68 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



Ovary 2-3-celled with several ovules in each cell, without 



spurious partitions; embryo thick, fleshy; cotyledons 



large radicle short ; seeds few ; stamens numerous ... 8. Eugenia. 

 Ovary 2-celled with numerous ovules in each cell ; flowers 



small, few, in small axillary inflorescences. Stamens 8 : 



otherwise as in E'ligfema ... ... ... 9. Pseudo-kugenia. 



Trirb III. Lecythideas. Fruit hard and fibrous or fleshy, 

 indehiscent; leaves alternate, not gland-dotted. 



Stamens all antheriferous, staminodes none ; embryo un- 

 divided ; fruit angular, one-seeded ... ... 10. Barringtonia. 



Inner stamens shorter and without anthers ; embryo in- 

 volute ; the cotyledons leafy, plicate : fruit ovoid, several- 

 seeded ... ... ... ... ... 11. Planchonia. 



1. B^CKEA, Linn. 

 Glabrous heath-like shrubs. Leaves opposite, narrow, pointed, 

 entire, with many pellucid glands. Flowers 5-merous, rarely 4-merous, 

 axillary, peduncled, with 2 minutely bracteolate. Calyx-tuhe widely 

 campanulate ; lobes 5, membranous, persistent. Petals 5, suborbicular. 

 Stamens 10 or fewer, shorter than the petals. Ovary in the single 

 Malay species J-inferior, 2-3-celled, with several ovules in each cell. 

 Capsule bursting from above loculicidally. Seeds angular ; embryo 

 straight with short cotyledons. — Disteib. Species about 50, the greater 

 number Australian, a few in New Caledonia, one only extending into 

 India. 



There are considerable differences in the stamens amongst the species referred 

 by Messrs. Benthara and Hooker to this Linnaean gen as. Some of the species have 

 only 5 stamens, while others (like the solitary Indo-Malayan one) have 10 which 

 however are not unfrequently reduced to 8. There are moreover differences in the 

 shape of the anthers and filaments. The ovaries also in some have two and in 

 others three cells. On these and other characters more than a dozen genera were 

 founded by Schauer and others, but these have been advantageously reduced to 

 Bxckea, 



Bj:ckea FRUTESCEJfS, Linn. Sp. PI. 358. A slender slirub with thin 

 wiry branches. Leaves linear, pointed, "25 to '5 in. long and '05 in. broad. 

 Flowers axillary, '08 in. in diam., usually solitary, in short peduncles. 

 Calyx with 5 rounded persistent lobes. Stamens 10 (or sometimes only 

 8). Ovary half-inferior. DC. Prod. Ill, 229 : Sur. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Ill, 260 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2802 ; Blume Mus. Bot. I, 69 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Vol. I. Pt. 1, 406; Suppl. 308 ; Benth. Fl. Hong-Kong, 118; Dutliie 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 463. B. Ciimingiana, Schauer in Walp. 

 Rep. II, 920. jB. chinensis, Gsertn. Fruct. I, 157, t. 31. B. sumatrana, 

 Bl. Mus. Bot. I, 69. 



In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar islands. 

 DiSTRiB. — Malayan Archipelago. 



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