. 
5 
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ses the size of a pepper-kernel ; pyrenes smooth, convex on 
: ack 
—_ 
in. long 
‘Leaves small ali 1} in. ites membranous, 
Armed wi spin : ‘ 
‘aacmeaas y with a few short axillary spines 
Flocourtia. | BIXINES. 73 
Drupes almost eons the size of a small pea ; leaves Sete 
. Se. Roxburghii. 
bela obovoid, the size of a small cherry ; leaves shining on n both 
. Se. lucida, 
: 8, Roxburghii, ‘Clog. : ; H 4 oo Fl. i. 90.—An evergreen 
tree, all parts glabrous, the older branches ‘readfally armed with 
long, strong, straight and compound spines ; leaves oblong to ellip- 
tically oblong, shortly petioled, 4-6 in. long, tri-plinerved, bluntish 
acuminate, remotely and bluntish serrate, , ato opaque or 
supine > ; flowers small, pale yellow, on 4- 6 . long puberulous 
rming solitary axillary puberulous racemes shorter than 
the feaves' : seats 3-lobed ; berries oblong, the size of an olive, 
containing a few roundish oval seeds ‘cafedded in a soft yellow 
pu 
reer 
S. lucida, Wall.—An evergreen tree or shrub, all parts quite 
ES leaves —— lanceolate to lanceolate, acute at the 
base, on a glabrous petiole 4 to 4 in. long, long caudate-acu- 
minate, remotely crenate, 23-4 in. long, coriaceous, glossy on both 
sides ; fruiting racemes glabrous, stout ; calyx in fruit glabrous ; 
drupes obovoid (unripe), about 4 in. long, pointed, glabrous, on 
a glabrous stout peduncle about 3 lin ong’. 
Has,—Tenasserim.—Fr. Aug. 
FLOCOURTIA, Comm. 
Flowers dioecious. Sepals 4 or 5, scale-like, epee anee in the 
males sometimes reduced to bractlets. Petals 
numerous. Ovary 2-5-celled, with usually paired len sttadhed 
to the cell-walls ; styles 2-5, free or connate at base. Berry con- 
taining 2 to many hard pyrenes.—Trees or shrubs, often spiny, 
with simple leaves and small racemose or clustered flowers. 
2 Stigma simple, subulate (not thickened at ape. 
. Sumatrana, 
bs Styles short or almost wanting, thickened or truncate at 
the apex, or more or less bluntish 2-lobed. 
mes compressed and qui t. 
Armed a ce ieanckions and leaves Ene or a $0; 
flow . . #. cataphracta. 
As paces ogee rot ik 3 flowers ‘hermaphrodite . £&. inermis. 
iC) 2 cae obovoid-8-angular, with rounded back. 
x Lea 
Branchlets and cen: ‘antes in pubescen’ Fr eatin 
xX X Leaves Recep ne Berries the size of 
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eaves coriac 
