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Mate riah for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



6-lobed, often biacteolafce, imbricate or valvate. Petals 5, or 0, inserted 

 Tiuder the margin of the disc, deciduous, usually imbricate. Dine 

 liuiug tlie caljx-tube or formint^ a ring at its base. Stamens perigy- 

 nous, indeQiiite (rarely 1, 5 or 10) in one or many series, often connate 

 and unilateral in Ghrysohalanese ; 61aments subulate or filiform, usually 

 incurved in bad ; anthers small, didyraous. Ovary of one or more free 

 or connate carpels, with free or cannato basal lateral or subterminal 

 styles; stignnas simple, peaicillate or capitate; ovules 1 or more in 

 each carpel. Fruit variable, consisting of achenes or berries or drapes, 

 rarely capsular. Seeds erect or pendulous, testa membranous or coria- 

 ceous, albumen ; cotyledons large, plano-convex ; radicle short. — 

 DiSTRiB. About 1,200 species, found in all climates and countries, but 

 chiefly in the temperate. 



Of the ten tribes into which this order is subdivided by Messrs. Bentham 

 and Hooker in their Genera Plantarnm, only four are (as yet) represented b}' speci- 

 mens from the Provinces within our ai"ea, and these four tribes are represented by 

 only six genera which Sir Joseph Hooker (in his Flora of British India) distin- 

 guishes as follows ; — 



Tribe I. Chrysobalane^. Flowers usually irregular. Carpel 

 1; style basal; ovules "2, ascending. Fruit a drupe. Radicle 

 inferior. — Trees or shrubs with simple quite entire leaves. 



Calyx-tube elongate. Stamens many, united in a phalange. 



Ovary 2-locellate 

 Calyx-tube short. Stamens 2. Ovary 1-celled 



Tribe II. Pruned. Flowers regular. Carpel 1, rarely 2; 

 style subterminal, rarely bisal ; ovules 2, pendulons. Radicle 

 superior. — Trees or shrubs with simple usually serrated leaves. 

 Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 5, large, glabrous. Carpel solitary, fruit 



drupaceous 

 Calyx 5-10-to othed. Petals 5 and minute, or absent. Cai-pel 



1. Drupe coriaceous, usually elongated transversely 



Tribe III. Rube^. Floivers regular. Calyx ebracteolate. Sfa. 

 mens very numerous. Carpels many ; styles sub-basal or ventral j 

 ornles 2, collateral, pendaloua. Fruit of many dry or fleshy 

 carpels, not included in the calyx-tnbe. Radicle superior.— 

 Usually shrubs, often with compound leaves 



Tribe IV. Pome^. Floicers regular. Calyx-tube (or the apex 

 of the peduncle) becoming fleshy after flowering, and enclosing 

 the carpels. Stamens numerous. Ovules 2 or more, ascending. 

 Fruit a pome or berry, with 2-5 bony or coi-iaceous 1 -seeded 

 stonesj shrubs or trees ... ... ... ,,, 6. Pyrus. 



Parinaridm. 



Parastemon. 



3. Prunus. 



Pygeum. 



5. EuBus. 



1. Pakinarium, Juss. 



Trees. Leaves simple, alternate, evergreen, quite entire. Flmuers 

 hermaphrodite, in panicles or corymbose racemes, 2-bracteolale, white 

 or pink. Calyx-iuhe oblong, campauulate, turbinate, or funnel-shaped; 



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