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styles 2, subulate, persistent, the stigmas simple. Capsule small, coriace- 

 ous, 2-celled, septicidally 2-valved, the valves boat-shaped, few- or many- 

 seeded. Seeds oblong, reniform or subglobose ; the testa membranous, 

 often hairy. Embryo terete, in the axis, or towards the apex, of the 

 flesliy albumen. Distrib. Species about 80; Malayan, Mascarene 

 Australasian, and American. 



Weinmannia Blumei, Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bofc. Vol. 6, 

 (1847), p. 470. A small tree; young branches with sparse black stiff 

 hairs and many lenticels. Stipules obovate-rotund, ad pressed -iDubescent, 

 •2 in. in diam. Leaves 2-3-5 in. long, pinnate ; leaflets 9-11, opposite, 

 sessile, narrowly oblong-lanceolate with acute apices and slightly 

 narrowed and oblique bases, their edges remotely glandular-serrate, 

 the upper surfaces glabrous, the lower glabrous but for a veiy few- 

 scattered black hairs ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, dark-coloured ; leno-th 

 •75-1 in., the terminal one longer, breadth '2-S in. Racemes clustered 

 at the apices of the branches, about as long as tlie leaves, puberulous, 

 many-flowered. Flowers less than I in. long, their pedicels shorter. 

 Capsules narrowly elliptic, glaberulous, crowned by the 2 divergent styles. 

 Sfeds elongated, very comose at one end, less so at the other. Miq, 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 1, 718. Spirssa pinnata, Blume, Cat. Hort. Bot. 

 Bogor. Arnoldia pinnata, Blume Bijdr., 868. 



Malacca; on Mount Ophir, Griffith. Perak; on Grimong Bubu, at 

 an elevation of 5000 feet, Wray 3814 ; on Gunong Idjan at 5000 feet, 

 Scortechini 446. 



3. PoLYUSMA, Blume. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, 

 petioled, acute or acuminate. Flowers in terminal racemes (in some 

 non-Indian species solitary) 3-bracteolate. Calyx-tnhe entirely adnate 

 to the ovary ; lobes 4, small, persistent. Petals 4, epigynous, linear, 

 valvate, white, yellowish or greenish, niuch recurved when expanded, 

 fugacious, usually hairy within. Stamens 4:^ epigynous, filaments hairy. 

 Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; style columnar, stigma simple ; ovules numer- 

 ous, ascending, on two parietal placentas which project considerably 

 into the cavity of the ovary. Fruit sub-baccate, 1-seeded. Seed 

 ascending, subbasal. Distrib. Species 18 ; Malayan, British Indian and 

 tropical Australasian. 



Leaves quite glabrous on both surfaces : — 



Leaves sharply sinuate-dentate, membranous ; flowers • 2 in. 



long ... ... ... ... ... 1. P. parvijlora. 



Leaves quite entire, coriaceous, flowers '3 or "35 in. long : — 

 Leaves elliptic to elliptic-rotund, or obovate ; calyx 

 Btrigose ... ... ... ... ... 2. P. conacea, 



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