256 CELASTRINER. [ H ippoeratea, 
Has.—In low lands inundated during R.S. of the Pazwoondoung river of 
Pegu ; in Upper Tenasserim apparently frequent.—Fl, Feb.-March ; Fr. March- 
April--l.--SS.—All., Arg. 
4. L. floribundum, Wight. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 616.—An ever- 
green tree, about 35 ft. high, all parts glabrous ; leaves lanceolate or 
oblong-lanceolate, on a 3-4 lin. long petiole, acute at the base, 3-4 
in. long, acuminate or acute, somewhat waved, glabrous, coriaceous, — 
glaucous-green and almost opaque above, somewhat glossy beneath, 
the nerves rather prominent ; flowers nearly 3 lin. in diameter, on 
3-1 lin. long rusty-villous glabrescent pedicels, forming very fuga-— 
ceously rusty-tomentose, slender, axillary and terminal panicles at 
the end of the branchlets ; sepals and petals rotundate, the latter 
about a line Jong, naked and entire. 
Has.—South Tenasserim, in dense forests.—Fl. Decb. 
HIPPOCRATEA, L. 
Calyx small, 5-parted. Petals 5, valvate or imbricate. Stamens - 
5 (usually 2 or 3 of them reduced), the filaments recurved or — 
reflexed ; anthers didymous, 2-4-celled, opening outwardly. Disk 
conical, cup-shaped, or broadly explanate. Ovary free or confluent 
with the disk, 3-celled, each cell with 2-4 biseriate ovules att: 
to the axis. Ripe carpels 3, united at the base, compressed, opeD- 
ing into 2 valves or indehiscent, few-seeded. Seeds comp ? 
usually winged at the lower end. Albumen none.—Little trees oF 
shrubs, usually scandent, with opposite leaves. Stipules small, deci 
duous. Flowers small, in axillary panicles or cymes. 
* Petals imbricate in bud. 
Petals hardly $ lin. long; sepals whitish marginate; leaves glau- 
cous-green ; i . . x : ; ‘ . H, Indica. 
Petals about a line long ; sepals erose-ciliolate ; leaves blackish in 
bikes Peep es ey eo ar ies i 
* * Petals valvate in bud, 
Calyx minute, puberulous ; stamens 3 . : ee ‘i . H. macrantha. 
1. H. Indica, Willd. ; Hf, Ind. Fl. i. 624; Brand. For. Fi. 83. 
carpels 3, or fewer by abortion, flat, elliptically-oblong, blunt, abo bout o 
2 in. long, striate, each containing 2 long-winged seeds. “ . 
Hap.—In the open forests of rare.—Fl, 
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