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flower ; cupular and larger in the female. Ovary 2-celled ; style filifoi^m 

 (short in the male) ; stigmas 2, short, oblong, obtuse, grooved ; ovules 

 very numerous, borne on the surface of peltate tumid placentas. Berry 

 small, globular or ovoid, 2-celled, many-seeded. Seeds cuneate, com- 

 pressed, with thin reticulate testa, and fleshy albumen ; embryo small, 

 sub-cylindric. — Distrib. Two species ; one Eastern Himalaya and one 

 Malayan. 



Brachytomb Scortechinii, King & Gamble n. sp. A shrub 6 to 

 12 feet high; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, somewhat 

 compressed. Leaves thinly membranous, narrowly elliptic, tapering 

 about equally to each end, the apex acuminate, both surfaces pale 

 olivaceous when dry, the lower tinged with brown ; main-nerves 10 to 



14 pairs, spreading, curving slightly upwards, prominent on the lower 

 surface; length 4 to 8 in. ; breadth 1"5 to 25 in, ; petiole '2 to '25 in. ; 

 stipules shorter than the petioles, broadly triangular, keeled, acuminate. 

 Cymes 1 to 1*5 in. long, with few, spreading, lax branches. Flowers '35 

 in. long. Calyx about the same length as the corolla; its tube ovoid, 

 constricted below the short, obscurely 5-toothed limb. Berry globular, 

 •3 in. in diam., smooth, crowned by the short calyx-limb. 



Perak : at elevations of 3,000 to 4,000 feet ; Scortechini 14, 237, 

 1215 ; King's Collector 2136, 2930 ; Wray 950, 2812, 2999. 



This resembles B. Wallichii, Hook, fil., the only other species of the genus as yet 

 described; but that has leaves of thicker texture, more numerous flowers, and 

 ellipsoid fruit. 



24. Stylocortna, Cav. 



Trees or shrubs, with pubescent or glabrous usually membranous 

 leaves and ovate-triangular, usually deciduous stipules. Flowers in 

 terminal corymbose bracteolate cymes, 5-merous. Calyx-tuhe ovoid or 

 campanulate; the limb short or long, always 5-cleft. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, its tube varying in length, the throat glabrous ; the limb 5- 

 lobed, narrow, reflexed or spreading. Stamens 5, on the mouth of the 

 corolla sessile or on short filaments; the anthers narrow, exserted. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; style stout ; stigma long, usually thicker than the style ; 

 fusiform or clavate ; ovules numerous, rarely 2 in each cell, often 

 immersed in the peltate placentas. Fruit globose, baccate, without pulp, 

 2-celIed ; cells 2- or many-seeded. Seeds angled ; albumen fleshy or 

 horny ; embryo small ; cotyledons small, leafy. — Distrib. Probably about 



15 species ; tropical Asiatic. 



The above definition is limited so as to include only the pentamerous many- 

 seeded species vrhich in Hooker's Flora of British India are included in the genus 

 Wehera of Schreber (founded in 1791). Some recent authors refer these species to 

 Tarenna a genus established by Gaertner in 1788 for T. Zeylanica (Gaerter. Fruct. 



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