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Materiah for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



MiCROTKOPIS. 



Edonymus. 



3. Glyptopetalum. 



4, KOKOONA. 



LOFHOPETALUM. 



6. Ceiastrus. 



7. Gtmnospobia. 



Kurrimia. 

 Elaeodendron. 



Fmit dehiscent, leaves opposite (sometimes alternate in Lophopetalum). 

 Ovules 2 in the axis of each cell, petals efoveolate. 



Petals connate, seeds not arillate ... ... 1. 



Petals free, seeds arillate ... ... ... 2. 



Ovnles 1 in each cell, pendulous ; petals bifoveolate, 



eeeds arillate 



Ovules 4 or more in each cell ; seeds winged. 



Petals inappendiculate ; disc cnpnlar, the stamens 

 inserted on its edge or on the inner vortical surface 

 of its upturned edge ; ovary not buried in the disc 

 Petals lamellate or crested on the upper surface ; 

 disc broadly orbicnlar, flat, the stamens inserted 

 half way between the centre and circumference ; 

 ovary buried in the disc 

 Fruit dehiscent ; leaves alternate ; ovules 2 in each 'cell, erect ; 

 seeds arillate. 



Disc free from the ovary, the stamens inserted on its 

 margin, capsule 3-celled 



Disc confluent with the ovary, stamens inserted under- 

 neath it, capsule 3-celled 



Ovary free from the disc, and crowned by a tuft of. hairs ; 

 styles 2, capsule entire or 2-lobed .., ... 8. 



Fruit a dry or pulpy indehiscent drupe ... ... 9. 



Tribe II. Hippocrates. Stamens 3, rarely 2, 4 or 5 ; the filaments broad, 

 flattened, recurved so that the anthers dehisce outwardly, inserted on the disc ; 

 seeds exalbnminous ; leaves usually opposite. 



Fi-uit flattened, dehiscent, seeds winged ... ... 10. Hippocratea. 



Fruit globular or ovoid, pulpy and indehiscent, seeds not 



winged ... ... ... ... ... 11. Salacia. 



]. MiCROTROPIS, Wall. 

 Glabrous trees or slirabs. Leaves opposite, petioled or subsessile, 

 exstipulate, entire. Blowers in sessile clusters or in peduncled cymes, 

 axillary or supra-axillary, sometimes unisexual. Sepals 4 or 5, imbri- 

 cate. Petals 4 or 5, rarely 0, connate at the base, erect. Stamens 5, 

 in.'^erted on the disc or on the tube of the corolla. Disc 0, or small. 

 Ovary free, ovoid, perfectly or imperfectly 2-3-celled ; style very short 

 or absent ; stigma minutely 2-4-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral 

 at the inner angle. Capsule ovoid, coriaceous, 1- celled, 2-valved, 1- 

 seeded, surr-onnded at the base by the persistent calyx. Seed erect, 

 stipitate; ai'il 0. — Distrib. Species about 12; mountains of India, 

 Ceylon, the Malayan Peninsula and Java. • 



Cymes sessile, very condensed, about as long as the petioles, 

 axillary, under '5 in. long ... 



Cymes and their peduncles "5 to "75 in. long, extra-axillary 

 Cymes extra-axillary, on long thin peduncles. 



Cymes 3- to 5-flowered, their peduncles 5 to '75 in. long; 

 petals ovate -rotund 



Cymes many-flowered, their peduncles 125 to 3 in. long; 

 petals oblong 



1. MiCROTROPIS ELLIPTICA, n, sp. King. A shrub or small tree ; 

 young branches terete, pale when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly 

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1. M. elliptica. 



2. M. discolor. 



M. livalvis. 



4. M. fiUformis. 



