530 SAMYDACER, [ Homalium. 
ves; sepals 5, about half a line 
long, oblong, rather blunt, densely puberulous outside ; stamens 
8, not united at the base, alternating with as many clavate fringed 
staminodes ; filaments slender, many times longer than the anther ; 
ovary glabrous ; style pubescent, rather short ; stigma large; cap- 
sules on 4-5 lin. long stiff peduncles, elliptically oblong, 2-valved, 
berry-like, about 6 lin. long. 
Var. 1. glabriuscula ; leaves almost glabrous. 
_ . Var. 2. puberula: petioles and leaves beneath on the nerves 
puberulous. ) 
Has.—var. 2: in Chittagong; var. 1: Ava, Kakhyen hills. 
flowers minute, greenish white, on short glabrous pedicels, arising 
from densely scaly tawny-pubescent axillary buds, and clustered ; 
included, the filaments rather shorter than the anthers, alternating 
‘with as many oblong short staminodes ; ovary and the short style 
glabrous; capsules small, about 3 lin. ong or somewhat. longer, 
sessile, trigonously ovoid, glabrous, l-celled, few-seeded, the seeds 
enveloped in a scarlet aril. 
HOMALIUM, Jacq. 
Calyx-tube turbinate or oblong, at the base adhering to the 
ovary, the limb 4-12 lobed. Petals as many as calyx-lobes. Sta- 
alternating with glands. Ovary 
parietal 2-6-ovuled placentas in 
