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partly immersed in the calyx-tube, globular or sub-globular, S-celled ; 

 the ovules few, erect. Style short ; stigma peltate, discoid, large. 

 Fruit large, woody, muricate externally, hairy within, 5-celled, few- 

 seeded, dehiscent. Three species ; all Malayan. 



C. Griffithii, Benth. in Benth. & Hook. fil. Gen. Plant, i. 213. 

 A tree ; the yonng branches rather slender, dark-coloured, striate, 

 minutely and deciduously scaly. Leaves coinaceous, oval, shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, the base rounded ; upper surface glabrous, lower 

 sparsely adpressed-scaly ; main nerves about 8 pairs, spreading, faint ; 

 length 2'4> to 3"75 in., breadth 1*25 to 1"6 in. ; petiole '5 to "75 in , 

 minutely adpressed-scaly. Inflorescence of fasciculate cymose racemes 

 about 2 in. long, from the axils of fallen leaves, many-flowered ; pedicels 

 longer than the flowers. Floivers "25 in. in diam., scaly. Bracts connate 

 into a 3-lobed cup less than half as long as the calyx. Calyx constrict- 

 ed at the base, then dilated into a 5-pouched sac which is contracted 

 and 5-toothed at its apex. Petals 5, distinct, inserted on the calyx at 

 the apex of its tube, triangular, acute, connivent, fleshy, glabrous. 

 Stamens numei'ous, attached to the petals ; the anthers small, globose, 

 3 or 4-celled. Ovary globular-obovate, densely covered with large 

 loose scales. Style shorter than the ovary ; stigma peltate, thick, its 

 edges wavy. Fruit unknown. Mast, in Hook. fil. ¥\ Br. Ind. i. 353 

 and Jouru. Linn. Soc. xiv. 505, t. xvi, figs. 43 to 50. Beccari Malesia, 

 iii. 270. 



Malacca, Griffith ; Perak, Scortechini, King's Collector. 



Fruit was not known when this genus was first established by 

 the late Mr. Bentham ; and, of this species, fruit is still unknown. Sig. 

 Beccari has, however, discovered two species in Sumatra and Borneo 

 (0. Snmatrana and Bornensis) the fruit of which he describes and 

 figures {Malesia, iii. 271, t. xxvii. to xxix) ; and from his description 

 the generic description has been completed. 



Order XVIII. STERCULTACE^. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees ; herbaceous portions usually more or less 

 stellate-pubescent. Baric usually abounding in raucilage, inner fibrous. 

 Leaves alternate, simple, often lobed, stipulate. Inflorescence axillaiy, 

 rarely terminal, usually cymose. Floivers regular, uni- or bi-sexual. 

 Sepals 5. often connate. Petals 5 or 0. Andrcecium columnar or tubu- 

 lar, of many stamens ; or stamens I'arcly few, free ; anthers in heads, 

 or in a sinHe ring at the apex of the column, or dispersed on the out- 

 side of the tube, or an-anged along the edge of a cup or tube, with 

 intervening staminodes or sterile stamens ; anther-cells always 2, 



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