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Flora of the Malayofn Peninsula. 



Stipules unequal, (one very large) ; seeds cup- 

 shaped; a tree ... ... ... 36. Mesoptera. 



Radicle inferior :— 



Ovules on the septum of the ovaxy : — 

 Corolla-Iobea imbricate in bud : — 



Ovary 2-celled, each cell with an ovule on the 

 middle of the septum; flowers ebracteate, in 

 small supra-axillary clusters, 5-merou8 : calyx- 

 lobes as long as the tube, thickened and persis- 

 tent, stamens 5, inserted near the base of the 

 corolla- tube ; style short ; stigma fusiform ; fruit 

 boldly 10-ridged ; a shrub ... .... 37. Gardeniopbi 



Corolla-lobes twisted in bud : — 

 Ovary 2-cened, each cell with one ovule (in one 

 species with 2 ovules) ; flowers 5-merous ; style 

 short, pubescent; stigmas stout and grooved: 

 fruit with scanty pulp ; seeds plano-convex, often 

 cupped ... ... ... ... 38. Webera. 



Ovary 2-celled, each cell with one ovule inserted 

 near the middle of the cell, not basilar ; flowers 

 4-merous (5-merous in one species of Ixora) ; 

 style long, slender, glabrous, exserted ; stigmaa 

 slender, smooth; fruit globose or didymous with 

 leathery or pulpy pericarp ; pyrenes 2, coriace- 

 ous, each with a single plano-convex seed : — 

 Style exserted but never twice as long as the 

 corolla-tube ; stigma thicker than the style, 

 bifid : stipules and bracts of the inflores- 

 cence coriaceous, usually small, the latter 

 not sheathing ; leaves usually coriaceous ... 39. Ixora. 

 Style vei'y slender much longer (often twice 

 as long) than the corolla-tube ; stigma not 

 thicker than the style (sometimes thinner), 

 usually entire; stipules and bracts of the 

 inflorescence large and membranous (the 

 latter sheathing) ; leaves membranous ... 40. Pavetta, 

 Corolla-lobes valvate in bud : — 



Stamens 4 or 5, usually inserted on the mouth 

 of the corolla (rarely in the tube) ; ovules usually 

 inserted below (rarely above) the middle of the 

 septum, amphitropous ; fruit a 2- or- 4-celled 

 berry or a drupe with 2 or 4 pyrenes ; trees or 

 shrubs, (sometimes scandent) : — 



Flowers united by their calyx-tube into more 

 or less fleshy heads : — 



Heads many-flowered, ovoid, solitary or 

 in axillary or terminal umbels or pani- 

 cles ; seeds obovoid or reniform ... 41. MOEINDA, 



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