Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. '2,11 



oblong, obtuse, testa very faintly wrinkled. Lamk 111. t. ISd ; Wall. 

 Cat. 4398 ; W. & A. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. II. 193, t. 26 ; Wight 

 111. t. 167, and Ic. t. 601 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. X. 180 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. PI. 170 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. 11. 633 ; Clarke in Hook. f. PL Br. 

 Ind. IV. 133 ; Trimen PI. Ceyl. III. 191. Cooke Bomb. PI. II. 197 ; 

 Prain Beng. Plants 711. H. javanica, Blume Bijdr. 725. Nama 

 zeylanica, Linn. Sp. PI. 226; Eoxb. PI. Ind. II. 73. " Tsjeru Vallel," 

 Eheede Hort. Mai. X. t. 28. 



Pekak : Wray 2571, 3336; Scortechini ; Bidley 2906 ; King's Col- 

 lector 391, 2577. — DiSTRiB. Throughout India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam,. 

 Java, Malaya, China, the Philippines ; also in Australia, tropical Africa 

 and America, in wet places and rice-fields. 



Order LXXX. BOEAGINE^. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, often conspicuously hispid or scabrous. 

 Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite, ex-stipulate, usually entire, 

 rarely in verticils. Flowers usually in scorpioid dichotomous cymes, 

 sometimes trichotomously paniculate, rarely solitary and axillary, 

 bracteate or not, hermaphrodite. Calyx inferior, 5-lobed (rarely 6- to 

 8-lobed), the lobes imbricate, rarely valvate, usually persistent in fruit. 

 Corolla gamopetalous, of various forms, often with scales in the throat ; 

 the limb 5-lobed (rarely 4- to 6-lobed), the lobes imbricate, rarely 

 twisted. Stamens as many as the lobes and alternate with them, 

 inserted on the tube ; anthers ovate to linear, introrse ; filaments 

 slender, often dilated at the base. Disk under the ovary or obsolete. 

 Ovary superior, sessile, cells 2 with 2 ovules in each, or 4 with 1 ovule 

 in each ; style terminal or from the depression between the lobes of the 

 ovary, long or short ; stigma entire and capitate or 2-lobed, the style 

 rarely twice bifid ; ovules sub-erect from the basal angle of the cell. 

 Fruit drupaceous with a hard 2- to 4-celled endocarp or dividing into 

 2 or 4 nutlets with thin or fleshy walls. Seeds erect or oblique, with 

 membranous testa and fleshy albumen or ex-albuminous ; embryo 

 curved or straight, radicle superior. — Disteib. Universal. Species 

 about 1,500. 



Styles twice partite ; drupe 4-1-seeded ; trees or shrubs ; calyx 



enlarging in fruit .. .. .. .. ..1. Cokdia. 



Styles simple or only bi-partite ; rarely [Coldenia) 2 or more and 

 distinct ; drupe including two 2-seeded or four 1-seeded pyrenes ; 

 calyx only slightly or not at all enlarged in fruit : — 



Styles depressed-conical at the apex or with a horizontal ring 



below or at the stigmas : — 



