Gonystylus .] xxvi. gonystylace^. 323 



These plants have been placed in the Apetalcs, but have of late been 

 considered to be allied to Tiliacecs. The corolla consists of very narrow 

 linear organs, split at the top and often to near the base, into 2 or 3 lobes. 

 These were formerly considered to be scales, but appear from position and 

 texture to be really petals. 



Order XXVII. LINE^. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate simple entire or 

 serrate. Inflorescence various. Flowers regular bisexual. Sepals 

 5 or 6 free or connate at base imbricate. Petals as many imbricate 

 or contort, hypogynous. Stamens 4 to 5 or 10 to 12 ; filaments 

 united at the base into a ring filiform ; anthers versatile. Glands 

 5 or o. Ovary entire 3- to 5-celled; styles 3 to 5 free or connate; 

 ovules I or 2 inserted in the inner angle of cells, anatropous. Stigma 

 terminal. Fruit a drupe or capsule. Seeds i or 2 in each cell. 

 Genera 14, species about 145, whole world (King, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. Ixii. (2), 189). 



Climbing shrubs. 



Racemes very short ; fruit drupaceous . .1. Roucheria 



Racemes elongate ; fruit capsular . . .2. Sarcotheca 



Trees. 



Petals imbricate ; fruit a drupe . . . • 3- Erythroxylon 



Petals contort; fruit capsular . . . •4- Ixonanthes 



1. ROUCHERIA, Planch. 



Lianes with revolute woody tendrils. Leaves alternate, entire 

 or serrate. Flowers in axillary sub-sessile spikes fascicled yellow. 

 Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens 10, all fertile, connate into a tube 

 below. Ovary 3- to 5-celled; styles 3 to 5. Drupe small red 

 fleshy. Stone 3- to 6-angled. Species 3 or 4, i or 2 Malayan, 

 2 from Guiana. 



(i) R. GriiliihiaxLa Plancli . in Hook, Journ. Boi. vi. 143 ; vii. 527 ; 

 Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 414. 



Big climber 3 in. through. Bark white. Leaves lanceolate 

 to elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate crenate-serrate, base 

 cuneate deep green coriaceous ; nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 3 to 5 in. long, 

 1*2 in. wide; petioles 35 to 5 in. long. Flowers "35 in. in clusters 

 of 5 to 8. Petals narrowly oblong, thin. Drupe red '25 in. long, 

 oblong. Hab. Common in low country, Singapore, Malacca to Perak 

 and Penang. Distrib. Borneo. Native names : Ipoh akar putih ; 

 Akar Biji ; Garam-Garam; Akar Kait putih; Akar Musiang; 

 Bhoi (Sakai). Use: in the dart-poison of the Sakais. Flowers 

 fragrant. 



2. SARCOTHECA, Bl. 



Shrubby climbers. Leaves alternate, entire. Racemes or 

 panicles axillary or terminal, elongate. Flowers pedicelled. Sepals 



