1893.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 189 



Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula — By George King, M. B., 

 LL. D., F.R.S., C.I.E., Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Calcutta. 



No. 6. 



Order XX. LINE^). 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves usually alternate, simple, entire, rarely 

 crenate-serrate ; stipules lateral or intrapetiolar or 0. Inflorescence 

 various. Floivers regular, bisexual. Sepals 5, rarely 4, free or con- 

 nate below, imbricate. Petals as many, hypogynous or sligbtly perigy- 

 nous, usually fugacious, often contorted. Stamens 4-5, with as many 

 interposed staminodes, or 8-10, (rarely more) filaments united at the 

 base into a hypogynous or slightly perigynous ring, filiform ; anthers 

 versatile, 2-celled. Glands 5, entire or 2-lobed, usually adnate to the 

 staminal ring, or obsolete. Ovary entire, 3-5 celled ; styles 3-5, free 

 or more or less connate, stigmas terminal ; ovules 1 or 2, inserted in 

 the inner angle of the cells, anatropous, pendulous. Fruit usually 

 splitting into 3-5 cocci, rarely a drupe. Seeds 1-2 in each cell, testa 

 sometimes winged, albumen fleshy or ; embryo nearly as long as the 

 seed, straight, rarely incurved, cotyledons broad, radicle superior. — 

 Distrib. All regions ; genera 14, species about 145. 



Petals contorted, fugaceous ; perfect stamens 

 2 or 3 times as many as the petals. Fruit 

 drupaceous. Scandent herbs with hooked 

 lateral branchlets ... ... ... 3 Boucheria. 



Petals imbricate, "with scales on their inner 

 faces, ultimately deciduous ; perfect stamens 

 twice as many as the petals. Fruit drupa- 

 ceous. Shrubs or trees ... ... 2 Erythroxylon. 



Petals contorted, persistent ; stamens 2 to 4 

 times as many as the petals. Fruit capsular, 

 septicidal ... ... ... 3 Ixonanthes. 



1. Roucheria, Planch. 



Erect or climbing trees or shrubs with revolute woody tendrils. 

 Leaves quite entire or glandular-serrate, coriaceous, penninerved ; stipules 

 minute, caducous. Flowers axillary, yellow, subsessile, or in exces- 

 sively short fascicled spikes ; pedicels bracteolate. Sepals 5. Petals 

 5, hypogynous, contorted, fugacious. Stamens 10, all fertile, filaments 

 connate into a short tube below. Glands obsolete. Ovary 3-5-celled, 



