76 BIXINED.. [ Xylosma, 
XYLOSMA, Forst. 
Flowers dioecious, Sepals 4-5, scale-like, imbricate in bud. 
Petals none. Stamens numerous, the anthers versatile, short. 
parietal placentas bearing 2 or only a few ovules; style simple or 
more or less divided, and the stigmas dilated, or rarely the stigma 
almost sessile and peltate. Berry 2-8- seeded. —Trees, often spmy- 
ee with tooshed or — entire leaves. Flowers small, clus- 
064 or in short racem 
1. X. sp—An evergreen glabrous tree (30—35 + 8—15 +2—34) 
with the 5 oe similar to those of X. longifolinm ; flowers and 
fruits unknown. May be X. longifolium. 
Has.—Frequent in the swamp forests of the Irrawaddi alluvium of Pegu. 
GYNOCARDIA, R. Br. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-toothed or rupturing 
into 3-5 segments. Petals 5, with a seale at their bases. Males: 
stamens numerous ; anthers ‘basifix. Females : staminodes 10-15. 
Placentas 5, bearing numerous ovules, Berry large, globular, with 
hard rind. Seeds’ irregularly obovoid. Sea oily-fleshy.— 
Trees, Wik simple leaves and fascicled large flow 
1. G. odorata, Roxb. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 195 aS evergreen tree 
(40—50 + 12—20 + 3—4), all parts glabrous; bark about } in. 
thick, rather smooth, ash-coloured ; cut pale-coloured, dry ; leaves 
oblong to elliptically ‘lanceolate, acute at base, on a rather slender 
3-4: lin. long petiole, abruptly ‘acuminate, almost coriaceous, glab- 
rous ; flowers pale yellow, almost 1} in. in diameter; the females larger, 
fragrant, on 14 in. long peduncles, fascicled, arising from tuberosities 
from the trunk and larger branches; stamens in males very 
pee -_ woolly filaments ; staminodes in females 10, pinna- 
. ; berries as large as an orange, on a rather slender 
petal LAb i in. ine globular, with a thick, ash-coloured, rough- 
e a. seeds numerous, imbedded in pulp. 
ot unfrequent in ‘the tropical fo 
3,000 f pistitoy xlso Ohithiging.—_ Fr Miodh:--86 <taeace sagt 
RemakxKs.— Wood light jews, striated. 
os HYDNOCARPUS, Gaertn. 
Flowers ‘unisexual. Sepals 4 = 5, much imbricate. Petals 
«6.9, with a seale at their base, or the scales cohering in a cup. 
: Males : stamens definite or pena: anthers basifix, Females: 
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