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nerves occasional; reticulations minute; petiole '1 to 'IS in. long, 

 bordered by the decurrent margins of tlie blade. Cymes axillary, 

 corymbose, pubescent, 1'5 to 2-5 in. in diameter, on peduncles "5 to 

 •75 in. long ; bracts linear-oblong or spathulate ; bracteoles linear, 

 •15 in. long, on the pedicels below the flower ; pedicels slender ; flowers 

 white ; buds clavate. Calyx-\ohe% Unear-oblong, -25 in. long, rounded 

 or acute at top, ciliate, pubescent, with 2 glands at the base within ; 

 tube almost none. C'oroZ/a-tube slender, slightly inflated near the 

 base opposite the stamens, contracted at the mouth, -4 in. long, ciliate 

 on the edges, pubescent on both surfaces ; lobes oblong, rounded at top, 

 narrowed at the base, the margins infolded in bud, pubescent on both 

 sides. Anthers •05 in. long, mucronate. Ovary of 2 distinct glabrous 

 carpels ; style very short ; stigma fusiform, bifid, below the anthers. 

 Follicles brown, straight, terete, 6 in. long, -2 in. broad, only little 

 divergent. Seeds oblong, keeled on one side, concave on the other, 

 •4 in. long; coma golden-brown, up to 1'5 in. long. 



Siamese States : Trang, at 100 to 200 feet, Kunstler 1402 ; Curtis 

 3392. — DiSTEiB. N. Siam {F. H. Smiles), Cambodia {Godefroy- 

 Lebceuf 189). 



14. Eevatamia, Stapf. 



Shrubs or small trees, usually glabrous ; branchlets usually dicho- 

 tomous. Leaves opposite, herbaceous to coriaceous, usually membranous 

 when dry ; axillary stipules usually distinct ; axillary glands small, 

 often numerous. Flowers smaU to middle-sized, sometimes showy, in 

 terminal, pseudo-terminal or axillary cymes, usually corymbose and 

 often in pairs ; branches dichotomous. Calyx small ; lobes 5, fi-ee or 

 connate at the base, glandular or not within. Corolla salver-shaped ; 

 tube cylindric, slightly dilated at the mouth or rarely lower, opposite 

 the stamens ; lobes overlapping to the left, rarely to the right. Stamens 

 erect, included ; filaments short, usually decurrent in ridges inside the 

 tube ; anthers Unear, bilobed at base, acute or mucronate, dehiscing 

 throughout their length. Dish 0. Ovary of 2 carpels, distinct or 

 slightly cohering ; style long, filiform ; stigma clavate, with a slender 

 bifid apiculus ; ovules numerous, pluriseriate. Fruit of two follicular 

 mericarps, obliquely ovoid to lanceolate or cylindric-lanceolate, often 

 curved and beaked, sometimes 1- to 3-keeled ; dehiscing along the 

 ventral suture and at length often opening out flat. Seeds few to 

 many, enveloped in a bright-coloured aril, more or less irregidarly 

 ellipsoid, grooved or hollowed ventrally ; testa crustaceous, finely 

 sulcate, the furrows protruded into the copious often waxy albumen ; 

 cotyledons flat, cordate ; radicle cylindric. — Disteib. Species about 



