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the flowers. Calyx campanulate, less than *! in. long, the mouth 

 truncate, usually with 5 minute teeth. Corolla four times as long aa 

 the calyx, clavate in bud, salver-shaped, coriaceous ; the tube slender, 

 longer than the 5 reflexed linear-oblong valvate lobes. Anthers as long 

 as the corolla-lobes, much exserfed. Ovary 4j-celled, each cell with a 

 single ovule. Fruit depressed-globular, "4 in. across and "35 in. long, 

 glabrous, shining, smooth but with -i shallow ventral grooves and a 

 minute apical areolus : pyrenes two, each 2-seeded. DO. Prod. IV. 

 468; Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 159 (in part). 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3087. Singapore: Ridley 109] Hullett 

 623. Perak : King's Collector 3992, 7248. 



The material ia imperfect and we describe the characters of the ovary and 

 ovules with some hesitation. 



32. Guettarda, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves sometimes three in a whorl ; stipules 

 deciduous. Flowers secund on the branches of axillary forked peduncu- 

 late cymes. Galyx-tuhe short ; the limb tabular, toothed, usually decidu- 

 ous. Corolla with a long cylindric straight or curved tube, the limb 

 with 4 to 9 lobes imbricate in bud. Anthers 4 to 9, linear, subsessile, 

 included within the glabrous tube. Ovary with 4 to 9 elongate cells, 

 with a solitary ovule in each cell ; style filiform ; stigma sub-capitate. 

 Drupe more or less globular, crowned by the short calyx-limb ; endocarp 

 4- to 9-celled, perforated near the apices of the cells. Seeds pendulous, 

 oblong cylindrical or curved, testa membranous, albumen scanty or none. 

 — DiSTRiB. About 45 species ; mostly American. 



1. Guettarda speciosa, Linn. Sp. PI. 991. A small evergreen 

 polygamous tree ; young branches as thick as a goose-quill, deciduously 

 puberulous. Leaves membranoas, broadly obovate or ovate, cuspidate, 

 narrowed to the rounded or sometimes minutely cordate, rarely acute 

 base ; upper surface pale-brown when dry, glabrous ; the lower pale- 

 greenish, puberuloas, minutely reticulate ; main-nerves 7 to 8 pairs, 

 little curved, spreading, thin but rather prominent on the lower surface, 

 faint on the upper ; length 4 to 8 or 10 in. ; breadth 3 to 7 in. ; petioles 

 •5 to 16 in.; stipules lanceolate or oblong, deciduous, '3 in. long. 

 Cymes axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves ; few-flowered, little- 

 branched, on puberulous peduncles 1*5 to 2*5 in. long. Flowers 15 to 

 2 in. long, some sessile others on short pedicels. Calyx about '2 in. long, 

 minutely velvety ; tube shoi t-grooved ; limb widely cupular, truncate 

 entire or faintly and irregularly toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, many 

 times longer than the calyx, softly pubescent outside ; the tube narrow ; 

 the limb 1 in. in diam. divided into 7 or 8 obtuse lobes. Style glabrous 

 stigma conical. Drupe depressed-ovoid or turbinate, woody, globose, 



