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rarely 4 or 5, hypogynous, the filaments usually united into a sheath; 
anthers opening by terminal pores or rarely by slits. Ovary free, 
1-3-celled, with 1 or more anatropous ovules in each cell ; style 
often curved ; stigma capitate or minute. Fruit usually a 2-celled 
capsule opening loculicidally; rarely 1-celled and indehiscent or 
samaroid. Seeds often strophiolate. Albumen none or present.— 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, _— climbers, with alternate oo leaves. 
Stipules none. Flowers 3-bracted, in racemes, panicles or spikes. 
* Petals more or less a into a gamopetalous corolla. 
Stamens 8, aed; sepa. bigs et sce the 2 inner ones win & -like ; 
en none; shrubs. ‘ : . Chameburus. 
Scandent shrubs; fruit a L-celled samara. : . . . Securidaca, 
>K >K Stamens and petals free 
Erect shrubs or trees; fruit globular, indehiscent ; albumen none . Xanthophylium. 
CHAMABUXUS, DC. 
Sepals unequal, deciduous, the 2 inner ones largest and petal- 
like. Petals 3, united at the base with the staminal sheath, the lower 
keel-shaped and usually crested at the apex. Stamens 8, the fila- 
ments united for 4 of their length into a split sheath; anthers 
opening by pores. Ovary 2- celled with a single suspended ovule 
m each cell. Capsule 2-celled, loculicidally dehiscing, 2-seeded. 
Seeds strophiolate. Albumen none. Shrubs, with showy flowers. 
Flowers pale-lilac; crest of cs 2-lobed, the lobes many-cleft ; 
me mbranous ; seebia) e minute, white. . C. karensium. 
Flowers yellow ; ome of keel 2 pele the lobes ped -cleft ; cap- 
. C. arillatus. 
in atek (Polygala as regi oe m shrub 
2-3 ft. high, all parts eaorgins leaves lanceolate or broadly lance- 
olate, 4- $ inches long, at e base narrowed into a rather long 
petiole acuminate, rsa glabrous, glaucescent beneath ; : 
flowers rather large, about 6-7 lin. long, white with pale lilac tips, 
on short but slender pedicels arranged in one-sided axillary and 
terminal racemes shorter than the leaves es; wings somewhat shorter 
than the keel, obovate benialate, blunt; keel doubly longer than 
the inner petals , terminated by a> 2-lobed crest, the lobes many- 
cleft ; capsules small, about 2 lin. long and broad, membranous, 
rotundate, glabrous, with a double broad chartaceous wing strongly 
notched at the summit; seeds obovate, silk hairy, witha very short 
white strophiole, 
AB.—Frequent in the drier = of es east of Tounghoo, at 
.—SS=Metam.—l, 
4,000 to —— pec Fl. Fr. March 
Hassk. (Polygala*arillata, Ham.; H.f. Ind. Fl. 
- C. arillata, H 
= 200). —A shrub up to 5 ft. high, the younger parts pubescent ; 
ives from aie and oblong to Seale cre 4-6 in. a 
