354 LVIII. ARALIACEtE [Trevesia 



often cohering and coming off as a cap. Stamens and ovary-cells as many as 

 petals. Fr. fleshy, ovoid, £ in. diam., crowned by the stout style. 



Nepal. Sikkim Terai, banks of streams, ascending to 3,000 ft. Khasi hills. Chitta- 

 gong. Burma, Upper and Lower. Fl. Feb.-April, Yunnan. Malay Peninsula. 



Tupidanthus calyptratus, Hook. fil. & Thorns. Khasi hills. Burma, eastern slopes of 

 the Arakan Yoma, Terai of Shan hills. A large glabrous shrub, often developing into 

 a huge climber, wood hard. L. digitate, leaflets 7-9, coriaceous, entire, blade 4-7, pet. 

 1-2 in., common petiole 8-12 in. long, stipules connate within the petiole. Umbels 3-7- 

 fld., in a short panicle with stout branches, pedicels thick, not articulate. Fl. large, 

 resembling mallets, calyx-tube thickly coriaceous, petals connate, falling off in a cap, 

 stamens 50-70, crowded, ovary-cells numerous, narrow, up to 90, arranged on both sides 

 of a line which usually bifurcates at the ends. Stigmas linear, sessile, as many as 

 ovary cells. Fr. succulent, depressed, 1-1J in. diam. 



Order LIX. CORNACEiE. Gen. PI. i. 947. 



Shrubs or trees, 1. petiolate, entire, stipules 0. Fl. regular, calyx-tube 

 adnate to ovary, limb persistent, the segments small, open or valvate in 

 bud. Petals 4 or 5 inserted round an epigynous disk, stamens usually as 

 many as petals, ovary inferior 1-4-celled, one, rarely two pendulous ovules in 

 each cell. Fruit generally drupaceous with a 1-4-celled putamen or with 2 

 distinct stones. Embryo in a copious fleshy albumen, cotyledons generally 

 thin, foliaceous. 



A. Flowers bisexual, petals long, linear. 



Stamens more numerous than petals . . . .1. Alangium. 

 Stamens as many as petals ...... 2. Marlea. 



B. Flowers bisexual, petals short. 



Ovary 2-celled 3. Coknus. 



Ovary 1-celled 4. Mastixia. 



C. Flowers unisexual, 1. o]3posite Aucuba (p. 356). 



D. Flowers unisexual, 1. alternate. 



Fl. in dense heads, ovary 1-celled 5. Nyssa. 



Fl. in large pendulous panicles, ov. 3-5-celled . . Torricellia (p. 357). 



Fl. on the mid-rib of leaf, ov. 2-3-celled . .. . Helwingia (p. 357). 



1. ALANGIUM, Lam. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 741. 



Shrubs or small trees, 1. alternate, entire, penninerved, the lowest pair of 

 nerves from the base. Fl. white, bisexual, in axillary fascicles or cymes. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate, free portion short, truncate or 5-10-dentate. Petals 

 5-10, strap-shaped, valvate, afterwards reflexed. Stamens over 20, filaments 

 short, hairy, anthers linear, cells adnate to the connective and dehiscing laterally. 

 Ovary 1-celled, style filiform. Fr. crowned with the persistent calyx-limb. 

 Species 16, Tropical and Subtropical Asia and Africa. Australia. Polynesia. 



1. A. Lamarckii, Thwaites ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 215. — Syn.A hexapetalum, 

 Roxb. ; Wight 111. t. 96.; A. decajxtalum, Lamk. ; Wight Ic. t. 194. Vern. 

 Akola, Akhaul, Kweli, Hind. ; Ankol, Mar. ; Ankoia, Kan. ; Uru, Uddga, Tel. ; 

 Alangi, Tarn. 



A shrub or small tree, bark grey, wood fine-grained, tough and strong, 

 branchlets generally spinescent. L. membranous, varying exceedingly in 

 shape, from oblong to elliptic and obovate, from obtuse to acuminate, blade 3-6, 

 pet. ^-J in. long, pubescent while young, glabrous or pubescent on the under- 

 side when full grown. Fl. fragrant, solitary or fasciculate, pedicels and calyx 

 hairy, petals 1 in. long, 5-10, usually 6, hairy outside. Fr. § in. long, black 

 when ripe, seed enclosed in red pulp. Cotyledons large flat, with 3 basal 



