LXXII CORNACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 741 



Stamens twice or thrice the petals. Cotyledons crumpled . . . 1. ALANGIUM. 

 Stamens equalling the petals in number. Cotyledons flat ... 2. MARLEA. 



ft Petals short or oblong. 



Ovary 2-celled 3. CORJOTS. 



Ovary 1-celled 4. MASTIXLA. 



** Flowers unisexual. 

 t Leaves opposite. 

 Petals 4. Stamens 4 . ^ .......... * ... ^ ... 5. AUCUBA, 



ft Leaves alternate. 



Ovary 1-celled. Flowers in dense heads 6. NTSSA. 



Ovary 4- celled. Flowers in large panicles ......... 7- TORICELLTA.. 



1. AX.ANGXT7XK, Lamk. 



Shrubs or small trees, armed or not. Leaves alternate-, petioled, oblong, 

 entire, 3-nerved at the base, persistent. Flowers in axillary fascicles or con- 

 densed cymes, hermaphrodite, silky, white, jointed on the pedicel ; bracts 0. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, limb 5-lCHaothed or truncate. Petals 5-10, 

 linear-oblong, valvate, then reflexed. Stamens twice as many as the petals or 

 more, filaments hairy ; anthers very long. Ovary inferior,. 1-celled, surmounted 

 by a disc ; style very long, stigma large, capitate ; ovule pendulous. Fruit a 

 berry, crowned by the somewhat enlarged calyx-limb. Seed oblong, albumen 

 ruminated ; cotyledons leafy, crumpled ; radicls elongate. DISTOIB. Species 2 ; 

 tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa. 



The species with stamens equal in number to the petals in which the structure of 

 the embryo is unknown are here for convenience placed under Marlea ; Sir J. Hooker 

 {Gen. PL i. 949) has placed, them in Alangium, but till the embryo is known their 

 position must be uncertain. 



1. A. Lamarckii, Thwaites Enum. 133 ; calyx-tube in the bud not fur- 

 rowed, fruit ellipsoid quite smooth with slight vertical ribs when dry. Dalz. $ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 109 ; Brand. For. Fl. 250. A. decapetalum, Lamk. Diet. i. 

 174; DC. Prodr. iii. 203; Watt. Cat. 6884; W. $ A. Prodr. 325; Wight Ic. 

 t. 194 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 774 ; Kurz For. FL i. 543. A. hexapetalum,. 

 Lamk. $ DC. Ik.; Roxb. Hart. Beng. 38, Fl. Ind. ii. 502; Wall. Cat. 6883; 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 326; Wight III. t. 96. A. tomentosum, Lamk. fy DC. II. c. ; 

 Wall. Cat. 6885. A. sundanum, Kurz I. c. A. latifolium, Miq. in PL Hohe- 

 nack. No. 7lQRheede Hort. Mai. iv. tt. 17, 26. 



Throughout India from the N.W. HIMALAYA to CEYLON and TENASSERIM ; very 

 common. DISTRIB. Malaya and South China to the Philippines. East Africa. 



A small tree or rambling shrub, armed or not. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., oblong (A. 

 decapetalum}, or elliptic (A. hexapetalum), acute or subobtuse, the base unequal some- 

 what rounded, above nearly glabrous with pubescent nerves, beneath with more or 

 less scattered hair and often with tufts of hairs or hollow glands in the axils of the 

 primary nerves ; petiole % in., hairy, often villous or woolly. Flowers in small close 

 fascicles; peduncles pedicels and calyx-tube usually woolly. Calyx-limb minutely 

 toothed. Petals 5-10 usually 6-7, |-1& in- woolly without. Stamens about 20-30. 

 Style glabrous, uniformly cylindric, stigma large subglobose. Fruit H by f in., black, 

 closely pubescent or finally glabrous ; endocacp bony. The examples of A. sundanum 



