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or urceolate tube, the limb 5- rarely 4-lobed, valvate or variously 
imbricate, rarely the petals all distinct. Stamens as many as 
cupular, entire, lobed, or consisting of 5 distinct scales, rarely want- 
ing. Ovary superior, 5- or fewer- rarely 6-10-celled, the cells with a 
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_ Corolla-tube longer or shorter than the calyx, without tufts of 
hairs or scales below the middle, densely bearded inside, the lobes 
valvate. Filaments inserted near the mouth of the corolla, short, 
filiform ; anthers wholly or partially included. Hypogynous . disk 
cup-shaped, truncate, 5-toothed or -lobed or of 5 distinct scales. 
Ovary usually 2-3. or 5- (very rarely 1- or 6-10) -celled, the cells 
l-ovuled ; style short or long. Fruit a drupe, the mesocarp sometimes 
pulpy, but usually thin, the endocarp crustaceous or hard.—Shrubs, 
with usually small rigid leaves. Flowers small, in terminal or axil- 
small spikes or the spikes reduced. 
I. L, Malayanus, Jack.—An evergreen, small, rigid shrub, all 
parts glabrous; leaves linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, sessile, nar- 
rowed at both ends, very acute or mucronate, entire, 1-2 in. long, 
rigidly coriaceous, obscurely parallel-nerved, glossy above, more or 
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maceous, oblong-lanceolate, about a line long, minutely ciliate; 
corolla funnel-shaped, a little longer than the calyx, puberulous, 5- 
cleft, the lobes lanceolate, bearded above the base ; hypogynous 
es 5, distinct, erect, blunt ; style villous, the stigma almost glo- 
bular ; drupe sappy, almost globular, the putamen usually 5-celled. 
