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on the branches of a simple or compound panicle, sessile or shortly 

 pedicellate : bracteoles minute. Calyx-lobes 5, rounded, sub-equal, 

 much imbricate. Corolla broadly campanulate ; tube short ; lobes 5, 

 rounded, entire, much imbricate. Stainens 5, inserted on the tube of 

 the corolla and opposite to its lobes ; filaments very short ; anthers 

 obtuse, laterally or extrorsely dehiscing. Staminodes 5, small, subulate 

 or rounded. Ovary glabrous, 1-2-celled; style short ; stigma somewhat 

 lobed, capitate. Fruit an ellipsoid berry, 1-2-seeded ; pericarp 

 coriaceous, scarcely thick. Seeds 1-2 ; testa crustaceous ; hilum nearly 

 basal; albumen none; embryo fleshy. — Disteib. Species 3, in North- 

 East India, Burma, Malaya and S. China. 



Saecospeema paniculatum, Stapf & King in Hook. f. Ic. Plant. 

 t. 2690 (1901). A tree, reaching 50 to 70 feet in height and 18 to 20 in. in 

 diam. ; branchlets thick, dark brown, glabrous. Leaves chartaceous ; 

 sub-opposite, elliptic-oblong, bluntly acuminate at apex, acute or rounded 

 or often rhomboid at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, nearly black 

 when dry ; 4 to 8'5 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main- 

 nerves 7-8 pairs, slender, distant, often nearly 1 in. apart, starting at 

 an angle of about 60° with the midrib and at once curving upwards tO' 

 and along the margin ; secondary nerves many and, like the transverse 

 reticulations, inconspicuous ; glandular pits in the axils of most of the 

 main-nerves ; petiole -5 to "7 in. long, channelled above and with two 

 minute rounded auricles below the blade. Flowers solitary or clustered 

 on the branches of a leafy compound panicle of racemes, the racemes 

 often 2 in. long ; bracteoles minute, triangular ; pedicels rarely reaching 

 •05 in. in length, stout ; buds globose. Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate, 

 rounded, usually 3 larger with somewhat scarious margins, 2 smaller 

 thicker and slightly acute, shortly campanulate. Corolla-lobes 5,. 

 closely imbricate, rounded, glabrous, -05 in. long, the margins revolute ;. 

 tube as long as lobes. Stamens 5, inserted on the top of the tube ; 

 filaments very short ; anthers ovate, rounded, introrse, or laterally 

 dehiscing. Staminodes alternating with the stamens, minute, nearly 

 orbicular, crenulate. Ovary conical, furrowed; style very short, thick, 

 stigma capitate, minutely 2-4-lobed. Fruit drupaceous, ellipsoid, 

 seeds, 1-2. Bracea paniculata, King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 LXIV. ii. 101. 



Peeak: Scortechini; King's Collector 7970, 8086, 10284, 10554, 

 10672, 10835 ; among large bamboos, on river-banks, or in mixed 

 forest. 



3. SiDEEOXYLON, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes armed, with milky juice. Leaves 

 coriaceous or thinner, entire, alternate ; stipules none. Flowers 

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