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King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Penin&ula. [No. 3r 



GUETTARI>A. 

 TiMONIDS. 



Knoxia. 



Canthidm. 

 Mesoptera. 



Ovules solitary in each cell ; ovary 2- to many-celled: — 

 Eadicle superior : — 



Ovules pendulous from the apex of the cell : — 



Fruit composed of several cohering woody pyrenes ; 

 stamens inserted on the mouth of the corolla- 

 tube : — 



Pyrenes 4 to 9 : corolla imbricate, calyx-limb 

 deciduous : shrubs or trees ... ... 32. 



Pyrenes 12 to 24 : corolla valvate ; calyx-limb 

 persistent, cupular : shrubs or trees ... 33. 



Fruit 2-celled, consisting of 2 dry small indehiscent 

 cocci ; herbs with connate setaceous stipules ... 34. 

 Ovules pendulous from the septum near its apex : — 

 Drupe with 2 free or cohering pyrenes ; trees or 

 shrubs with axillary inflorescence : — 



Stipules equal : shrubs (often climbing) ; drupe 

 didymous and 2-seeded or sub-globose and (by 

 abortion) 1-seeded ; seeds oblong ... ... 35. 



Stipules unequal, (one very large) ; seeds cup- 

 shaped; a tree ... ... ... 36. 



Radicle inferior :-^ 



Ovules on the septum of the ovary : — 

 Corolla-lobes imbricate in bud : — 



Ovary 2.celled, each cell with an ovule on the 

 . middle of the septum; flowers ebracteate, in 

 small supra-axillary clusters, 5-raerous : calyx- 

 lobes as long as the tube, thickened and persis- 

 tent, stamens 5, inserted near the base of the 

 corolla-tube ; style short ; stigma fusiform ; fruit 

 boldly 10-ridged ; a shrub 

 Corolla-lobes twisted in bud : — 



Ovary 2-celled, each cell with one ovule (in one 

 species with 2 ovules) ; flowers 5-merous ; style 

 short, pubescent ; stigmas stout and grooved : 

 fruit with scanty pulp ; seeds plano-convex, often 

 cupped ... ... ... ... 38. Webera. 



Ovary 2-celled, each cell with one ovule inserted 

 near the middle of the cell, not basilar ; flowers 

 4-merous (5-merous in one species of Ixora) ; 

 style long, slender, glabrous, exserted ; stigmas 

 slender, smooth ; fruit globose or didymous with 

 leathery or pulpy pericarp ; pyrenes 2, coriace- 

 ous, each with a single plano-convex seed : — 

 Style exserted but never twice as long as the 

 corolla-tube ; stigma thicker than the style, 

 bifid : stipules and bracts of the inflores- 

 cence coriaceous, usually small, the latter 

 not sheathing ; leaves usually coriaceous ... .39. IxoRA, 



Style very slender much longer (often twice 



37. Gardeniopsis. 



