$38 | OLACINER. *[ Opilia. 
OPILIA, Roxb. 
4-5, hypogynous, “valvatas * Stamens as many, opposite to = 
petals ; filaments filiform; anthers dorsifix near base. Disk of 
4-5 scales. Ovary 1-celled with a solitary suspended ovule ; style 
short. Drupe with a crustaceous nut. Seed spuriously erect. 
Albumen present.—Scandent shrubs, with entire almost distichous 
leaves. Flowers minute, by 1 to 3 subtended by a bract, forming 
axl racemes, catkin-hke while young. ie 
1. 0. amentacea, Roxb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 583; Bedd. Sylv. a 
Madr. 60, t. 9, f. 3—A large scandent ail “all parts elabrous ; | 
leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, on a 2-8 lin. long petiole, 
3-4 in. long, bluntish acuminate, entire, coriaceous, glossy above, 
glabrous ; racemes short, solitary, or by 2 or 3 in the axils of th 
es oe above the scars of the fallen ones; flowers 5-merous, 
minute, Bente, a a lin. long slender pedicels; drupes globular, 
the size of a cherry, 1-seeded. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the jong a dot forests of the Prome Disa 
March ; ‘Fr. Apr.-May,—1.—SS.—= 
STEMONURWUS, BI. 
Flowers usually polygamous. Calyx cup-shaped, minutely 4-5- 
toothed. Petals 4 or 5, inserted at the very short polygamous disk, 
more or less cohering in a tube, free at apex, valvate. Stamens 4 
or 5, alternating with the petals and adhering to them at the base; 
filaments with 2 apical cavities hiding the pendulous anthers. 
Ovary 1-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules; stigma sessile. Drupes 
crowned by the Senge rrigee stigma, the nut crustaceous Seed 
pendulous. Albumen fleshy.—Trees with entire leaves. Flowers 
ae Aceowes 
Il parts glabrous 
Leaves 2: bes ne 5 cymes teat: — the peduncle stiff and 
ie pee 
Lae 23 3 9 ee - cymes s htly puberulous, axillary and 
peduneled ; drupes “wiytiealle oblong, the putamen suleate . St: Javaniows. 
XX taue branches tawny tomentose ; tioles, te 
surface of leaves, and inflorescence puberulous or 
wacaae 
—_— peduaicled, leat-opposed F . St. rege 
= 1. S. Penangianus, Miers (Gom ial Pensngieias We 
Be Ind. FV. i. oes), “An (Gomi tree, the leaf-buds shetly : 
-pubescent ; leaves oblong, on a stout, short, oor rene 
or the somewhat t unequal base, shortly Actuate e, 2-54 
thin’ ceed ester flowers small, el ers peice pee 
