pigs Sa oa AI a RY eee ne aI PIR TT ras 
PRES SN rate eee 
at : 
the base, valyate. Stamens 4-8 (in our species 
~ Marlea. CORNACEA. 545 
_ Petals 0 or 4-5, occasionally many, epigynous, imbricate or val- 
_ Yate. Stamens inserted with and as many as, rarely 2-4 times as 
_ Many as the petals; anthers short or long; dehiscence longi- 
‘ ‘tudinal, introrse or lateral. Ovary inferior, 1-4-locular, crowned 
* . disk; style simple, short or long; stigma capitate or 
branched ; ovules in each locule solitary, very rarely 2-3, pendu- 
lous from apex, anatropous. Fruit usually drupaceous, with a 
: solitary, 14-celled pyrene, less often with 2 pyrenes. Seed oblong, 
se albumen fleshy; embryo axial, sometimes minute, 
sometimes with leafy cotyledons. 
Pe Stamens twice or thrice as many as petals ; cotyledons corrugate 
Alangium. 
: Stamens as many as petals; cotyledons flat .........seeseesssererreres Marlea. 
400. Alangium Lamk. 
Ps 6-10, linear, oblong, valvate in bud, reflexed in flower. 
c: ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit a 1-seeded berry, 
owned by the somewhat accrescent calyx-limb. Seed oblong ; 
umen ruminate ; embryo with leafy, corrugate cotyledons. 
95. Atanctum Lamarcumt Thw.; F. B. I. ii. 741; E. D. A 661, 
A. hexapetalum F. I. ii. 502 
Behar; Chota Nagpur; W. Bengal. 
A small tree, reaching 20-25 feet high, often only & 
Shrub, Hind. Akola; Beng. Ankura; Uriya Ankula ; 
Santal. Dela. 
401. Marlea Roxb. 
oe or shrubs; leaves alternate, petioled, orbicular = See 
,, ®2 oblique base. Flowers hermaphrodite, 1 — 
cymes ; pedicels jointed. Sepals connate in @ toothed or 
truncate cal free 
itn - or somewhat 
. yx-tube. Petals 4-8, linear, almost always 
