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(^onlia,] Lxxx, bokagine^, 38? 



lobes narrow, recurved, as long as tlie tube. Stamens exserted, but not ex- 

 ceeding the corolla-lobes ; anthers oblong-linear. Style short, with 4 long 

 filiform branches stigmatic along the inner side. Drupe ovoid or nearly 

 globular, " pale yellow or sliglitly pluk," the pulp very viscid, tlie putameu 

 Tery hard, usually 1- or 2-celled, with 1 seed in each cell. — Wight, Illustr. 

 t.l69; a dicJtotoma, Forst. ; E. Br. Prod. 498; C. Browiiii, DC. Prod. 

 '^■499; a latifolia, Roxb. ; DC. Prod. ix. 478; C. uiocarpa, F. Muell. 

 Tragra. i. 59. 



Queensland. Eroad Sound, li. Brown; E. coast, A. CumwigJiam ; Gilbert rirer, F. 

 Mveller ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Nerkool Creek, Bowman ; 

 Hockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy. 



The specimens with all the flowers male have usually a looser, more slender inflorescence 

 tban those in which all or nearly all the flowers are perfect. The species is dispersed over 

 tropical Asia, from Ceylon to the Philippines, and is also sent from tropical Africa, hut in 

 uiany places it is cultivated only. 



2. EHRETIA, Linn. 



Calyx deeply divided into 5 segments. Corolla with a sbort or cylindrical 

 lube; limb of"5 spreading lobes, imbricate in the bud. Stamens inserted in 

 the tube ; anthers exserted or rarely almost included. Ovary 2-celled with 3 

 ovules in each cell, or 4 celled witli 1 ovule in each cell ; style terminal, more 

 Jf less 2.Iobed or forked, the lobes entire, without any prominent ring. 

 ™ a drupe, the endocarp forming 2 2-seeded or 4 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds 

 J^itn a membranous testa and usually scanty albumen ; cotyledons ovate, not 

 lolded.—Trees or shrubs, often glabrous. Leaves entire or tootlicd. Flowers 

 •■ather small, usually white, in panicles or cymes, either terminal in the upper 

 pfils or rarely all axillary. Bracts small. Fruits usually much smaller tlian 



The genus is widely distributed over the tropical regions of the New as well as the Old 

 "orld. Of the Anstralian species, one or perhaps two are common E. Indiau ones, the four 

 or three others are endemic. 



S£CT. I. Euehretia.— r^«,-<?w in irregularly -branched jxrnicles. Ovary i-cellcJ. 

 «^''^' 1 ovule in each cell. 



J^^-^s glabrous underneath, rather narrow XE^acumlmta. 



'^''es pubescent underneath, usually broad 2. .F. pilosula. 



Sect. II. Bourreria.-J'/o«;m in divaricately dichotomous cymes. Ocary l-celled, 



'" 2 ovules in each cell. 



^rolla-tuhe longer than the calyx ; lobes shorter. Cymes mostly 

 ermjnal. Leaves oblong or' lanceolate, 

 ■^ves long-lanceolate, with very oblique veins. Anthers included 



"' the tube or scarcely essertcd 3. :&. sahgna. 



-eave oblong or oblong-lanceolate, the veins rather oblique. 



Anthers quite exserted . ^' ^- '"'^^"''"'P'"'- 



•-orolla-tube not longer than the calyx; lohes twice as long. . 



'-ymes small, lateral. Leaves mostly ovate 5. />. tcsvi^- 



Sect. I. Euehretia, Z>a— Flowers in irregularly-branched panicles. 

 "^'^^ 4-celIed, with 1 ovule in each cell. Fruit of 2 2-seeded pyrenes. 



^' E. acnminata, E. Br. Prod. 497. A tall shrub or tree of 20 to 



