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mesocarp fibrous ; cells 4, 5 ; seeds affixed to vertex of central 

 columella, oblong curved ; embryo exalbuminous. — A lofty tree ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate sublanceolate entire coriaceous penninerved 

 reticulate-veined, persistent; racemes terminating axillary few- 

 flowered twigs; flowers fasciculate in dense hirsute tubercle. 

 (Banca, Java, Sumatra})'''^ 



5. Octolepis Oliv.2 — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle flat 

 subcupular. Sepals 4, subperigynous, imbricate. Stamens 8, 

 inserted in two series with the perianth ; filaments free subulate ; 

 anthers ovate or ovately-cordate introrse; cells 2, longitudinally 

 rimose. Squamules 8, inserted and alternating with the stamens, 

 entire obtuse, pilose, valvate in the bud. Germen sessile ovoid 

 hirsute, 4-celled ; style terminal short, at apex stigmatose dilated 

 openly 4-lobed ; ovule in cells 1, descending from top of internal 

 angle. Fruit. . . ?— -^^ A small tree; leaves alternate petiolate 

 obovate-lanceolate apiculate, entire or widely denticulate mem- 

 branous; flowers^ axillary fasciculate few pedicellate." {Trop. 

 west, Africa*) 



II. THYMELE^. 



6. Linostoma "Wall. — Flowers hermaphrodite apetalous regular; 

 perianth tube (receptacle?) obconical (coloured), deciduous; lobes 5, 

 equal, imbricate, finally patulous. Stamens 10, inserted in throat, 

 in 2-series, 5 oppositipetalous, a little longer ; filaments free exserted 

 subulate ; anthers oblong introrse obtuse, 2-rimose. Squamules 10, 

 inserted in throat alternately with stamens, oblong-linear, attenuate 

 at base, at apex subentire, obtuse or more or less incised, finally 

 erect and exserted. Germen sessile in bottom of tube, girt at base 

 by 10 minute hypogynous glandules opposite the stamens, ovoid 

 hirsute 1-locular ; style terminal slender exserted, at apex stigmatose 

 capitate ; ovule 1, parietally inserted, descending, anatropous ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit dry ('^drupaceous") bare, 

 indehiscent ; albumen of descending seed but slightly fleshy ; radicle 

 of somewhat thickened embryo superior. — Shrubs sometimes sub-* 

 scandent ; leaves opposite entire penninerved exstipulate ; floral 



1 Spec. 1. G. bancanus. — G. Miquelianus Eumph. Eerh. Amboin. ii. 402. 



Teysm. et BiNN. loc, cit. — Aquilaria ? bancana 2 Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 161, t. 12. 



Mia. Fl.Ind.-Bai. Suppl. i. 355.—^. macro- ^ " White," small. 



phyUa MiQ. loc. eit. — Agallochum spurium ^ Spec. 1. 0. Casearia Oliv. loc. cit. 



