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(for the Order) white, pedicellate, without bracteoles, in terminal or 

 axillary umbels or panicles, pedicels slender. Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes 

 obtuse, coriaceous, twisted to the left, overlapping to the right ; tube 

 none. Corolla with short tube ; lobes 5, acute, overlapping to the right 

 in bud, afterwards recurved. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube ; 

 filaments elongate, connate into a tube below; anthers with transversely 

 septate cells, cordate-lanceolate, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Ovary fusiform, narrowed into an elongated style ; stigma acute ; 

 ovules many, immersed in a central globose placenta. Fruit cylindric, 

 curved, acute, coriaceous, 1-seeded; pericarp coriaceous, afterwards 

 splitting, testa membranous. Seed elongate, exalbuminous ; radicle 

 inferior, enlarged at the base, joined with the cotyledons into a cylindric 

 tube ; germination often taking place while still on the plant, as in 

 some lihizophorece. — Disteib. Two species, of the sea-coasts of 

 India, Burma, the Malay Peninsula and Islands, to South China and 

 tropical Australia. 



^GiCEEAS MAJUS, Gaertn. Fruct. I. 216, t. 46, fig. 1 (1788). A 

 shrub or small tree reaching 15 to 20 feet in height, evergreen, all 

 parts glabrous; branches greyish-black, smooth; branchlets reddish. 

 Leaves coriaceous ; obovate, rounded obtuse or emarginate at apex 

 sometimes even obcordate, cuneate at base, margins recurved; glan- 

 dular dots many, inconspicuous ; 1-5 to 3'5 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. 

 broad ; midrib slender, raised above or sometimes depressed ; main- 

 nerves about 10 pairs, slender, raised above, straight at first then 

 curving upwards ; secondary nerves slender, few, reticulations not 

 prominent ; petiole -2 to -3 in. long, thick, bordered by the decurrent 

 margins of the blade. Inflorescence a terminal, axillary or leaf-opposed 

 many- (15 to 20) flowered umbel, sessile or very short peduncled; 

 bracts oblong-lanceolate, deciduous ; pedicels slender, -3 to -5 in. long ; 

 buds conical. Calyx-lobes concave, gibbous at the base, broadest at 

 top, -25 in. long, -15 in. broad, with parallel veins and scattered black 

 dots in the lower part. Corolla-lobes ovate, acuminate, glabrous, 

 parallel-veined, -25 in. long, recurved; tube as long as lobes, villous 

 hairy within. Stamens longer than corolla-lobes, exsert ; filaments 

 connate half-way up, linear, connate part densely villous, free part 

 glabrous -2 in. long; anthers -1 to -15 in. long, dorsifixed, cells pro- 

 minently septate. Ovary ovoid, surmounted by a subulate angular 

 style, "3 in. long, black-gland-dotted below. Fricit a long acuminate 

 pale brown capsule, up to 3 in. long, -25 in. in diam., glabrous. Seed 1, 

 elongate, filling the capsule, embryo inverse, funicle very long. Willd. 

 Sp. PL I. 1185 ; Eoem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. IV. 511 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. 

 III. 130 ; A. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2, XVI. t. 9a, and Prod. VIII. 

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