444 HAMAMELIDER. [ Polyosma. 
trees, with alternate or opposite, simple or compound leaves. 
Stipules present or not. 
POLYOSMA, Bl. 
x-tube ovoid, adnate to the ovary, the limb 4-toothed. 
Petals 4, valvate, strap-shaped, often cohering in a tube, deciduous. 
Stamens 4; anthers linear, erect. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, the 
numerous ovules attached to the 2 parietal placentas which protrude 
far ae the cell and almost divide it into eee style filif 
stigma terminal, entire. Berry inferior, 1-seeded. Seed erect, bps, 
the testa rather thick. Embryo small, at the apex of a fleshy 
albumen.—Trees, with simple leaves opposite or nearly so. Flowers 
in simple terminal racemes or spikes 
1. P. Wallichii, Benn.—An evergreen small tree, about 25-30 
ft. high, the young ‘shoots tawny pubescent ; leaves obovate-lanceo- 
late to oblanceolate-oblong, acute at the base, on a slender petiole 
4-1 in. long, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, remote tely and 
slightly a while young, afterwards thickened-toothed 4 the 
excurrent nerves, 3-5 in long, chartaceous, slightly pubescent on 
the nerves beneath ; flowers 4 in. long, on Sash sini 1- 
bracted peduncles not above aline long, forming slender pubescent 
terminal racemes; calyx-teeth ovate, acute ; corolla puberulous. 
Has.—Tropical forests of the Andamans.—F1. R.S. 
REMARKS. x rather light, pale-brown, pretty straight-fibrose, rather 
close-grained, so 
HAMAMELIDEZ. 
Flowers regular or irregular, hermaphrodite or unisexual, Peri- 
anth in male flowers sometimes wanting. Calyx-tube more or less 
adnate to the ovary, the limb truncate or 4-5 slobed; valvate or im- 
bri wine Petals as many, more or fewer than calyx-lobes, or none. 
Stamens sey or more, definite or indefinite, perigynous, 1-seriate ; 
Siamonts ts free ; anthers 2-celled, the cells opening laterally in 
various ways. Ovary inferior or half-inferior, rarely superior, con- 
y of 2 or rarely more carpels, usually free at the apex 
and beaked, with 2 suspended ovules in each carpel or rarely more 
on axile placentas ; ; style usually persistent. Fruit a mage 
the diverging at the mes and each one opening in 
y 
2 short valves. Albumen thin, fleshy—Trees or shrubs, with 
selly peeeneies: eos or 3-lobed leaves. Stipules deciduous 
<a . wers small, usually collected in heads, rarely 
a are a of which only 2 species are found in Burma, but 
wo dat “will be discovered in the Ava hills. Storax, a 
