376 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Leaves simple, often vertieillate ; calyx usually more or less 



bilabiate . . . . . . . . . . 6. Diplanthera. 



Anther-cells 1 perfect, 1 reduced to a small hook ; a tall tree 

 with 2-3-pinnate leaves and very long narrowly -linear corolla- 

 tube.. .. .. .. .. ..7. MiLLINGTONIA. 



1. Oboxylum, Vent. 



A glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, large, 2-3-pinnate ; leaflets entire. 

 Flowers large, in a long, stout, terminal raceme. Calyx large, leathery, 

 campanulate, truncate or obscurely toothed, persistent. Corolla large, 

 fleshy ; tube campanulate-ventricose ; lobes 5, 2 in upper, 3 in lower 

 lip, recurved, toothed, crumpled. Stamens 5 inserted near base of tube, 

 posterior one the shortest. Anthers 2-celled; cells parallel, oblong. 

 Disk large, cushion-like. Ovary sub-sessile, contracted at the base, 

 compressed ; style slender ; stigma 2-lobed ; ovules in 4 vertical rows 

 on each placenta, very many. Capsule very large, broadly linear, 

 compressed parallel to the septum, septifragally 2-valved. Seeds very 

 many, flattened, surrounded by a broad hyaline wing. — Disteib. A 

 single S.E. Asiatic species. 



Oeoxylum indicum. Vent. Dec. Gen. Nov. 8 (1808). A small tree, 

 reaching 30 to 40 feet in height, with a clean bole and few branches or 

 often none, the head bearing leaves only ; branches thick ; bark some- 

 what fleshy ; pith large. Leaves extremely large, 1-3-pinnate, the 

 lower 3-, middle ones 2-, upper 1-pinnate ; 3 to 5 feet long, triangular in 

 outline ; rachis smooth, striate, stout, swollen at the base (pulvinus) and 

 joints ; primary pinnae about 45 pairs, the lower ones 2-pinnate at base, 

 pinnules 3- to 5-foliolate ; leaflets ovate, entire, acuminate at apex, side 

 ones rounded and often unequal at base, terminal one cuneate at base ; 

 3 to 6 in. long, 2 to 2-5 in. broad ; main-nerves 4 to 5 pairs ; petiolules 

 slender, -2 to '3 in. long. Baceme branch-like, 2 to 3 feet long, very thick, 

 lower part prominently marked with the ovate scars of fallen pedicels ; 

 pedicels '5 in. long, stout ; bracteoles fused with pedicels. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, 1 in. long, fleshy, truncate, with 5 short teeth. Corolla fleshy, 

 2-5 in. long, yellowish ; lobes much crumpled, red, villous on both sides. 

 Stamens 5, shortly exsert ; base of filaments woolly ; anthers divergent 

 below ; connective shortly mucronate. Disk fleshy, cupular, somewhat 

 lobed. Ovary oblong ; style slender, hollow, as long as the stamens ; 

 stigma 2-lobed, lobes rounded. Capsule shortly stalked, concave-flat, 

 elongate oblong, 1-5 to 2*5 feet long, 2-5 to 3-5 in. broad, scarcely 

 •3 in. thick, margins somewhat incurved, back keeled, valves woody, 

 septum flat. Seeds very many, flat, surrounded by a very thin, hyaline, 

 shining wing, somewhat rectangular in shape, 3 in. long, 1*5 in. 

 broad ; testa membranous ; cotyledons emarginate, oblong. Kurz For. 



