584 xxxix. OLACINE-ZE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 







Bat. i. pt. i. 784 ; Bedd. Ft. Syh>. Anal. Gen. t. ix. f. 3. 0. jayanira, J/Y</. Fl. 

 I ml. Bat. i. pt. i. 174. Ximenia 1 olacoides, W. <( A. Pm>l,-. i. M>. 



^WESTERN PENINSULA; Northern Circars. Ri^mrijl ; Pu'ney MK, I!'/'/////; I'nir, 

 Kvrz; CEYLON, in hot dry parts of the island, Tlacaites. DisTfli'u. Islands of the 

 Archipelago, tropical Australia and Africa. 



A low scrambling shrub, or small weak tree; herbaceous portions puberulous. 

 Leaves 2-4 by 1 J-2 in., coriaceous, glabrous, ovatr, or ovate-lanceolate, entire, 1 -nerved, 

 arch-nerved, base tapering; petiole ,}-| in. L'm- mr* 1 ] .', in., creet, before flowering 

 resembling cones. Flou:> r* crowded. Jirartu imbricate, at fiist enm-caling the flowers, 



. , , 



peltate, roundish, deciduous. Pedii-c.ls ,'., in., pubernlons. / in. Cnlii.r. 



minute. Petal i ;">, deciduous, each /._, in., oblong, obtuse, alley; 

 the calyx. Gland* (staminodes Y) oblong. obt'ise. half the l< 



Jh'vpe ovoid or globose. Emlnjo linear nearly as long as the albumen. lieUdome 

 "'sciibes the ovule as erect, but this is probably an oversight. 



\-l. LASIANTHERA, Pal. de Beauv. 



Shrubs or trees, some! lines scandcut. L-<irr-s petioled, alternate, simple, 

 1 -nerved, coriaceous, 6'ynwa axillary, stalked. F/otWa dicblamydeous, herma- 

 phrodite or uniseroaL r^///.,-inin\ite, cup-sha] od, 4 .^-lobed. Petal* 4-6, f&B6 



or rarely cohering, without un inilexed }>')int and with no ]>roininent inidrib. 

 titamett* .">, hyjio-ynoiis, five, alternate witli the petals, filaments Hat, dilated 

 above, hairy behind, hairs curving over the anther in the bud : anthers 

 adnate, iMobed, dehiscing lengths ise. ffypogynout disk uup-shiped, more 

 orleeulobed. O/v//-// ovoid, i -colled, tapering ini>a snbulate style, terminated 

 byaminutt ; ovnlea 2. pendmons. />//// drupaceous ; stone fibrous 



outside, woody within. .SV^/ prndnlmis; einlayo ill albumen, cotyledons 

 leafy broad, radicle superior .Thwaites .- 1 )js ! i i;n;. Sj , 1 African, 



the others Malayan. 



1. Zi. apicalis, T/nraltm Kinnn. -\:} and 4o:j ; leaves obovate-oblong 



.Oiortly and abruptly acuminate, pctids free or nearly so, fruit ellipsoid. 

 Jr-ilil. Fl. SfiJi; t. 13!). Urandra a]>ica!is. Tlnr<iit<* in J/utJc. J\< >r ./>// ///. 



. L nni. AV. xx ii. llo ; ( 



Lasianthera soeundinora, 

 '. i. t. ii. 



CKYLON; in damp foivs's, alt. 1 .3000 ft., Tlnrmt,-*. DISTKIH. T.orneo. 

 A large tree. Hra/n glabrous. 1. tares 4-6 by 2-.') in, coriacef" 



ill-oils, midrib depressed above, prominent beneath, base tapeiing into a short petiole, 

 4-^ in. J^iliinclrx about as '. -iitary, cyi:. 



7-12 fl. Fh>ir< i-x greenish-pnrpTe. /"/////./ crji -j-haj ed, ,">-lobed, lobes roundish. 

 ;"! or 4 tirrfts longer than the calyx, ndi-h. ^tanicii* as long as or logger than 



' petals. (>rar;i ovoid, surrounded by an hvpi^^-nons eupiilar lobniate disk, tapering 

 : nto a subulate st\le. stigma minute. 'jJrKjje 1^ by ;, ; in., ston.- woody h 

 ..'p iibrous. Texta consolidated with the pericarp. Embryo half the H'/C of the 

 albumen; cotyledons leafy, cordate-ovate, acute, as long as the superior radicle. 

 (Thwaites.) \ fc 



2. Xi. malaccensis, Mast. ; leaves oblong-lanceolate abruptly acumi- 

 nate, calyx puberulous, petals coherent. 



i\ I A L ACC A , Maingay. 



A scandent shrub (Maingay). Leaves 4^-5^ by 2 in., coriaceous, glabrous, midrib 

 prominent, secondary nerves obscure; petiole scarcely 4 in. Cymes axillary, s'. 

 peduncle compressed, as long as the petiole; pedicels shorter than the flowers, ascending. 

 Ffmuers \ in. Calyx shallow, lobes deltoid acute. Petal* 4-5 tunes longer than the 

 calyx, slightly coherent, externally glabrous, linear, spotted within. Filaments Hat, 



