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ments and forming a short tube, usually 5 (rarely 10, in a double 
row), imbricate i in bud. Stamens numerous, in | or several rows, 
in 5 or more bundles ; filaments filiform or lonias, united at 
the base; anthers oval and short. Hypogynous seales large, 
cushion-like and fleshy, or wanting. Ovary inferior or half-inferior, 
5-2-celled, the cells usually with 2-4, rarely a single ovule, suspended 
from the summit of the axils ; ; style ‘filiform, with a simple or lobed 
stigma. Fruit a more or less succulent drupe crowned by the 
calyx-liimb, containing a single 5- or fewer-celled nut. Embryo 
straight or curved.—Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple leaves 
often drying yellow. Flowers usually small, im short axillary 
racemes, spikes or clusters, rarely solitary. Bracts minute, often 
scale-like, . 
* Ovary 3- wane Drupes oblong or elliptical, 3-celled. 
mbryo s 
dobar flowers comailas in ‘compound puberulous spikes; drupes 
. S. lucida. 
Young sho ots more or less pubescent flowers shortly espe in 
simple or branched villou racemes ; dru . S. racemosa, 
vanes re = S more or less ru: feats posevenncanh ce eins or realy 
mple tomentose spikes ; drupes sul ribbed . S. sulcata. 
Glabrous; rates and rib eanrens sparingly ra 3 racemes quite 
glabrous, slender; drupes : . S&S. leiostachya, 
* _ ary 2. rarely Sell Drupes ovoid with @ con 
ted a b 
ove neentles in simple or compound. spikes ; 
in 2 or more series. 
Young shoots, spikes "4 fates tence < —s or > len pone aaper 
roy or tomentose ; drupes turbinate, ribbed . Ml a 
Glabrous ; drupes turbinate, sewralbare ribbed; spikes glabrous . S. sp 
Glabrous '3 drupes ovoid-turbinate, terete ; spikes glabrous. ag pl riauia 
Oo Flowers pedicelled, in simple or compound 
roar 33 n 2 or more series. 
brous; drupes ovoid-turbinate, tere ~) racemes compound, 
minutely appressed: pubescent robus . S. pedicellata.. 
Glabrous ;. lea caudate eonagant “arapes “ovoid- turbinate, 
taco Geapie ‘ies der r, pubesce: . 8. caudata. 
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Flowers white, edivelled, in rac mes: or 
poor panicles. Stamens collected ind 
ndles. 
S$ appressed-pubescent, formin der panicles at. the end 
f the young pihesent branchlets pace long, filiform . S. crategoides, 
Mirren short, s shortly tomentose ; pedice els very short and thick . 8. lewcantha. 
* ory = 3 drupes. oblong or elliptical, 3-celled ; embryo 
all.—An evergreen small stunted tree, all 
1.8. “ parts) 
quite glabrous ; leaves lanceolate to elliptically lanceolate, on a 
ng petiole, 3-4 in. long, shortly acuminate, almost entire;, 
or more or less serrulate, coriaceous, shining’ above, glabrous, laxly- 
