696 Liv. RHizoPHORACE^. [Bruguteru. 



cylindric; lobes 8 much shorter. Petals 8 much shorter, oblong, 

 tip broad emarginate and except for 5 white hairs glabrous. 

 Stamens 16. Fruit cylindric, ribbed, i in. long; radicle 4 to 5 in. 

 long. Hab. Mangroves, fairly common, but less so than the last. 

 Whole peninsula. Native 7ianie : Lenggadai. Disirib. India, Malay 

 isles. 



Order LV. LEGNOTID/E 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, stipulate. Flowers small, 

 white, axillary cymose. Calyx tubular adnate more or less to 

 ovary. Petals 4 to 5, usually lacerate on the edge of the tube. 

 Disc lining tube. Stamens twice as many as petals. Style i. 

 Fruit drupaceous. Seed i. Species about 80, tropics. 



Flowers in short cymes; petals on edge of disc; ovary 



half inferior . . . . . . . .1. Carallia 



Flowers fascicled ; petals from below disc ; ovary 



superior . . . . . . . .2. Gynotroches 



Flowers i or 2, axillary; petals on edge of tube . .3- Pellacalyx 



1. CARALLIA, Roxb. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous (rarely thin) glabrous, 

 petioled ovate or elliptic. Cymes short axillary trichotomous, 

 simple or branched. Calyx-tube campanulate, 5- to 8-lobed; 

 lobes short, valvate. Petals 4 to 5 on edge of crenulate disc hning 

 the tube, clawed, entire orbicular or more or less lacerate. Disc 

 epigynous, 10- to i6-lobed. Stamens insert with petals ; filaments 

 filiform ; anthers small, oblong. Style filiform. Fruit globose or 

 ovoid, fleshy, i-celled, i- to 2-seeded. Seed globose-reniform. 

 Species 12, Indo-Malaya, Australia. 



Leaves entire coriaceous. 



Leaves obovate ; cymes as long as peduncles ; 



flowers several, -15 in. long . . . . (i) C. integerrima 



Leaves obovate; cymes on peduncles longer than 



petiole; flowers 3 together, -25 in. long . . (2) C. eugenioidea 



Leaves elliptic, sub-acute ; peduncles long 3-flowered, 



•25 in. long (3) C. montana 



Leaves elliptic cuspidate, larger, thinner; flowers 



3 to 5 in cyme, -15 in. long . . . • (4) C. Scortechinii 



Leaves coriaceous elliptic acuminate serrulate i'y$ 



in. long; cymes of 3 or more flowers small . (5) C. euryoides 

 Leaves thin elliptic, large and spinulose on edge. 



Flowers in peduncled cymes ; bracts imbricate ; 



seeds 2 . . . . . . . . (6) C. spinulosa 



Flowers in very short racemes ; shrub . . • (7) C. suffruticosa 



(i) C. integerrima DC. Prodr. iii. 33 ; Hook. fil. F.B.I, ii. 439. 

 C. lucida King, I.e. 318, not of Roxburgh. 



A glabrous tree 40 to 60 ft. tall. Leaves coriaceous obovate to 

 elliptic-oblong, shortly cuspidate, base long-narrowed, edge entire; 



