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Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



5-lobed, often biacteolate, imbricate or valvate. Petals 5, or 0, inserted 

 under the margin of the disc, deciduous, usually imbricate. Disc 

 lining the calyx-tube or forming a ring at its base. Stamens perigy- 

 nous, indefinite (rarely 1, 5 or 10) in one or many series, often connate 

 and unilateral iu Chrysobalanese ; filaments subulate or filiform, usually 

 incurved iu bud ; anthers small, didymous. Ovary of one or more free 

 or connate carpels, with free or connate basal lateral or subterminal 

 styles ; stigmas simple, penicillate or capitate ; ovules 1 or more in 

 each carpel. Fruit variable, consisting of achenes or berries or drupes, 

 rarely capsular. Seeds erect or pendulous, testa membranous or coria- 

 ceous, albumen ; cotyledons large, plano-convex ; radicle short. — 

 Distrib. About 1,200 species, found in all climates and countries, but 

 chiefly in the temperate. 



Of the ten tribes into which this order is subdivided by Messrs. Bentham 

 and Hooker in their Genera Plantar urn, only fonr are (as yet) represented by speci- 

 mens from the Provinces within our area, and these four tribes are represented by 

 only six genera which Sir Joseph Hooker (in his Flora of British India) distin- 

 guishes as follows : — 



Tribe I. Chrysobalane^e. Flowers usually irregular. Carpel 

 1 ; style basal ; ovules 2, ascending. Fruit a drupe. Radicle 

 inferior. — Trees or shrubs with simple quite entire leaves. 



Calyx-tube elongate. Stamens many, united in a phalange. 



Ovary 2-locellate ... ... ... ... 1. Parinakium. 



Calyx-tube short. Stamens 2. Ovary 1-celled ... ... 2. Parastemon. 



Tribe II. Pruned. Flowers regular. Carpel 1, rarely 2 ; 

 style subterminal, rarely basal ; ovules 2, pendulous. Radicle 

 superior. — Trees or shrubs with simple usually serrated leaves. 

 Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 5, large, glabrous. Carpel solitary, fruit 



drupaceous ... ... ... ... ... 3. Prunds. 



Calyx 5-10-toothed. Petals 5 and minute, or absent. Carpel 



1. Drupe coriaceous, usually elongated transversely ... 4. Pygeum. 



Tribe III. Rube^e. Flowers regular. Calyx ebracteolate. Sta- 

 mens very numerous. Carpels many ; styles sub-basal or ventral ; 

 ovules 2, collateral, pendulous. Fruit of many dry or fleshy 

 carpels, not included in the calyx- tube. Radicle superior. — 

 Usually shrubs, often with compound leaves ... ... 5. Rubus. 



Tribe IV. Pome^:. Flowers regular. Calyx-tube (or the apex 

 of the peduncle) becoming fleshy after flowering, and enclosing 

 the carpels. Stamens numerous. Ovules 2 or more, ascending. 

 Fruit a pome or berry, with 2-5 bony or coriaceous 1 -seeded 

 stones; shrubs or trees ... ... ... ... 6. Pyrus. 



1. Pakinarium, Juss. 



Trees. Leaves simple, alternate, evergreen, quite entire. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, in panicles or corymbose racemes, 2-bracteolate, white 

 or pink. Calyx-tube oblong, campanulate, turbinate, or funnel-shaped j 



