Alangium. | CORNACER, 543 
%* Petals narrow-linear, Anthers basifiz. Style elongate. 
Albumen ruminate . . ° ° . : . 
Albumen homogeneous ; ‘ ‘ : ° ‘ : - Marlea, 
Petals short. Anthers dorsifix, Style short. Petals 4 Cornus. 
ALANGIUM, Lamk. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube turbinate, often sulcate, 
the limb truncate or 5- to 10-toothed. Petals 5-10, narrow-linear, 
valvate ; stamens as many, or more usually 2-4 times as many, as 
A tree, often armed ; petioles 6-8 lin, long; petals 10-6; filaments 
densely pilose at the base . . ° : a : 
A large climber, unarmed; petioles shorter ; petals 6; filaments 
sparingly pilose at the base . . . . . . . 
A decapetalum. 
A. Sundanum, 
1. A. decapetalum, Lamk. (4. Lamarckii, Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
t. 215; Brand. For. Fl. 250.)—A small tree or shrub, unarmed, 
‘tical 
pubescent or glabrous petiole, bluntish or shortly bluntish acumi- 
nate or apiculate, rounded to acute at the ase, 3-5 in. long, entire, 
chartaceous, above glabrous or almost so, beneath shortly pubescent, 
puberulous or altogether glabrous ; flowers cream-coloured or white, 
axils of 
the leaves or above the sears of the fallen ones ; pedicels short, 
few-bracted, tomentose ; calyx densely tawny tomentose or velvety, 
more or less distinctly 5- to 10-toothed ; s 5-10, narrow-linear, 
about an inch long, blunt, tawny-velvety outside; stamens 3-4 times 
as many as petals; filaments very short, densely hirsute; dr 
oblong, 3-4 in. long, smooth, crowned by the calyx-limb, contain- 
ing an oblong, 1-seeded, bony stone. 
Has.—Burma (according Rev. Mason).—Fl. Apr.-May.—1. 
ReMaRxKs.—Wood strong, very close and even-grained, dark brown, easy to 
work, 
%. A. Sundanum, Mig.—A large evergreen climbing shrub, the 
leaf-buds slightly pubescent ; leaves elliptical to elliptically oblong, 
on a slender glabrous petiole 2-4 lin. long, apiculate, 3-5 in. 
long, chartaceous, glabrous and rather glossy; flowers cream- 
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