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staminodes subulate, about -05 in. long. Ovary villous; style clavate, 

 glabrous. Fruit an oblong or somewbat obovoid berry, depressed at 

 apex, glabrous, flesby, supported by the somewhat enlarged persistent 

 calyx-lobes, seed usually 1. Seed oblong, obtuse above, somewhat 

 pointed below, little compressed, '6 in. long, -25 in. broad and thick ; 

 testa chestnut brown, shining, crustaceous ; hilum linear, flat, occupying 

 nearly the whole inner face of the seed ; albumen thick ; cotyledons 

 leafy, flat, oblong, 3-nerved ; radicle inferior, pointed. Chrysojohyllum 

 firnium, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 579. 



Pbnang: at West Hill, Curtis, 1575. — Distkib. Bangka, Tcysmann ; 

 Philippines. 



The Bangka specimens have the leaves up to 2-5 in. broad, but in other respects 

 we find no difference from Teysmann's type in the Penang plant. 



Species Ibipekfectly Known. 



6. SiDEKOXYLON Wallichianum, G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 28 (1837). A 

 tree (?) ; branchlets pale brown, ferruginous- villous as are the inno- 

 vations. Leaves chartaceous ; elliptic-obovate, obliquely acuminate at 

 apex, cuneate at base, crowded towards the ends of the branchlets ; 

 6 to 8 in. long, 3 to 4 in. broad ; midrib thick ; main-nerves 6 to 7 pairs, 

 curved upwards, distant, reticulations prominent ; petiole thick, densely 

 tawny-pubescent. Calyx-lobes apparently 5, short, rounded, rusty- 

 pubescent. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1037. S. (?) rugosmn, Wall. Cat. 

 4158. 



The only sheet of this is in the type Herbarium of Wallich's plants with the 

 Linnean Society of London. The remains of flowers are very slight, but they seem 

 to show that the plant belongs to this genus. The note "a small plant growing on 

 crocks — flowers white — from the hills " attached to the sheet, seems to refer to some 

 other plant, for the specimen itself has every appearance of having come from a tree. 



4. ISONANDRA, Wight. 



Trees with milky juice. Leaves coriaceous, entire, alternate, 

 penniveined, the main-nerves and midrib prominent, the rest usually 

 rather obscure. Floivers small, in axillary shortly pedicellate clusters 

 in the axils of present or fallen leaves. Calyx of 4 segments, the 

 two outer opposite, more or less valvate ; the two inner also 

 opposite, imbricate. Corolla tubular, campanulate ; lobes 4, much 

 imbricate, somewhat twisted. Stamens 8, sub-equal, attached near the 

 base of the corolla, both opposite to and alternate with the lobes ; 

 filaments short ; anthers lanceolate, sagittate at base, extrorse ; 

 staminodes absent. Ovary 4-celled, villous ; style linear. Berry 

 somewhat small, ovoid or oblong with a fleshy pericarp. Seed usually 

 1 only, scarcely flattened ; testa thick, shining, crustaceous ; hilum 



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