Scolopia.] XVII. FLACOURTIACE^. 155 



Order XVII. FLACOURTIACE.E. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate usually coriaceous. Flowers 

 small, usually unisexual in cymes, fascicles or racemes. Sepals 

 free, connate, 5 to 8. Petals 5, often absent. Stamens 5 to 8 or 

 more. Ovary superior; styles free or connate. Disc usually 

 none. Fruit baccate or capsular. Tropics. 



Flowers bisexual ; petals 4 to 6. 



Stamens numerous ; flowers baccate . .1. Scolopia 



Stamens 5 or 6; fruit capsule . . . .2. Erythrospermum 



Flowers unisexual. 



Petals o, disc present ; fruit baccate . .3- Flacourtia 



Petals 5 to 8 ; fruit hard baccate ; stamens free . 



Sepals free 5 ; petals 5 ; stamens 5 to 8 . . 4. Hydnocarpus 



Sepals free 4; petals 8; stamens 20 to 30 . 5. Taraktogenos 

 Sepals connate in a cup ; stamens free 20 to 25 . 6. Pangium 

 Sepals connate in a spathe-like limb ; stamens 



free 8 . . . . . . • 7- Scaphocalyx 



Sepals connate in a tube ; stamens connate in 



a column . . . . . .8. Ryparosa 



1. SCOLOPIA, Schreb. 



Spiny or unarmed small tree. Leaves alternate crenulate or 

 entire. Flowers small, bisexual in axillary racemes. Sepals 4 to 6 

 imbricate. Petals 4 to 6 imbricate. Stamens many with a row 

 of glands outside them ; anthers ovoid, the connective produced 

 into an appendage. Ovary i-celled; style i erect. Stigma entire 

 or lobed. Ovules few. Berry 2- to 4-seeded. Species about 15, 

 tropics of Africa, Asia and Australia. 



Racemes 3 to 4 in. long, terminal and axillary . . (i) S. rhiuanthera 



Racemes i in. or less, all axillary .... (2) S. Roxburghii 



(i) S. rhinanthera Clos. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, viii. p. 252; 

 Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 190; King. I.e. 114. Phoberos rhinanthera 

 Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 189, t. 39. 



Bush or tree, nearly glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves 

 coriaceous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate acuminate, base rounded, 

 obscurely crenate-dentate ; nerves 7 pairs fine, 3*5 to 5 in. long, 

 175 to 2-5 in. wide ; petioles -85 in. long, biglandular at the apex. 

 Racemes axillary and terminal, 3 to 4 in. long pubescent. Flowers 

 about 20, '3 in. across; pedicels short. Sepals 4, ovate-lanceolate 

 tomentose outside. Petals 4, larger round, tomentose on edges 

 and midrib. Stamens indefinite; anthers very small; appendages 

 lanceolate glabrous. Stigma entire. Fruit baccate black. Seeds 

 2 to 6. Hah. Usually on sea-shores, but sometimes inland. Singa- 

 pore, Serangoon river bank. Malacca. Selangor, Port Swettenham 



