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throat ; the lobes deep, broadly lanceolate, acute. Fruit sub-globular, truncate, the 

 top bearing the wide-cnpular calyx-limb, puberuloas, '15 in. in diam. 



Andaman Islands : King, Prain. 



22. Adenosacme, Wall. 



Shrubs with terete brittle branches. Leaves membranous, with 

 many pinnate nerves ; stipules lanceolate, sometimes toothed. Flowers 

 in axillary or terminal paniculate, spreading cymes, bracts often 

 glandular. Calyx-tube globose or hemispheric, with 4 to 6 persistent 

 lobes. Corolla tubular ; its lobes 4 to 6, triangular or oblong, valvate in 

 bud, their edges everted. Stamens 4 to 6, inserted by short filaments on 

 the tube. Ovary 2- or 5-6-celled; style slender or thickened above; 

 stigmas 2 or 5-6, linear; ovules very numerous, on fleshy peltate placentas. 

 Fruit a globose berry, with coriaceous or fleshy epicarp, crowned by the 

 remains of the calyx, 2- to 5-6-cellecl, iudehiscent or dehiscing loculicid- 

 ally at the apex; seeds many ou sub-globose placentas. Seeds small, 

 angled, dotted ; embryo minute in fleshy albumen. — Distrib. Species 

 about 6 ; Indian and Malayan. 



Flowers '15 in. long, numerous, in much-branched 



paniculate cymes 2 to 6 in. long ... ... 1. A. longifolia. 



Flowers 6 in. long, few, in small pedunculate cymes 



not exceeding 1 inch in length ... ... 2. A. Scortechinii. 



1. Adenosacme longifolia. Wall. Cat. 6280. Two or three feet 

 high; stems as thick as a goose- or swan-qaill, straw-coloured, shining, 

 glabrous. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, elliptic-oblanceolate or elliptic, 

 apex rather shortly acuminate, the base much narrowed from above or 

 below the middle to the usually elongate petiole, upper surface dark 

 olivaceous when dry, glabrous, puberulous or pubescent ; lower surface 

 always paler and usually more pubescent than the upper ; main-nerves 

 10 to 24 pairs, curved, spreading, thin but distinct on both surfaces ; 

 length 6 to 12 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 4'5. Stipules oblong, blunt, about '3 

 in. long. Cymes paniculate, from 2 to 6 in. across, never more than half 

 as long as the leaves and usually much shorter, solitary, many-flowered 

 branching from the base or on short peduncles, the branches slender, 

 angled, glabrous^or puberulous, the smaller ones zig-zagged and very thin. 

 Flowers '15 in. long, shorter than their pedicels, solitary or in fascicles 

 of 2 or 3. Calyx almost globular, sparsely pubescent outside ; the 5 or 

 6 lobes spreading, their edges with a few thick elongate glands. Corolla 

 not much exceeding the calyx, densely hirsute outside, glabrous inside ; 

 the lobes erect, oblong, blunt. Stamens subsessile. Capsule turbinate, 

 transversely elongated, "2 in. in diam., faintly 2-lobed, with many vertical 

 lines, the epicarp brittle, sub-glabrous, pure white. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 



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