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Ti'ibc IV. BoNNATiE-E. Floivers in lateral 

 panicles crowded near tlie apices of the branches, 

 ^n^/ters versatile ; caj^sitZe dehiscing from base ... 10. Archytaea. 



1. Anneslea, Wall. 



Evergreen glabrous trees or shrubs. Flowers in terminal corymbs, 

 large, white, 2-bracteolate. Sepals 5, their lower part fleshy, connate, and 

 adherent to the ovary, their upper part coriaceous and crowning the 

 fruit. Petals 5, connate by their bases. Stamens numerous ; the filaments 

 short, inserted on the torus ; anthers narrow, elongate, 2-celled, introrae, 

 with a long apiculus fi'om the connective. Ovary half imTiiersed in 

 the torus, 3-celled ; style cylindric, 3-fid ; ovules many, pendulous. 

 Fruit a leatliery inferior berry crowned by the sepals. Seeds oblong, 

 flattened, emarginate at one end, with a hard testa and fleshy albumen. 

 Distrib. Burmah and Malayan Peninsula ; species 2. 



Anneslea ciiassipes. Hook, in Choisy Mem. Ternst. 41. A bush or 

 small tree ; young branches stout, the bark rou'jfh, rather pale. Leaves 

 coriaceous, obovate or oblanceolate with short abrupt blunt acumen, or 

 oblong-lanceolate and acute, much narrowed at the base ; the edo-e thick- 

 ened and obscurely glandular-serrate ; nerves 6 to 8 pairs, invisible in 

 the fresh, faint in the dry state, the midrib prominent in both ; length 

 2'5 to 6 in., breadth TS to 2*25 in., petiole "6 to 1 in. Flowers 1 to 1*25 in. 

 in diam., in corymbs of 3 to 6 ; pedicels "5 to 1'25 in., recurved ; bracteoles 

 fleshy, square, keeled. Free portion of sepals fleshy, "65 in. long, yellow, 

 rounded or emarginate. Petals smaller than the sepals, membranous, 

 ovate-acuminate. Stamens about 30. Fruit ovoid, 1 to 1*5 in. long 

 (excluding the free part of the sepals), rough ; style persistent. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 280. 



Mount Ophir in Malacca; Griffith, &c. — Perak; on Gunong Batu 

 Puteh at 3,400 ft. Wray, Scortechini. 



Var. obovata. A bush. Leaves obovate, minutely and bluntly 

 mucrouate ; fruit conspicuously verrucose. 



Perak, Gunong Bateh, at an elevation of 6,700 feet. 

 Anneslea is pi-actically a Ternstroenua with half-inferior fruit. 



2. Adinandra, Jack. 



Small evergreen trees with the habit of Ternstrmmia or Gordonia. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, recurved, 2-bracteate at the apex. Flowers 

 often silky outside. Sepals 5. Petals 5, connate at the base. Stamens 

 many, often 1-4-delphous, the inner smaller ; anther cells lateral, nar- 

 row, elongate, the connective apiculate, usually hairy. Ovary 3-5- 

 celled ; style ultimately elongate, entire or shoitly 3-5-fid j ovules many 



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