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by short filaments on the mouth of the corolla ; anthers bifid at base 

 and apex, slightly exserted. Ovary 2- (rarely 3-) celled; ovules numer- 

 ous on peltate placentas attached to the septum : style filiform ; stigmas 

 2, exserted, linear, revolute. Capsule small, globose, crustaceous, 2- 

 celled, dehiscing septicidally by 2 valves. Seeds falcate or rather 

 square, somewhat compressed ; the testa reticulate and sub-acute ; 

 embryo small, clavate, in fleshy albumen. — Distrib. Species 5 or 6, 

 Malayan and Burmese. 



Greenia Jackh, W. &A. Prod. 404. An evergreen shrub. Leaves 

 oblanceolate, minutely acuminate, gradually narrowed from above the 

 middle to the short petiole, drying brown : upper surface with the 

 midrib minutely pubescent; otherwise sparsely adpressed-puberulous, or 

 quite glabrous ; lower surface softly tawny-pubescent, especially on the 

 midrib and 20 to 30 pairs of slightly curved, spreading main-nerves, or 

 subglabrous ; length 6 to 12 in. ; breadth 2 to 3*5 in, ; petioles *4 to 1 

 in., pubescent. Stipules broad, abruptly acuminate, *4 in. long, or 

 broadly lanceolate and about *6 in. long. Panicles terminal, branched, 

 shorter than the leaves, on long, compressed, pubescent peduncles, the 

 lower branches nearly as long. Flowers numerous, secund, sessile, '3 to 

 •35 in. long ; the corolla several times longer than the calyx. Capsule 

 globose, less than '1 in. in diam. crowned by the spreading calyx-lobes; 

 the epicarp adpressed, pubescent, peeling off and showing the glabrous 

 endocarp. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 4L. Rondeletia corymbosa, Jack in 

 Mai. Misc. I. 4; B. spicata t Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. 

 II. 139. Wendlandia ? corymbosa, Wall. Cat. 6276 ; DC. Prod. IV. 413; 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burma. II. 75 ; W. ? spicata, DC. I.e. 412. 



In all the Provinces. 



Rather variable as regards pubescence and the shape of the stipules : differs 

 from the closely allied Q. Wightiana, W. & A., chiefly in its leaves, having twice as 

 many nerves as that species. 



10. Dentella, Forst. 



A small prostrate much*branched herb with 4-angled stems thinner 

 than a crow-quill, rooting at the nodes, 4 to 12 inches long. Leaves small, 

 shortly petioled ; the stipules short, scarious. Flowers small, solitary 

 in tbe axils of the leaves and forks of the branches, sessile or shortly 

 pedicelled. Calyx-tube sub-globose; the limb membranaceous, tubular, 

 toothed, persistent. Corolla white, funnel-shaped ; the tube hairy inside : 

 the limb with five 2- or 3-toothed lobes, valvate in the bud, but with the 

 edges induplicate. Stamens 5, attached in the middle of the corolla- 

 tube ; anthers included, dorsifixed, linear, entire at base and apex ; 

 filaments short. Ovary 2- celled, with numerous ovules or hemispheric 



