LXIV. COKXACIC.r. 



OiiDi-.R I.XIX. CORNACEiE. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves op[)osite or alternate, usually petiolate, 

 generally quite eutire, ofreu une(|ual at the base ; stipules 0. Flowers 

 1 -sexual or heruiapiirodite, rei2;iilar, in terminal or axillary cymes, 

 panieles or heads. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; limb 0, or truncate, 

 or 4-10-toothed or lobed, persistent, valvate or open in aestivation. 

 Petals or 4-5 (rarely ao ), imbricate or valvate. Stamens inserted 

 with the petals at the base of an epigynous disk, usually equal in 

 number to the petals, rarely 2 4 times as many. Ovary inferior, 

 1-4-celied ; ovules usually solitary (rarely 2), pendulous from the apex of 

 the cell, anatropous. Fruit usually drupaceous ; putamen 1-4-ceIled, less 

 commouly with 2 bony or crustaceous pyrenes. Seed oblong, pendulous ; 

 embryo in the axis of copious usually fleshy albumen ; cotyledons 

 usually thinly foliaceous ; radicle terete. — Disteib. Scattered throughout 

 the world, but chiefly in the northern hemisphere; species 75. 



Flowers fascicled ; petals very long ; stninens 1.5 or more 1. Alangium. 



Flowers panicled ; petals short; stamens 4-5 2. Mastixia. 



1. ALANGIUM, Lamk. 



Shrubs or small trees, armed or not. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 oblong, quite eutire, 3-nerved from the base, persistent. Flowers white, 

 subsilky, hermaphrodite, in axillary fascicles, ebracteate, shortly pedi- 

 celled, articulated with the pedicel. Calyx-tube turbinate, often sulcate ; 

 limb large, 5-lO-toothed or truncate. Petals 5-10, linear-oblong, at 

 length reflexed or revolute, valvate. Stamens usually 2-4 times as 

 many as the petals ; filaments filiform or flattened, more or less villous ; 

 anthers long. Disk cushion-shaped, depressed in the centre, lobed 

 or crenulate. Ovary 1-celled ; ovule solitary in each cell, pendulous ; 

 style narrowly clavate or filiform ; stigma clavate or capitate, 4-many-fid 

 or many-lobed, the lobes conduplicate. Berry crowned \Aith the calyx- 

 limb. Seed oblong; testa thin; albumen usually fleshy; cotyledons 

 foliaceous ; radicle elongate, cylindric, thick. — Distrib. Asia and 

 Tropical Africa ; species 8-10. 



1. Alangium Lamarckii, Tluv. Enum. (1859) p. 133. A small 



tree with more or less spiuescent branches; bark light-colored; youug 

 parts pubescent. Leaves variable, 3-5 by \-''2.\ in., narrowly oblong or 

 ovate-lanceolate, more or less acuminate, subobtuse, entire, glabrous 

 above, pubescent on the nerves and prominently reticulately veined 

 beneath, base rounded or acute : petioles \-^ in. long, densely pubescent. 

 Flowers few, in axillary fascicles ; pedicels i- ^ in. long, densely 

 pubescent, jointed at the top. Calyx turbinate, i in. long, densely silky- 

 pubescent ; teeth triangular, ^ in. long. Petals 5-10 (usually 6), 

 densely pubescent outside, ^-^ in. long and about -j^'^ in. wide, narrowly 

 linear, reflexed. Stamens numerous (usually more than 20), nearly 

 as long as the petals ; filaments hairy at the base. Style as long as 

 the stamens ; stigma very large. Fruit when young ovoid or ellipsoid, 

 becoming nearly globular when ripe, h-^ in. in diam., crowned by the 

 persistent calyx-limb, finely pubescent, not or obscurely ribbed, purphsh- 



