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The material ia imperfect and we describe the characters of the ovary and 

 ovules with some hesitation . 



32. GuETTARDA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves sometimes three in a whorl ; stipulesl 

 deciduous. Flowers secund on the branches of axillary forked peduncu- 

 late cymes. Calyx-tube short ; the limb tabular, toothed, usually decidu- 

 ous. Corolla with a long cylindric straight or curved tube, the limb 

 with 4 to 9 lobes imbricate in bad. Anthers 4 to 9, linear, subsessile, 

 included within the glabrous tube. Ovary with 4 to 9 elongate cells, 

 with a solitary ovule in each cell ; style filiform ; stigma sub-capitate. 

 Drupe more or less globular, crowned by the short calyx-limb ; endocarp 

 4- to 9-celled, perforated near the apices of the cells. Seeds pendulous, 

 oblong cylindrical or curved, testa membranous, albumen scanty or none. 

 — DiSTRiB. About 45 species ; mostly American. 



1. GuETTARDA SPECIOSA, Liua. Sp. PL 991. A small evergreen 

 polygamous tree ; young branches as thick as a goose-quill, deciduously 

 puberulous. Leaves membranoas, broadly obovate or ovate, cuspidate, 

 narrowed to the rounded or sometimes minutely cordate, rarely acute 

 base ; upper surface pale-brown when dry, glabrous ; the lower pale- 

 greenish, puberuloas, minutely reticulate ; main-nerves 7 to 8 pairs, 

 little curved, spreading, thin bat rather prominent on the lower surface, 

 faint on the upper ; length 4 to 8 or 10 in. ; breadth 3 to 7 in. ; petioles 

 •5 to 1*5 in. ; stipules lanceolate or oblong, deciduous, '3 in. long. 

 Cymes axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves ; few-flowered, little- 

 branched, on puberulous peduncles 1*5 to 2*5 in. long. Flowers 1"5 to 

 2 in. long, some sessile others on short pedicels. Calyx about '2 in. long, 

 minutely velvety ; tube short-grooved ; limb widely cupular, truncate 

 entire or faintly and irregularly toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, many 

 times longer than the calyx, softly pubescent outside ; the tube narrow ; 

 the limb I in. in diam. divided into 7 or 8 obtuse lobes. Style glabrous, 

 stigma conical. Drupe depressed-ovoid or turbinate, woody, globose, 

 obscurely lobed, 4- to 6-celled, about 1 in. in diam. Lam. 111., t. 154 

 f . 2 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. L 686. . Wall. Cat. 6219 ; W. & A. Prod. Fl. Pen. 

 Ind. 422 ; Wight Ic. t. 40 ; Kurz For. Flor. Burm. II. 37 ; Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 126. Cadamha jasminiflora, Sonner. Voy. Ind. II. t. 128. 

 Nictanthes hirsuta, Linn. Sp. PI. 8. Jasminum hirsutum, Willd. Sp. PI. 

 L 36.— Rheede Hort. Mai. t. 47, 48. 



In all the provinces — on the sea-coasts. — Distrib. Shores of the 

 tropics of old and new worlds. 



33. TiMONius, Rumph. 

 Shrubs or trees : stipules ovate-lanceolate, deciduous : leaves more 

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