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small, liuear without claw, or absent. Stamens numei'ous, free, some- 

 times inserted on the apex of a short gynophore ; anthers oblong, 2- 

 celled : cells parallel, with longitudinal sutural dehiscence. Staminodes 

 0. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, imperfectly 3 to 5-celled ;. cells with 



2 ovules from the base of the axile placentas, style filiform ; stigmas 



3 to 5, linear fleshy, reflexed. Gapstde with crustaceous fragile pericarp, 

 dehiscing irregularly, I-celled (by abortion), 1- to 3-8eeded. Seeds sub- 

 globose, with leathery smooth testa, exalbuminous : the cotyledons 

 lai'ge, leafy, thin, crumpled: embryo straight. Distrib. 5 species, of 

 which 4 are Malayan and 1 Cambodian. 



Flowers iu panicles or solitary, axillary. 



Calyx very accrescent \ ery deeply lobed 1. S. Masfersii. 



„ slightly accrescent not dee^jly lobed 2. S. Kunstleri. 



Flowers in dense axillary glomeruli ... 3. S. glomerata. 



I. ScHOUTENiA. Mastersii, King. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : 

 young branches slender, dark-coloured, at first scaly but soon glabrous. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, slightly obovate, shortly and 

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

 minutely ond softly tawny-tomentose ; nerves slightly prominent beneath, 

 about 3 pairs lateral and 1 pair basal : length '75 to 3'25 in. ; breadth 

 •■i to 1"1 in. ; petiole less than 1 in. Flou-ers solitary and axillary, or 

 in terminal leafy panicles ; the pedicels fi'om "35 to "75 in. according to 

 age, tawny-tomentose, jointed below the middle. Cali/x membranous, 

 pink, conspicuously veined, at first widely campanulate, '35 in. long, 

 with 5 sh.allow teeth becoming with the ripening of the fruit, rotate, flat 

 1*5 to 2 in. in diam., and 5-angled ; pubescent outside, glabrous within. 

 Filaments very slender, longer than the style. Ovary obovoid-globose, 

 tawny-tomentose. Style stout, three times as long as the ovary, tomen- 

 tose : stigmas scaly. Fruit depressed-globose, 3 in. in diam., minutely 

 tomentose. Chartacalyx accrescens, Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 

 382. 



Malacca, Penang, Perak. Distrib. Borneo. 



On this plant the late Dr. Maingay founded his genus Chartacalyx. 

 The only points, however, in which it differs from Schoutenia (as defined 

 by Bentham and Hooker) are the absence of petals and the presence of 

 a stalk to the ovary on the upper part of which the stamens are inserted ; 

 and these appear to me to be, in this order, differences of quite minor 

 importance. Maingay never saw the fruit of this; but copious fruiting 

 specimens have recently been collected and the fruit is found to he 

 exactly that of Schoutenia. As regards tlic structure of Mm pceda of 



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