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A sub-herbaceous shrub, with simple exstipulate leaves, and 



succulent fruits with numerous small seeds ... ... 1. Dichroa. 



Woody shrubs or trees with pinnate (rarely simple) stipulate 

 leaves ; fruits small, dry, capsular, dehiscent, 2-celled ; seeds 

 few hairy ... ... ... ... ... 2. Weinmannia. 



Trees or large woody shrubs with simple leaves, 4-merous 



flowers, and dry frnit with a single large smooth seed ... 3. Polyosma. 



1. Dichroa, Lour. 



A sub-herbaceous shrub. Leaves opposite, more or less serrate, 

 lanceolate, persitent, exstipulate. Panicle terminal. Calyx-tube nd- 

 nate to the ovary ; limb 5-6-toothed. Petals 5 or 6, thick, valvate, blue 

 or purplish. Stamens JO or 12, epigynous. Ovary £-inferi or, 1-celled ; 

 styles 3-5; ovules numerous, on 3-5 parietal placentas formed by the 

 inrlexed margins of the carpels. Berry j-inferior, blue. Seeds numer- 

 . ous, small, obovoid ; testa with large reticulations. 



Dichroa febrjfuga, Lour. PI. Cochinch, 301. A shrub 3-6 feet 

 high ; branches terete, nearly glabrous. Leaves membranous, caudate- 

 acuminate, the base cuneate, the edges more or less distinctly serrate in 

 the upper three-fourths, entire in the lower fourth ; main nerves 8 or 9 

 pairs, ascending ; length 4-5 in., breadth P 4-1*8 in.; petioles unequal, 

 from *6-l*75 in. Panicles adpressed-pubescent. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 II, 406; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 128; Maxim, in Mem. Acad. Petersb. X 

 16, p. 2. D. cyanitis and D. latifolia, Miq. Fl. hid. Bat. I, 721, 722. 

 Adamia versicolor^ Fortune in Journ. Hort. Soc. I, 298; Lindl. & Paxt. 

 Fl. Gard. I, t. 5. A. cyanea, Wall. Cat. 44J ; Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 36; PI. 

 As. Rar. t. 213'; Bot. Mag. t. 3016; DC. Prodr. IV, 16; H. f. & T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. II, 76. A. chinensis, Gardn. & Champ, in Kew Journ. 

 Bot. I, 31 J. Cyanitis sylvatica, Reinw. in Blume Bijd. 921 ; DC. Prodr. 

 IV, 16. 



Perak ; on the Central Range ; Scortechini 266. Distrib. On the 

 higher parts of the Malayan Archipelago ; China ; Philippines ; Temper- 

 ate Himalaya from Bhotan to Nepal ; Khasia Mountains. 



2. Weinmannia, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, usually with terete opposite branches. Leaves stipu- 

 late, opposite, coriaceous, unequally pinnate, 3-foliolate or simple, 

 leaflets usually glandular-serrate. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo- 

 diceceous. Calyx-tube short, the lobes 4 or 5, imbricate, persistent or 

 deciduous. Petals 4 or 5, sessile, imbricate, spathulate or obovate, in- 

 serted under the lobed margin of the perigynous disc. Stamens 8 or 10, 

 inserted with the petals, the filaments often elongated and exserted ; the 

 anthers small, 2-celled. Ovary free, ovoid or conical, 2-celled, 2-beaked; 



