Cratoxylon. } HYPERICINER. 83° 
1. T. dioica, Roxb. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 249; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
20; Brand. For. Fl. 21, t. 6—An evergreen glaucous small tree 
or shrub, with cicatrisate red-brown branches and spuriously arti- 
el 1 
succulent ; flowers dioecious, small, sessile, rose-coloured, in dense 
robust spikes terminating the branchlets; bracts as long as the 
flowers ; stamens 5; styles 2-3, elongate and exserted; capsules 
about 2 lin. long, attenuate. 
Has.—Ava.—Fl. C.8S. ; Fr. B.S. 
2. T. gallica, L.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 248 ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 20; 
- Brand. For. Fl. 20, t. 5.—An evergreen glaucous small tree or 
large shrub, the branches usually dark-brown or blackish, all parts 
glabrous ; leaves scale-like, oblong or lanceolate, stem-clasping ; 
flowers very small, white, on short pedicels or almost sessile, droop- 
ing, in loose very slender 14-2 in. long racemes; b 
the flowers; stamens 5; disk 10-toothed ; styles 3, rather long, 
but not exserted ; capsules about 2 lin. long, attenuate. 
Has.—Rather frequent in the tidal savannahs and tidal forests of Lower 
Pegu.—Fl. B.S. ; Fr. C. 8.—1.—S8.—Sal. 
Remarxs.— Wood reddish-white, coarse-grained, rather hard and tough, but 
not strong; good for fuel. 
HYPERICINE. 
: Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, imbrieate. Petals 
e 5, hypogynous, imbricate, often twisted. Stamens indefinite, hypo- 
‘ gynous, usually more or less distinctly united into 3 or 5 (rarely 1 
bundles, or wholly free ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally ; 
ovary 3- to 5-celled, or rarely spuriously I-celled, with numerous 
ovules in 2 rows, or few or solitary erect or horizontal ovules in each 
“cell; styles free, or more or less connate ; stigmas usually club- 
shaped or capitate. Fruit a septicidal or loculicidal capsule, or an 
indehiscent berry. Seeds straight or curved, not arillate. Albu- 
men none. Embryo with half-cylindrical or convolute cotyledons.— 
Shrubs or herbs, rarely trees, with usually opposite simple leaves. 
Stipules none. Flowers in cymes or panicles, rarely solitary. 
A family of little importance to the forester. Only § species 
_ are known from Burma, a few of which are arboreous. : . 
CRATOXYLON, BI. 
__ Sepals and petals 5, the latter with or without a basal append- 
age. Stamens 3-delphous, the staminal bundles often alternating = 
With as many hypogynous glands. Ovary 3-celled, with 4 or more _ : 
