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LXII. SAMYDACE^. 



[Casearia. 



or ovoid with a scarlet aril. Species 140, all tropics (King, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. Ixvii. (2), p. 14). 



Leaves pubescent beneath. 



Leaves thin, base cuneate or blunt, 3 in. long; 

 fruit under i in. long .... 



Leaves rather thick, base cordate, 6 in. long; fruit 

 I in. long ...... 



Leaves broad elliptic, base cuneate, 6 by 4 in. ; 

 fruit I in. long ..... 



Leaves quite glabrous. 

 Fruit under i in. long. 



Leaves large ovate elliptic .... 



Racemes not elongating, sub-crenulate. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate 4 by 2 in. ; fruit 

 short, ovoid ...... 



Leaves oblong 4 to 6 in. long, 2-5 to 3 in. 

 wide ....... 



Leaves lanceolate, thin coriaceous, 4 by 1-5 

 in. ; fruit oblong ..... 



Leaves lanceolate, 3 by i in. ; fruit ellipsoid. 



Racemes elongating; leaves thinly ridged 



coriaceous ...... 



Fruit I •5 to 2 in. long. 



Leaves lanceolate 6 in. long; flowers crowded, 

 several. ...... 



Leaves lanceolate, short, 4 to 5 in. long; flowers 

 in ones and twos ..... 



(i) C. Lobbiana Titrcz, Bull. Soc. Nat. AIosc. xxx. (i), 463 ; 

 Clarke, in Hook. fil. F.B.I, ii. 594; King, I.e. 15. 



Small shrub or small treelet, 4 to 15 ft. tall, pubescent. Leaves 

 oblong or "oblong-lanceolate short acuminate, membranous, 

 glabrous above, except midrib and nerves beneath, softly pubes- 

 cent; nerves 8 to 10 pairs, 2 to 5 in. long, 75 to 2-25 in. wide; 

 petioles -2 to -3 in. long tomentose. Flowers few, axillary, green. 

 Calyx teeth triangular, acute, -5 in. long, -4 in. wide. Fruit sub- 

 globose orange -5 in. long, -4 in. wide. Seed with crimson aril. 

 Hab. Lowland woods. Singapore, Garden Jungle, Johor, Tanjong 

 Kupang. Malacca, Alor Gajah (Griffith). Selangor, Bukit Hitam 

 (Kelsall). Perak, Larut (Kunstler) ; Gunong Keledang. Penang, 

 Waterfall (Curtis). 



(2) C. grewisef olia Vent. Choix. des Plantes 48 ; Clarke, I.e. ii. 

 594; King, I.e. 16. C. variabilis Bl. Ann. Mns. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 

 i. 252. 



Small tree. Branchlets 4-angled, tomentose. Leaves oblong 

 acute, base sub-truncate cordate, edges crenulate or not, above 

 glabrous, beneath tomentose on midrib and nerves 10 to 14 pairs, 

 4-25 to 6 in. long, 1-25 to 3-25 in. wide ; petioles -2 in. long. Heads 

 many-flowered; pedicels slender. Buds -15 in. long; sepals pubes- 

 cent. Stamens 8, glabrous ; staminodes 8, pubescent. Ovary 

 pyramidal hairy at top. Fruit nearly i in. long, glabrous. Hab. 

 Forests. Not common. Malacca (Maingay). Bindings, Lumut; 



