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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



ridges inside the tube ; anthers Hnear-oblong or sagittate, free or 

 connivent in a cone and adhering to the stigma by the connective ; 

 cells 2, longitudinally dehiscing, sometimes produced at the base in 

 barren spurs ; pollen granular, usually spherical, with 3 pores or 2 to 3 

 rounded protuberances. Disk none, or annular or cupular, or reduced 

 to 2 to 5 scales or glands. Ovary superior, free or somewhat adnate 

 to the disk, 1-celIed with 2 parietal placentas, or 2-celled with axile 

 placentas, or of 2 distinct or partially connate carpels ; ovules in each 

 cell 2 or few or many and 2- to oo-seriate, rarely solitary, anatropous, 

 usually pendulous ; style 1, entire or divided at the base; stigma various, 

 usually ending in a bifid apiculus and frequently with a ring or other 

 appendages, often viscous. Fruit a dry or fleshy drupe, berry or 

 samara, or of two baccate or follicular mericarps. Seeds various, often 

 compressed, sometimes winged, sometimes with a tuft of hairs at one 

 or both ends ; testa coriaceous, crustaceous or membranous ; albumen 

 hard, fleshy or scanty or none ; embryo straight ; cotyledons flat, 

 concave, convolute or contorted ; radicle superior. — Distrib. Chiefly 

 tropical ; genera about 110 to 120 ; species probably about 1000, or 

 even more. 



Anthers included, free from the stigma, cells rounded at the 

 base ; corolla-lobes usually overlapping to the left : — 



Ovary of 2 wholly combined carpels, 1-2-celled ; fruit large, 

 usually fleshy or pulpy within ; seeds without wing or pencil 

 of hairs (coma) (Tribe I. Carisse^) : — 

 Ovary 1-celled, with parietal ovules : — 

 Fruit indehiscent ; albumen none . . . . 1. Willughbeia. 



Fruit 2-valved ; albumen present . . . . 2. Chilocarpus. 



Ovary 2-celled, with axile ovules : — 

 Flowers 4-merous ; albumen none ; corolla-throat naked 3. Leuconotis. 

 Flowers 5-merous ; albumen present ; corolla-throat with 

 lobed scales . . . . . . . . 4. Melodinus. 



Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, united by the style ; fruit various, 

 seeds peltate (Tribe II. PiiUMERiEiE) : — 



Calyx eglandular within; carpels 1-2-, rarely 4-6-ovuled ; 

 fruit of 2 1-seeded drupes or berries, rarely moniliform 

 (Subtribe 1. EauwolfiiNje) : — 

 Leaves usually whorled : — 

 Albumen ruminate ; erect or climbing shrubs with 

 more or less coriaceous leaves . . . . . . 5. Alyxia. 



Albumen even; erect shrubs with fleshy or soft leaves, 



membranous when dry . . . . . . 6. Eauwolfia. 



Leaves opposite ; disk none ; albumen smooth . . 7. Hunteria. 



Calyx glandular within : — 



Carpels 2-, rarely 4 ovuled, ovules on opposite sides of a 

 thick placenta; fruit a 1- or 2-seeded drupe or berry 

 (Subtribe 2. CERDEr.iNffi) : — 



