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saucer-shaped, in the ? lining the calyx tube and giving off an 
inner coronal lobed or dentate, rarely entire, + — conical annulus that 
encircles the upper part of the ovary and in fruit is adpressed to 
the outer portion of the disk. Stamens central, 5, with filaments 
united for some distance below to form a central column, free above 
and spreading ; anthers ovoid, erect in bud, versatile, with parallel 
cells dehiscing longitudinally; pistillode surmounting the staminal 
column, subconical usually 2-lobed. Ovary bilocular ; styles usually 
2, free or united for a variable distance, bifid above. J ruit drupa- 
ceous, on a persistent calyx, ovoid or globose, small, with 2 in- 
completely dehiscent 1-2-usually 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds with 
fleshy or membranous albumen; embryo straight or slightly curved ; 
cotyledons foliaceous, complanate. 
Distris. Tropical Africa, India, Indo-China, Philippines, 
Malayan Archipelago, Polynesia, Australia. 
Species about 50, of which 7 so far known from the Malayan 
Peninsula, 
Flower-clusters in axils of stipular bracts; 
2 disk bristly in flower and fruit fe .. J. B. stipularis, 
Flower clusters without stipular bracts ; 
@ disk glabrous. 
Lamina lanceolate, glaucous or subglaucous on the 
lower surface Kai ac 5G .. 2. B. tomentosa. 
Lamina ovate or elliptic, not glaucous on the lower 
surface. 
Lamina almost or entirely glabrous on the lower 
surface Me .. 93 B. ovata. 
Lamina tomentose or finely adpressedly pubes- 
cent on the lower surface. 
Fruits subglobose .. ate .. 4. B. pustulata. 
Fruits elliptical. 
Lamina softly rufous-tomentose on lower 
surface 5 +5 .. 5. B. cinnamomea. 
Lamina minutely adpressedly pubescent 
on lower surface. 
Flowers not very minute; 
9 petals rusty-hirsute .. .. 6. B. Griffithii. 
Flowers very minute ; 
@ petals glabrous or with only a hair 
or two oe 34 .. 7. B. penangiana. 
1. BripELia stTipuLaRis, Bl. Bijdr., 597 (1825). A large sub- 
scandent fulvous-tomentose shrub, with moderately sized elliptical 
to oblong-orbicular leaves. Twigs alternate, terete, glabrescent 
below, densely fulvous-tomentose above, |—4 mm. thick, with inter- 
