Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



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Capitula bracteate, crowded ; calyx with 5 ciliate 



lobes ; corolla 5-lobed ; stamens 5 ; arms of style 



2, truncate ; berry with thin pericarp ; herbaceous 17 



Flowers ia terminal corymbs or racemes : one of the 



calyx-lobes occasionally long, petaloid, persistent; 



erect or scandent shrubs ... ... ... 18. 



Flowers in panicled terminal umbels; calyx-limb 



cupular, deciduous; corolla 5-lobed; stamens 5; arms 



of style linear-lanceolate; woody scandent shrubs ... 



Flowers in axillary cymes ; shrubs or small trees : — 



Flowers polygamous ; cymes panicled ; lobes of 



calyx and corolla and the stamens 8 to 16 ; disc 



large, convex, with as many lobes as the stamens 



and stigma 



Flowers hermaphrodite : — 

 Cymes short, few-flowered ; calyx minutely 

 toothed; fruit with scanty pulp 

 Cymes loose ; flowers 4-5-merous ; lobes of 

 corolla reduplicate-valvate ; fruit baccate, fleshy, 

 2-5 celled 

 Corolla-lobes twisted in bud : fruit baccate, fleshy or 

 dry ; seeds nsually large, cotyledons often foliaceous : — 

 Seeds numerous in each cell of the fruit : — 

 Flowers dioecious : — 



Cymes from the axils of fallen or undeveloped 

 leaves ; style arms 2 ; berries with thin pericarp, 

 ellipsoid or globular 

 Flowers hermaphrodite :— 

 Flowers in cymes : — 

 Cymes terminal, corymbose; flowers 5-merous ; 

 stigma simple, fusiform ; fruit pisiform, 2- 

 celled 



Cymes usually axillary; stigma fusiform or 

 bifid ; fruit baccate with thick pericarp : — 

 Calyx-limb various ; fruit 2-celled 

 Calyx-limb usually tubular; fruit 1-oelled ... 

 Flowers in spikes : — 



Calyx-limb minutely 5-toothed : anthers thick- 

 ened at the apex 

 Ovules and seeds 2 or 3 in each cell : — 



Flowers in axillary fascicles on small cymes ; calyx- 

 limb truncate or 4-5-toothed ; fruit baccate, ovoid or 

 globose, sessile 

 Ovules never more than 2 in each cell of the two-celled 

 ovary : — 



Corolla-lobes twisted; ovules inserted together half- 

 way up the ovarian cell, one pendulous, the other 

 erect ; flowers in dense axillary pedunculate cymes : 

 a small littoral tree 



COPTOPHYLtUM. 



MUSSAENDA. 



19. Trisciadia. 



20. AULACOODISCUS. 



21. Urophylldm. 



22. Adenosacme. 



23. Brachytome. 



28. Diplospora. 



29. Scyphihora. 



