Ib6 Materials Jar a Floia of the Malayan Peninsula, 



iiate, the innermost often larger. Petals 5, rarely 4-9, free or connate 

 below, imbricate or contorted. Stamens numerous (definite in Sladenia 

 and Stachyurus) free or connate, usually adnate to the base of the decidu- 

 ous corolla ;. anthers basifixed or versatile, dehiscing by slits or rarely by 

 terminal pores. Ovary free (|^-inferior in An7ieslea), sessile, 3-5-celIed, 

 (many-celled in Actinidia) ; styles as many, free or connate, stigmas 

 usually small ; ovules 2-8 in each cell, rarely solitary, never orthotrd- 

 pous. Fruit baccate or capsular. Seeds few or numerous, placentas 

 axile ; albumen scanty or 0, rarely copious ; embiyo straight or hi ppo- 

 crepiform, cotyledons various, Distrib. Rare in temperate, abundant 

 in tropical Asia and America, almost wanting in Africa and entirely iu 

 Australasia ; species about 270. 



Tribe I. Ternstrcemiej;. Peduncles l-flowered. Petals imbricate. 

 Stamens adherent to the base of the corolla ; anthers basifixed. Fruit 

 (in Indian genera) indehiscent. Seeds usually few ; albumen fleshy, 

 usually scanty. Embryo curved ; cotyledons shorter than the radicle 

 and about as broad, 



* Fruit inferior. 



1. Anneslea. 

 ** Fruit superior. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. 



Anthers usually pilose, stamens and 



seeds numerous, ovary 3-5-celled 2. Adinandra. 

 Flowers dioecious. 



Flowers large, on long pedicels ... 3. Ternstrcemia. 



Flowers small, sessile or sub-sessile ,,, 4. Eurya. 

 Tribe II. Sauraujej;. Peduncles many-flowered. Petals imbri- 

 cate. Anthers versatile. Fruit usually pulpy, rarely sub-dehis- 

 cent. Seeds numerous, minute, albumen abundant. Radicle straight or 

 slightly curved and longer than the cotyledons. 



Climbers, dicecioua ... ... 5. Actinidia. 



Trees or shrubs ; usually hermaphrodite ... 6. Sauranja. 

 Tribe III. Gordonieje. Peduncles ]-flowered, very often short. 

 Petals imbricate. Anthers versatile. Fruit indehiscent or loculicidal. 

 Albumen scanty or 0. Cotyledons various ; radicle short, straight or 

 curved. 



* Fruit indehiscent ... ... ... 7. Pyrenaria. 



** Fruit dehiscent. 



Ovules lateral, seeds winged, radicle in- 

 ferior ... ... ... 8. Schima. 



Ovules pendulous, seeds winged, radicle 



superior ... ... ... 9. Gurdonia. 



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