150 STERCULIACER. [ Buetineria. 
filaments, the outer series consisting of 10-15 ligulate staminodes, 
the median of 10 fertile stamens, and the innermost of 5 very short 
subulate staminodes; anthers linear-oblong, introrse. Ovary ne 
3-5-celled, with several ovules in each cell ; 3 styles connate ; stigma 
capitellate. Capsules 5-2-, rarely by abortion 1-celled, sama 
septicidally or loculicidally, or both. Seeds with a scarlet arillus. 
Albumen fleshy.—Small trees or shrubs, a simple leaves and 
small cymose axillary flowers. 
Outer staminodes 15, the inner des cilia L. glabra. 
age 10, the inner not lite caret minutely 
. L. heteroclita. | 
bra, Turcz. ; iL é Ind. Fl, i. 379.—An evergreen 
shrub e : leaf-buds slightly saibopiaoaii at oblong to oblong- 
lanceolate, on 4-2 in. long petiole, obtuse at base, acuminate, 5-7 in. 
long, chartaceous, glabrous, drying blackish ; flowers rather small, 
in an almost sessile puberulous — small cyme; petals almost 
rotundate, retuse ; outer stamin: 5, inner staminodes ciliate; 
- capsule $ in. long, coriaceous, wiabled. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
2. L. heteroclita, Kz. (Z. td Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 
114).—An evergreen shrub, growing out into a little tree, the young 
shoots minutely puberulous ; leaves fat sokats to oblong-lanceolate, 
on a rather short but slender petiole, acuminate, almost entire, 2-4 
in. long, membranous, glabrous ; stipules linear, minutely puberu- 
lous, deciduous ; flowers small, whitish, pediceled, forming a very 
short ier ie poor puberulous cyme in ee axils of the leaves; 
in the scarlet 
Has.—South Andaman, in the tropical forests. 
BUETTNERIA, L. 
Sepals 5, connate at base. Petals 5, with a concave claw, re 
with a single or oeasionll 2 oblong black seeds entirely ma 
= 5 5-1-seeded valves. Albumen none.—Herhs or shel aie 
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