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brous inside. Stamens shorter than the petals, filaments glabrous. Rudi- 

 mentary ovary ovoid, obtuse, pubescent. Disk none. Female flowers not 

 seen. Drupes ovoid or globular-ovoid, compressed, 1'25 in. long and 

 •75 in. in diam. ; pericarp leathery, densely rusty-tomentose ; mesocarp 

 pulpy, rather copious ; endocarp thinly bony, smooth on both surfaces. 

 Baillon in DC. Prod. XVII, 16; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 594.; 

 S. edule, Kurz, For. Flora Burmah I, 242. Ghailletia edulis, Wall. 

 Cat. 9030 (" indetermin. ") Kurz in Andaman Report, App. 6. 



S. Andaman ; Kurz, King's Collector. — Distrib. Burmah. 



Kurz himself (in Herb. Calcut. ) reduced his species S. edule to 

 S. Wallichii Baill., and there is no doubt the reduction is right. 



19. loDBS, Blume. 



Climbing shrubs, rarely erect. Leaves opposite, or sub-alternate, 

 petiolate, simple, penni-nerved. Inflorescence cymose, cymes axillary 

 or extra-axillary ; lower peduncles often sterile, cirrose. Flowers dich- 

 lamydeous, dioecious. Male fl.. : Calyx minute, cup-shaped, 5-toothed. 

 Corolla 6-merous, lobes vallate. Stamens hypogynous, equal in number 

 to, and alternate with the lobes of the corolla ; anthers basifixed, 

 straight, 2-celled, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil rudimentary. 

 Female fl. : Calyx as in the male. Corolla 5-parted, the segments united 

 below. Staminodes 0. Ovary sub-sessile, 1-celled, with 2 collateral pen- 

 dulous ovules ; stigma sessile, discoid. Drupe sui^rounded at the base 

 by the persistent, but not accrescent calyx ; stone 1-seeded. Seed pen- 

 dulous, testa thin, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat, leafy ; radicle supe- 

 rior. — Distrib. Species about 8, natives of India, the Malayan Archipe- 

 lago and tropical Africa. 

 Flowers 4-merous ... ... ... 1. I. reticulata. 



Flowers 5-merous. 



Calyx cupular with 5 minute teeth ... 2. I. velutina. 



Calyx deeply divided into 5 lanceolate lobes. 

 Leaves ovate to rotund, pubescence ru- 

 fous ... ... ... 3. J. ovalis. 



Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate ; 



pubescence cinereous ... ... 4. I. ohlonga. 



1. loDES EETiCDLATA, King, n. sp. A woody creeper 20 or 30 feet 

 long ; young branches slender, striate, with a broad line of tomentum 

 on one side, changing sides at the nodes. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ellip- 

 tic or broadly ovate, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly acuminate, 

 narrowed slightly to the rounded or sub-emarginate base ; both surfaces 

 minutely but boldly reticulate, the upper glabrous, the lower with long 

 soft hairs especially on the midrib and nerves ; main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, 



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