280 xxiv. TERNSTRCEMIACE.E. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 



TRIBE IV. Bonnetieae. Flowers in terminal panicles, rarely lateral and 

 solitary or racemose. Petals contorted. Anthers versatile or basitixed. 

 Fruit indehiscent or septicidal; albumeii scanty or 0. Embryo straight, 

 cotyledons flat ; radicle short. 



Ovary 5-celled 14. ARCHYT.EA. 



Poeciloneuron is referred to Guttiferce. (p. 278.) 



1. ANNESLEA, Wall. 



Evergreen trees with the habit of Ternstrcemia. Flowers axillary and 

 forming sub-terminal umbellate corymbs, rather large, white. /Segals 5, 

 connate into a tube which is finally fleshy and adherent to the ovary. Pthtl* 

 5, connate. Stamens many, scarcely adherent to the corolla ; anthers with 

 a long apiculus. Ovary A-immersed in the torus, 3-celled ; style 3-fid ; 

 ovules many, pendulous from the top of the cells. Fruit baccate, leathery, 

 inferior, crowned by the sepals. Seals oblong with a horse-shoe-shaped 

 cavity, testa osseous, albumen fleshy. DISTRLB. Malay Peninsula ; species _'. 



1. A. fragrans, Walt. Cat. 598; Plant J*. l!r. i. 5, t. 5; peduncles 

 about twelve in each corymb 2^-3 in. slender with 2 ovate obtuse bracts. 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 567, t. 585 A, f. 1~7. 



KASTKKN I 'KM \.-TLA ; Mnulnirin and Martaban, WaUicli, &c. 



A tree 30 ft. Leaves 3J-5 by 1J-24 in., elliptic-oblong, acute or obtuse; petioles 

 J-l in. tiefwls ^ in, cordifonn, acute. Fruit 1 in. diani. tieedts with a thin scarlet 

 fleshy envelope. 



2. A. crassipes, Hook. ex. dims. Mem.. Ternstr. 41 ; peduncles 3-6 in 

 each corymb about 1 in. rather thick with 2 small ovate acute fleshy 

 1 tracts. 



MA.- TERN PENINSULA; Mt. Ophir, Malacca, Griffith, &c. DISTRIB. Philippine Islds. 



A tree. Lea res 2-4^ by 1J-2 in., lanceolate elliptic or oblanceolate, cremilate, acute 

 or obtuse; petioles -1 in. Flowers as in A. fragrans but drooping, titpals ^ in., 

 orbicular, acute. Fruit \ in. diam. 



2. TERNSTRCBBXIA, Linn. 



Glabrous evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves leatherv, entire or crenate- 

 serrate. Peduncles lateral, recurved, 2-bracteate below the flower. Sepalt 5. 

 Ptiuls 5, connate at the base. Stamens many ; anthers glabrous. Ovary 

 2-3-celled ; style simple, often 0, stigma broadly 2-3-lobed or subentire ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, rarely 1 or 3-6, pendulous from the apex. Seeds as in 

 Anneslea but the albumen sometimes evanescent. DISTRIB. Trop. Asia and 

 America; species 25. 



* Anthers apiculate. 



1. T. japonica, Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 335 ; a tree about 20 ft, 

 leaves oblong-obovate petioled, style subentire, stigma 2-lobed, fruit glo- 

 bose. Cleyera japonica, Tfiunb. FL Jap. 224 (not of Sieb. & Zucc.}. 



EASTERN BENGAL and PENINSULA, from the Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft. to Moul- 

 mein. WESTERN PENINSULA ; Nilghiri Mts. ; CEYLON. DISTRIB. Sumatra, China, 

 Japan, Loochoo Islds. 



Branchlets with rather soft bark, whorled or repeatedly forked. Leaves 2-3 by 

 f-lf in., rather crowded at the ends of the branches; petioles ^-i in. Peduncles 

 f-f in., 2-edged. Flowers | in. diam., in the axils of the fallen leaves; corolla 

 spreading, pale yellow. Ovary-cells 2-ovuled. Fruit i-f in. diam., baccate, almost 



