S2 >;^'T. (iFTTTFKT? v.. 



1-3 in. in cliam., axillary or terniiual, solitary or in pairs, siibsessile; 

 buds subglobose ; bracts 0. Sepals 4, orbicular, cupped, puberulous 

 outside, persistent, the inner pair much longer than the outer. Petals 



4, pure white, spreading, obovate-cuneate, with crisped and undulate 

 margins often torn. Stamens very numerous, golden-yellow, much 

 shorter than tlie ))etals, slightly united at the base into a fleshy ring ; 

 anthers oblong. Style twice as long as the stamens ; stigmA peltate. 

 Pruit 1-1 J iu. long, ovoid with a conical point, surrounded by the 

 enlarged sepals ; pericarp tough, semi-woody, at length 2-valved. Seeds 

 1-4, angular, smooth, chestnut-brown. Fl. B, I. v. 1, p. 277 ; Grrah. 

 Cat. p. 2() ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 31 ; Engler, in Engl. & Prantl, Pilauzeni". 

 V. 3, part 6, p. 219, fig. 103 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. IG ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 126; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 5, p. 236.— Flowers : Mar. Veen. Ndg-cMplia. 



A Tery beautiful tree, often planted near temples, indigenous in the forests of 



5. Konkan and N. Kanara. Konkan: Law I, SfocKs !, Woodrow ! ; Bombay, Dahelll ; 

 Wari (S. Konkan), Dakcll cf- Gibson. S. M. OouNTuy : Eamghat, Bitchie, 5 ! Kanaka : 

 about villages, Ritchie, 5 ! ; sparingly in the evergreen forests of N. Kanara, Talbot. — 

 DiRTKiB. Oevlon. 



Order XXII. TERNSTRCEMIACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely scandent. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), 

 simple, usually serrate, coriaceous ; stipules 0. Flowers regular, usually 

 hermaphrodite, axillai'y and 1 or more together, or in terminal or axil- 

 lar}' racemes (rarely panicled). Sepals 5 (rarely 4-7), free or slightly 

 connate, imbricate, the inner usually the larger. Petals 5 (rarely 4-9), 

 free or often united at the base into a ring or short tube, much imbricate 

 or contorted. Stamens indefinite, rarely equal in number to the petals 

 or twice as many, hypogynous, free or connate at the base with one 

 another, or adnate to the base of the petals and deciduous with them 

 (very rarely persistent) ; anthers basifixed or versatile, 2- celled, dehiscing 

 by parallel slits, rarely by terminal pores. Disk 0. Ovary free (rarely 

 half inferior), sessile, 3-5- (rarely 2-many-) celled ; ovules 2-many in 

 each cell, rarely solitary, never orthotropous ; styles as many as the 

 cells of the ovary; stigmas usually small. Fruit baccate or capsular. 

 Seeds few or numerous ; placentas axile ; albumen scanty or (rarely 

 copious) ; embryo straight or hippocrepiform ; cotyledons various. — 

 DiSTBiB. Tropical Asia and America, Malaya, few in Africa, absent from 

 Australia and New Zealand ; genera 32 ; species about 270. 



Styles y ; antlier.s basifixed ; seeds not winged 1. Euuya. 



Style single ; ant liers versatile ; seeds winged 2. Gokoon ia, 



1. EURYA, Thunb. 



Shrubs. Leaves usually crenate-serrate and glabrous. Flowers di- 

 oecious, small, sessile or shortly pedicelled, in axillary fascicles, rarelj'- 

 solitary ; bracts persistent. Sepals 5, n)uch imbricate. Petals 5, imbri- 

 cate, connate at the base. Stamens 15 or less (rarel}^ 5), adnate to the 

 base of the corolla ; anthers glabrous, basifixed. Ovary 3- (rarely 2-5-) 

 celled ; ovules many in the inner angle of each cell ; styles 3 (rarely 

 2-5), free or connate. Yvmt baccate ; albumen fleshy. — DiSTitiB. 

 Warmer parts of Asia and Malaya ; species about 10. 



