Helicia.} THYMEL ACEH. . 905 
caducous or 0. Perianth-tube slender; limb hardly wider than 
tube, straight, ovate or oblo ong ; ane a when flower 
Opens. Stamens 4, opposite perianth-segm ; filaments short ; 
anthers oblong; connective shortly appendages Disk sit 
8ynous, of 4 scales, free, or confluent a cup ann 
Ovary sessile ; ovules 2, basal or lateral, end aetied! preen this 
middle ; style long, straight, with slightly thickened tip; stigma 
terminal. Frwit a subglobose, hard nut. Seeds solitary, sub- 
globose or 2, hemispheric ; testa rugose or veine 
1790. Heticta excensa BL; F. B. I. v. 191. Rhapala excelsa 
F, I. i. 863. 
Chittagong. 
A large tree. 
Order CXI. THYMELZACEZ. 
Shrubs or small trees, with tough, fibrous bark. Leaves alter- 
nate or opposite, simple, quite entire. Flowers hermaphrodite or. 
by abortion, polygamous or rarely dicecious, in axillary or terminal 
heads, umbels, clusters or racemes. Perianth regular, often 
Corolline, tubular or campanulate; limb 4-5-lobed; segments 
imbricate in bud, often with 1 or 2 scales at the base. Stamens as 
many or twice as many as lobes of perianth, rarely half as many 
a8 lobes, adnate to perianth-tube, those opposite the lobes sot dss 
attached above the alternate ones; filaments short, r 
long as anthers ; anthers erect, 2-locular ; cells Sarai piste 
‘ongitudinal, Disk dation oeere annular ar, cup-shaped, scaly or 
lete, Carpels forming superior 1-, rarely 2- -celled, very 
istinct- membranous tegmen; albumen fleshy, copious, or 0; 
embryo stig: cotyledons fleshy, usually thick ; radicle short, 
Superior 
Sap indehiscent ; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; shrubs ; leaves opposite :— 
906) 
tStamens 8, 2-seriate ; filaments short; disk of linear scales ; perianth- 
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