574 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Mastixia. 



3. MASTIXIA PENTANDRA, Bl. ; F. B. I. ii. 746. 



W. Coast and W. Ghats, in Canara and Malabar to Travan- 

 core, in evergreen forests and on river banks up to 1,000 ft. 

 A very large tree (Bourdillon) with elliptic-oblong leaves 

 up to 6 in. long, 2*5 in. broad. Wood greyish- white, soft. 



III. COROLLIFLORAE, 



Sepals herbaceous, often connate in a usually persistent calyx, 

 more or less adnate to the ovary or free. Petals usually as many 

 as the sepals or sometimes fewer, usually 4-5, rarely 6 or more, 

 very rarely bi seriate, almost always combined in a corolla. 

 Stamens 1-seriate, as many as the petals or fewer, sometimes 

 biseriate and twice as many as the petals, sometimes but more 

 rarely indefinite; filaments usually adnate to the corolla-tube, 

 rarely free. Carpels usually connate, the styles free, sometimes 

 free and then the styles united. 



Family LXXXII. CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 



Small trees or shrubs, erect or climbing. Leaves opposite, 

 rarely alternate, simple lobed or imparipiimate ; stipules usually 

 0. Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or irregular, in cymes or 

 panicles. Calyx adnate to the ovary ; lobes 3-5, imbricate. 

 Petals connate in a tubular, funnel-shaped or rotate corolla, 

 5-fid, with imbricate lobes. Stamens 5, rarely 4, inserted on the 

 corolla-tube alternately with the lobes; filaments filiform or subu- 

 late ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 

 inferior, 2-8-, rarely 1-celled ; style terminal ; stigma.capitate, or 

 short with 2-5 lobes; ovules solitary, pendulous, or several 011 

 axile placentas. Fruit a drupe with 1-8 cartilaginous pyrenes or 

 a many-seeded Jberry. Seeds 1 or many in each cell; albumen 

 copious, fleshy ; embryo usually minute with ovate cotyledons. 

 Corolla-limb regular, flowers small ; ovary cells 1-ovuled ; stigma 



lobed 1 . Viburnum. 



Corolla-limb regular or irregular, flowers rather large ; ovary cells 

 many-ovnled ; stigma capitate 2. Lonicera. 



1. Viburnum, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled, simple or lobed, 

 entire dentate or serrate ; stipules inconspicuous or 0. Flowers 



