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small, in fascicles in the axils of the leaves or of the scars of fallen 

 leaves, sub-sessile or shortly pedicelled. Calyx of 5-6 imbricate, 

 usually orbicular and obtuse segments. Corolla campanulate, or 

 tubulai'-campanulate, with 5 or rarely 6 lobes, the lobes imbricate. 

 Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and opposite to them, attached 

 to the tube or at its base ; filaments linear, usually short ; anthers ovate 

 or lanceolate ; staminodes alternating with the stamens, lanceolate. 

 Ovary usually villous, with 5 or fewer cells ; style cyhndric ; stigma 

 small ; ovules erect, placentas axile. Fruit an ovoid or globose fleshy 

 berry, 5- or less-seeded, usually with one seed only. Seeds compressed, 

 generally solitary ; testa hard, crustaceous, usually shining ; hilum 

 oblong or linear ; embryo erect, cotyledons flat or thickened, in fleshy 

 albumen ; radicle short, inferior. — Distrib. About 60 species, mostly 

 of tropical regions in both hemispheres, a few only extratropical in 

 South Africa or Australasia. 



Leaves more than 3 in. broad, yellowish when dry, main-nerves 



very prominent . . . . . . . . . . 1. S. malaccense. 



Leaves under 3 in. broad, green or brown when dry : — 



Leaves nearly glabrous, membranous, obovate-acuminate . . 2. S. Maingayi. 

 Leaves pubescent beneath, at least on the nerves : — 

 Corolla-tube longer than the lobes ; leaves elliptic, grey-silky 

 beneath . . . . . • . . .. 3. S. Derryanum. 



Corolla-tube shorter than the lobes : — 

 Leaves obovate, main-nerves not very prominent or 

 regular . . . . . . . . . . i. S. ferrugineum. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, main-nerves very prominent and 



regular . . . . . . . . .. 5. S. firmum. 



SPEcrES IMPERFECTLY KNOWN : 6. S. WallicManum. 



1. SiDEROXYLON MALACCENSE, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 537 (1882). A large tree, reaching 40 to 60 feet in height ; branches pale 

 brown ; ultimate branchlets ferruginous-pubescent, as are the leaf-buds 

 and young leaves. Leaves coriaceous ; often, not always, crowded 

 towards the ends of the branchlets ; obovate-oblong, rounded or shortly 

 acute at apex, somewhat cuneate at base ; deep-green above, pale 

 bluish-green beneath, yellow when dry, densely rusty-pubescent beneath 

 when young, glabrous on both surfaces when old except for rusty hairs 

 on the midrib and main-nerves beneath ; 6 to 8 in. long, 3 to 4*5 in. 

 broad; midrib very thick and prominent ; main-nerves 8-14 pairs, very 

 prominent, starting at about an angle of 60° with the midrib, parallel at 

 first, ultimately arched upwards ; reticulations not prominent, obHquely 

 joining the main-nerves ; petiole 1 to 1*5 in. long, thick, enlarged at 

 base, bordered above by the slightly decurrent margins of the blade. 

 Flotoers fasciculate, shortly pedicelled, in the axils of the leaves, above 



