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stigmatic branches short, rather thick. Drupe 1- to 4-lobed according 

 to the number of pyrenes, about -5 in. in diam. ; exocarp fleshy, dark 

 blue ; pyrenes rounded except a slight flattening on the inner side, 

 smooth, -4 in. by -25 in. ; endocarp crustaceous. Seeds conform to the 

 pyrenes ; testa thin, soft ; cotyledons very fleshy ; radicle very small. 

 WaU. Cat. 1784 ; Wight 111. 1. 173 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 670 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 364 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 69 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 II. 883 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 595 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 

 II. 433 ; Prain Beng. Plants 836. G. verficillatum, Don Prodr. Fl. 

 Nep. 102; Schauer I.e. 671. Siphonanthus wcZica, Willd. Sp. PI. I. 

 606 ; Lamk. 111. t. 79, fig. 1 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 67. S. angustifolia, 

 Willd. I. c. Ovieda mitis, Burm. Fl. Ind. 136, t. 43, figs. 1, 2. 



Peeak : at Trong, Wray 3170. — Disteib. India, Burma, Java, 

 Sumatra, Celebes, Siam {Schoniburgk 302). Often cultivated in 

 gardens. 



15. Cleeodendeon Eidleyi, King & Gamble in Kev^ Bull. Ill 

 (1908). A small slender tree, reaching 15 ft. in height and 2 to 3 in. in 

 diam. ; branches smooth, pale brown ; branchlets (also rachis of in- 

 florescence) quadrangular, shining. Leaves opposite, membranous ; 

 elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate, caudate-acuminate at apex, rounded 

 or cuneate at base ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower pale ; margins 

 entire ; 3 to 7 in. long, 1 to 3 in. broad ; midrib slender, prominent 

 beneath ; main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, the lowest pair from close to the 

 base at an acute angle with the midrib, the rest more spreading, 

 meeting in a looped intramarginal nerve ; transverse nervules few, 

 irregular, other reticulations not visible ; petiole slender, -75 to 2 in. 

 long, winged by decurrent ridges from the base of the blade. Panicle 

 terminal, few-flowered, reaching with the peduncle at most 6 in. long 

 and 3 in. broad ; branches divaricate, 1 to 1-5 in. long ; bracts leafy, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, caducous; bracteoles linear; pedicels slender, 

 •25 in. long ; buds very long, clavate ; flowers white {Bidley) or pale 

 yellow (Kunstler). Calyx erect, deeply divided; lobes glabrous, lanceo- 

 late, caudate-acuminate, '5 to -7 in. long, often with scattered large 

 peltate glands ; fruiting calyx enlarged, enclosing the fruit, 1-5 in. in 

 diam. when opened out, deep red in colour. Corolla-tnhe cylindric, 

 slightly funnel-shaped at top, 3 to 3-5 in. long, very slender; lobes ob- 

 ovate, obtuse, -5 in. long, subequal. Stamens long-exsert ; anther-cells 

 parallel. Ovary glabrous, obtuse, 4-lobed ; style very long, slender ; 

 stigmatic lobes very short. Drupe deep red, smooth, globose, fleshy, 

 •5 in. in diam. with 4 to 1 pyrenes ; pyrenes pyriform, slightly ribbed ; 

 endocarp crustaceous. Seeds conform to the pyrenes ; testa membra- 

 nous ; cotyledons very thick, fleshy. 



