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or less coriaceous. Flotoers rather small, polygamo-dioecious, in axillary 

 cymes. Male cymes with few or many secund flowers. Female 1- to 3- 

 flowered, the pedicels bibracteolate. Calyx-tube short ; the limb cupular, 

 persistent. Gorolla coriaceous, pubescent, funnel-shaped ; the throat 

 and the tube within glabrous ; limb with 'i or 5 (rarely with 10) lobes, 

 valvate in bud or nearly so. Stamens as many as the lobes of the 

 corolla, inserted by short filaments in the tube ; anthers linear, dorsi- 

 fixed. Disk small, hispid. Ovary many-celled ; style short, thick, hairy, 

 with several more or less united linear (often unequal) branches ; ovules 

 solitary in each cell, pendulous. Fruit ovoid or globose, usually 4. 

 grooved, composed of 12 to 24 or even 30 small elongated 1-celled 1- 

 seeded pyrenes cohering by their sides and sunk in a 4-armed, placenti- 

 form mass, the whole being enclosed in an epicarp crowned by the 

 remains of the calyx. Seeds cylindric, straight, rarely curved, with 

 thick funicles and membranous testas ; albumen scanty or absent : 

 cotyledons small, radicle long. — Distrib. About 30 species, Ti-opical 

 Asiatic and Polynesian. 



Female flower solitary on a long peduncle : — 



cf peduncles long, slender, glabrous ; leaves glabrona 

 except the nerves beneath; fruit 4-grooved, 

 glabrous ... ... ... ... 1. T. Jamhosella. 



S peduncles short, rusty-pnbesoent ; "leaves rusty- 

 pubescent beneath ; fruit not grooved, rusty- 

 pubescent ... ... ... ... 2. T. Wrayii, 



Female flowers in small pedunculate cymes ... 3. T. Biimphii. 



Species of ivhich <f flower and fruit are unknown : — 

 Stipules triangular, acuminate ... ... 4. IT. laxus. 



Stipules cupular, the mouth with several unequal 



linear points ... ... ... ... 5. T. malaccensis. 



1. TiMONius Jambosella, Thwaites Enum. PI. Ceyl. 153. A small 

 ever-green tree or shrub ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, 

 brown when dry, glabrous or sparingly silky. Leaves coriaceous, their 

 margins sometimes recurved, lanceolate, elliptic- lanceolate, or elliptic, 

 acuminate, the base narrowed, cuneate ; both surfaces dull-brown when 

 dry, glabrous ; the lower paler, faintly reticulate ; main-nerves 5 or 6 

 pairs, curving upwards, prominent and silky on the lower surface, less 

 prominent and glabrous on the upper; length 2*5 to 4 in.; breadth 1 to 

 25; petioles "1 to "3 in. ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, silky, slightly 

 exceeding the petioles. Male cymes 3- to 12-flowered, on peduncles "35 

 to 'TS in. long. Female flowers solitary, on peduncles longer than those 

 of the males : the calyx 4-gonous ; suburceolate, the mouth with 4 

 shallow obscure teeth. Gorolla hypocraterlform, '3 to *5 in. long, the 

 throat valvate. Anthers slightly exserted. Disk large. Stigmas 4, 



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