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Leares peiioled, aoamiDate at both ends ; panicles oluster-Iike reduced, lateral, E. Mfdaeeeiuit. 

 X X Floicers tndy or spuriously pedicelled. 



+ Leaves whorled by threes, narroic, obtuse at base. 



Leaves linear-lanoeolate, almost sessile or very shortly petioled ; petals 4-16, . . E. polypetala. 

 + + Leaves opposite. 



t Leaves rounded at base. Fruits obversely turbinate, waxy, ic/tite 

 or rose-coloured. 



Branchlets usually 4-oomered and often wingedly so, white or pale-coloured ; leaves acumi- 

 nate, the marginal nerves as stronp as the nerves themselves, E. aquea. 



Sranohlets terete, brown ; leaves bluntish, the marginal nerve faint, ,,.... Javanica. 



1 1 Leaves acute at base, narrow, petioled. 

 Berries almost globular or ovoid, dull-yellow, E. Jamhos. 



BARRINGTONIA. 



* Calyx in bud closed, entire, valvately rupturing in 2-4 lobes. Flowers pedicelled. 



X F)-uit with appendages, angular. 



Flowers about 3 in. in diameter or larger, in corymb-like short erect racemes ; leaves entire, 

 sessile, B. Asiatica. 



Flowers about an in. in diameter, in long slender pendulous racemes ; leaves crenulate, very 

 short petioled, ,..B. racemosa. 



X X FVuit conically pyramided, icith short wing-like appendages at the base. 



Leaves crenulate ; racemes rather erect, puberulous, B. conoidea. 



* Calyx already in bud S-4i-cleft, the lobes imbricate. 



X Flower pedicelled; rachia of raceme slender ; fruits sharply ^-cornered. 



Glabrous or slightly pubescent ; flowers red, rather small ; leaves crenulate, short- 

 petioled, B. acutangula. 



X X Flowers sessile, the rachia of the raceme very thick and almost fleshy. 

 + Calyx-tube winged ; fruit narrowly winged along the corners. 



Leaves blunt or acute at the base, not decurrent ; calyx-lobes rounded, 2 lin. long,5. angusta. 

 Leaves long-deourrent and acuminate at the base ; calyx-lobes 3-angular-ovate, more or less 



acute, more than 3 lin. long, B. pferocarpa. 



+ -I- Calyx-tube angular, not winged {fruit unknown). 



Leaves entire, elongate, long-petioled, , ,., ,t,..E. macrostachya. 



CAREYA. 



X Flowers on long pedicels. 



TJndershrub ; berry only an in. thick ; seeds about 3 lin. long, C. herbacea. 



X X Flmcers sessile. Trees. 



Petals blunt or rounded at apex, concave. Ovules in 2 rows in each cell, C. arborea. 



Petals acute, the borders revolute ; ovules in 6 rows in each celll, C. sphaerica. 



PIAMCHOKIA.-Only species, , P. valida. 



MELASTOMACE^. 



Conspecttts of genera. 



* Anthers opening by 1 or 2 apical pores. 



Mklastoma. Ovary adnata to the calyx. Anthers unequal, 10-14. Fruit a berry. 



Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. 



Memectlon. Anthers 8. Ovary l-celled, the placenta central and free. Berry l-seeded. 



MELASTOMA. 



Lieaves more or less adpressed bristly-hairy or pubescent, calyx covered with closely appressed 

 chaffy Bcale-like bristles of 1 lin. length, t M, nor male. 



MEMECYLON. 



* Calyx radiately nerved within, the nerves raised and lamellate like the gills of a 

 mushroom. 

 O Leaves more or less thick coriaceous tcithout visible lateral veins. 



t Leaves with cordate or rounded base, sessile or on very short thick 

 petioles. Flowers conspicuous. Branchlets terete. 



