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nearly as long as the sepals. Staminodes 10 to 20, glabrous, tlie outer 5 to 15 

 shorter than, or as long as, the stamens, filiform; the inner invariably 5, 

 short, subulate, internal to, and alternating with, the phalanges of stamens. 

 Ovary broadly obovate, obtuse, obscurely 4-grooved, with a few scattered 

 hairs near the apex, 4-celled. Style cylindric, tapering, with sparse 

 spreading hairs. Capsule coriaceous, depressed-obovoid, pale greyish, 

 •5 in. long, rugose ; withia shining pale and wrinkled. Seed solitary, 

 oblong, black, less than half covered by a thin arillus proceeding from 

 its side. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 379 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. 

 i. 150; Oudem. in Compt. Rend. Ac. Roy. Sc. Amsterd. 2 Ser., 11, 8, 

 cam ic ; Walp. Ann. vii. 449. Grewia ? caudata, Wall. Cat. 1099. L. 

 lieteroclita, Kurz For. Fl, Burm. i. 150. G. heteroclita, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 590. Binnindijhia trichostylis, Kurz in Nat. Tijdsc. Ned. Ind., Ser. 

 3, iii. 164. Turrcea trichostylis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 502. 



Malacca, Penang, Perak, Andamans ; at low elevations. Distrib. 

 Malayan Archipelago, Burma. 



Var, Mastersiana, young branches, midribs and petioles of leaves 

 puberulous ; flowers '5 in. in diam., the buds pointed; sepals 3-veined: 

 outer staminodes varying from 5 to 15, often pubescent in the upper 

 half : ovary oblong-ovoid, villous, 3-celled : style glabrous : capsule 

 black. L. acuminata, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 379. 



Malacca and Perak. Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo, Barmah. 



This shrub or small tree is common, and I have thus had the 

 advantage of being able to examine a large number of flowers. The 

 result of my examination of these is that, whereas the inner staminodes 

 are invariably 5 in number, the outer sei'ies varies in number in the 

 most perplexing way from 5 to 15. Where there are 10, they are always 

 arranged in pairs united at the base : and where there are 15, they are 

 ari'anged in threes united at the base. The proper view to take of these 

 staminodes is I believe therefore that they are single organs, but some- 

 times deeply cleft into 2 or 3 linear and equal segments. On this ac- 

 count, and also on account of the similaidty of the other organs, I am 

 induced to think that there is but one species of Leptonychia and that 

 Masters' species acuminata and Beddome's L. inoacurroides are merely 

 forms of the species on which Turczaninow originally founded the genua. 



Order XIX. TILIACB^. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple or 

 lobed. Stipules free, usually caducous. Flowers usually cymose, or in 

 cymose panicles, or racemose. Floivers regular, hermaphrodite, rarely 

 unisexual. Sepals 3-5, free or connate, valvate. Petals as many as the 

 sepals, rarely absent, imbricate or valvate. Stamens numej'ous, rarely 



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