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TERMINALIA. 



* Fruit a fleshy drupe, with a ben;/ putawen, compressed or obsoleteli/ angular, 



Inflorescence quite glabrous. 



All parts quite glabrous ; petioles very short ; racemes simple; drupes compressed,?'. Catappa. 



As former, but drupes obsoletely 5-angular, red inside , ...^ T.procera. 



Inflorescence puberulous or iomentose. 



Leaf-buds rusty villous; leaves obovate, petioles 2-3 in. long; drupes obovate, usually 

 silky pubescent, . . ._ T. Bellerica. 



Young shoots and underside of short-petioled oblong leaves rusty villous ; ovary villous ; 

 drupes oval, glabrous, T. Chebula. 



As former, but ovary quite glabrous, the flowers and fruits much smaller, T. tomentella. 



Very young shoots rusty-villous ; leaves smooth, on short petioles, acuminate. Drupes 

 oblong-lanceolate, obsoletely 5-cornered, T. citrina, 



* * Fruit a dry nut tcith a chartaceous or flbrous-coriaceous pericarp, compressed or 



3-5-cornered, 1-5-winged. 



O I^uts usually 3-cornered, the angles expanded into 2 equal, or 1-3 unequal 

 wings. 



All parts glabrous ; leaves obovate, petiole 2-3 in. long ; nut 2-winged, about 3 3| in. 



across T. bialata. 



As former, leaves smaller and shorter petioled; nuts 2-winged, only | f in. 



across, T. pyrifolia. 



Nuts 4-or 5-cornered, all angles equally produced into icings. 



All parts more or less greyish tomentose ; leaves prominently net-veined ; petioles short, -with 

 2 stalked turbinate glands, y. alata. 



All parts glabrous ; net-veination of leaves not prominent ; petioles short, with 2 stalked 

 turbinate glands; inflorescence glabrous to almost tomentose, T. crenulata. 



COMBRnUM. 



Flowers 5-merous ; petals none ; calyx infundibuliform-cupshaped ; inflorescence greyish 

 velvety , C. apetalum. 



ANOGEISSUS. 



Leaves obovate, retuse or blunt, glabrous; flower-heads several together on branched 



peduncles, A. lati/olius. 



Leaves acuminate, at least while young pubescent ; flower-heads solitary, . . , ,A. acuminatus. 



LUMNITZERA. 



Flowers white ; stamens 10, about as long as the petals, L. racemosa. 



Flowers crimson, stamens 5 or 10, twice as long as the petals, L. coccinea. 



BYROCARPUS-Only species Q. Jacquini. 



MYRTACE^, 



Conspectus of genera. 



Fruit a capsule, opening at top into as many valves as cella to the ovary, very rarely indehiscent. 

 Melaleuca. Stamens united in 5 free phalanges alternating with the petals. Flowers in heads or spikes. 

 Tbistania. Stamens united in 5 bundles opposite to the petals. Flowers in cymes. 



Fruit an indehiscent berry or rarely a drape. Leaves opposite, dotted. 



O Calyx-limb closed or almost imbricate-lobed in bud, in the expanded flower deeper valvately 

 divided. 

 PsiDiUM. Ovary 2- or more-celled. Ovules in many series. Embryo circinate. 



O Calyx-limb 4.or 5-lobed in bud, closed, in expanding often falling off in an entire oalyptra. 

 Nblitris. Ovary 5- or rarely 4-celled, with 2 to 6-ovules in each cell. Embryo long and narrow, curved circular or 



spiral, with small cotyledons. 

 Eugenia. Ovary 2- or 3-celled, with several ovules in each cell, without spurious dissepiments. Embryo thick and 

 fleshy, either indivisible or with 2 thick fleshy cotyledons and a short radicle. 



* Fruit woody, fibrous or fleshy, indehiscent. Leaves alternate, not dotted. 

 BaRRINOtonia. Stamens all perfect. Fruit angular, fibrous, 1-feeded. 



Careta. Outer or inner stamens, or both, without anthers. Fruit ovoid or globular, fleshy, with several seeds 

 imbedded in pulp. 



BEIALEUCA-Only species M. leucadendron. 



TRISTANIA. 



Calyx-lobes blunt or nearly so. 



