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3. Ertthrospermum, Lamarck. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, quite entire. Flowers racemed, 

 fascicled or panicled, 2-sexual. Sepals 4-6, imbricate in bud. Petals 

 4-6, usually small. Stamens 4-6 ; anthers lanceolate-sagittate, connec- 

 tive dilated. Ovary 1-celled ; style short, stigma entire or 3-4-fid ; 

 ovules many, on 3-4 parietal placentas. Capsule coriaceous, 3-4-valved ; 

 valves bearing the seeds on the middle. Seeds few, testa coriaceous or 

 fleshy ; embryo incurved. Distrib. Species about 8, of which 6 are 

 Mascarene, one is from Ceylon, and the following Malayan. 



E. ScORTECHiNii, King n. sp. A small glabrous tree, the branchlets 

 lenticellate. Leaves thickly membranous, broadly ob-lanceolate, abrupt- 

 ly shortly and bluntly acuminate, faintly crenate-serrate, the base slight- 

 ly narrowed ; nerves 5 to 6 pairs, thin, anastomosing -25 in. from the 

 margin; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 2*5 in.; petiole *5 in. ; Stipules 

 caducous. Hacemes two to four in a lax terminal panicle, 3 to 4 in. 

 long in flower, and twice as long in fruit. Ovary glabrous, 12 — 20 ovuled ; 

 style glabrous ; stigma 3-lobed. Capsules on thin pedicels '5 in. long, 

 globular, smooth, "35 in., in diam., crowned by the conical style with 

 3-cleft stigma, 3-valved, 1-seeded. Seed sub-globular with red pulp. 



Perak. Scortechini. 



This species was collected only once by Father Scortechini ; and 

 he found no flowers. He describes it as a tree 30 to 40 feet high. 

 No species of the genus has hitherto been described from any 

 Malayan province, Ceylon being the nearest country in which one is in- 

 digenous. 



4. Flacourtia, Commers. 



Trees or shrubs, often spinous. Leaves toothed or crenate. Flow- 

 ers small, dioecious, rarely 2-sexual. Sepals 4-5, small, imbricate. Petals 

 0. Stamens many ; anthers versatile. Ovary on a glandular disk ; 

 styles 2 or more, stigmas notched or 2-lobed ; ovules usually in pairs 

 on each placenta. Fruit indehiscent ; endocarp hard, with as many cells 

 as seeds. Seeds obovoid, testa coriaceous ; cotyledons orbicular. Dis- 

 trib. About 12 species, natives of the Old World, some being cultivated 

 in various tropical countries. 



Flacourtia Rukam, Zoll. et. Moritzi Verz. 33. A tree; the young 

 branches puberulous and lenticellate. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 membranous, shortly acuminate, slightly and remotely crenate-serrate, the 

 base narrowed, glabrous except the puberulous petiole and midrib ; nerves 

 7 to 8 pairs ; length 4 to 5*5 in., breadth 2 to 2*5 in., petiole "3 in. Ba- 

 cemes three times as long as the petioles, axillary, pubescent, bracteolate, 



