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GuiDONiA. Stamens 6 — 15, alternating with as many short staminodes. Flowers 

 clustered or in corymbs. 



Trih. II. EOMALIEJE. Calyx free or adnate to the ovary, 4 — 15-merous. Pe- 

 tals as many. Stamens 4 — 15, or if more arranged in clusters, hut always opposite 

 the petals, 



HoMALiuM. Petals as many as sepals. Ovary more or less adnate to the ovary 

 and inferior. 



Guidonia, Plum. 



(Gasearia, Jacq.) 



Conspectus of Species. 



* Filaments very slender, many times longer than the anthers. 



t Stamens and staminodes 8 each, separately inserted. 

 All parts glabrous ; leaves coarsely crenate ; flowers about 2 lin. across ; pedicels and 



calyx glabrous, , G. Canziala. 



Young shoots, calyx, and pedicels, and also often the nerves beneath of the serrulate 



leaves, puberulous ; flowers only a line across, G. glomerata. 



t t Stamens and staminodes 8 each, united at the base and forming a 

 broad disk round the ovary. 

 All parts, also the flowers and pedicels, more or less tomentose or puberulous, 



. . G. tomentosa. 



* * Filaments only as long as the anthers. 



All parts more or less puberulous ; stamens 8, G. Vareca. 



1. Gr. Canziala (Casearia Canziala, Wall. ap. Voigt Hort. Calc. 

 78 ; Casearia ovata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 428, non Willd.). 



Hab. Frequent in the mixed forests, especially the lower ones, all 

 over Pegu and Martaban. 



Casearia Hamiltonii, Wall. Cat. differs in the crenate leaves, and in 

 the number (10) of the stamens and staminodes. 



2. Gr. GLOMERATA, (Casearia glomerata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 419 ; 

 DC. Prod. II. 49). 



Var. a. glabeiijsctjla, leaves almost glabrous. 



Var. ^. PTJBERULA, leaves beneath on the nerves, the petioles &c., 

 puberulous. 



Hab. Var. ^. Chittagong (Hf. and Th.). 



3. G. Vaeeca, Baill. (Casearia Vareca, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 418 ; 

 C. Vareca, a^ertn. Fr. I. t. 60). 



Hab. Ava, Khakjen hills east of Bhamo (J. Anderson). — Fr. Apr. 



Homalium, Jacq. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



* Stamens solitary and opposite to the petals. Floivers racemose or spiked, often 



collected into panicles. 



X Flowers about 2 lin. in diameter. Ovary villous. 

 Leaves coriaceous, tomentose or puberulous beneath ; flowers tomentose, sessile ; spikes 

 robust, tomentose, , H. tomentosum. 



