc. Journ. IV, 236. Opilia acumi- 

 nata, Wall. Cat. 7206, also Wall. Cat. 7464. 



Malacca, Penang, Perak, rather common. Distrib. — British India' 

 Burma, Malayan Archipelago. 



I have not been able to make out, from dissections of dried speci- 

 mens, the exact attachment of the ovule. But the ripe seed is unques- 

 tionably attached to the base of the cavity of the fruit. Whether the 

 ovule was originally erect, or was attached in a pendulous manner as 

 some botanists assert, from the apex of a short central placenta, I am 

 unable to say. The genus in my opinion is closely allied to Cansjera. 



8. Ctexolophox, Oliv. 

 Trees, Leaves opposite, petiolate, simple, penni-nerved. InfloreS' 

 cence panicled-cymose. Floivers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-part- 

 ed ; lobes imbricate, not accrescent. Petals 5, free, imbricate, oblono- 

 reflexed after flowering. Stamens 10, free, springing from a short rincr. 

 like, hypogynous disk, those opposite the petals longer than the others • 

 anthers roundish, apiculate, 2-celled, dehiscing lengthwise. Staminodes 

 0. Ovary free, shortly stalked, imperfectly 2-celled ; style cylindric bifid 

 at the apex, stigmas capitate ; ovtiles in pairs in each cell, collateral 

 pendulous. Fruit coriaceous or crustaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded, dehiscing 

 irregularly. Seed pendulous from the apex of a free central placenta 

 and proii(ided with a dorsal pectinate crest. — Distrib. 2 known species 

 both Malayan. 



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