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Daphnephyllopsis. Anthers attached to the back. Drupe berry-like. Flowers sessile, 

 in heads. 



* * Calyx 5-cleft or the sepals distinct, imbricate. 



Goxocaeyum. Flowers unisexual. Drupes dry, woody. Albumen many-lobed. 

 Trib. IV. PSTTOCEENE^. Cotyledons broadly foliaceous or thick-fleshy. Flowers 

 dioecious. Climbers. Fruit drupaceous. 



* Stamens alternating with the petals. 



x Flowers in heads. 

 Phytocrene. Filaments longer than the anthers. Albumen deeply lobed. Drupes 

 villous or echinate. 



x x Flowers in spikes racemes or panicles. 

 Sarco stigma. Flowers interruptedly spiked ; filaments longer than the anthers. Stami- 



nodes none. Stigma sessile. Albumen none. 

 Natsiatum. Flowers racemose. Filaments very short, alternating with 5 staminodes. 

 Styles 2. Albumen fleshy. 



* * Stamens opposite to the petals. 



Jodes. Flowers cymose-panicled. Stamens 8, filaments very short. Stigma sessile. 



Albumen fleshy. 



Genus of doubtful position. 

 Cardiopteeis. Sepals and petals imbricate. Fruit dry, winged. Milk-juiced annual 



twiners. 



Ximenia, L. 



1. X. Amekicana, L. sp. pi. 497 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 252 ; Larnk. 

 111. t. 257. f. 1—2 ; Bth. Fl. Austr. I. 391 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 574.— (X. sub- 

 scandens, Griff. Not. Dicot. 691). 



Hab. Not unfrequent along the coasts of the Andamans ; also Te- 

 nasserim. — Fl. March, Apr. 



Olax, L. 



Conspectus of species. 



x Enlarged calyx in fruit membranous, dry. 

 Branchlets terete, like the under-surface of the leaves and the racemes, puberulous, 



. . 0. scandens. 

 All parts also the racemes quite glabrous ; branchlets angular, 0. zeylanica. 



x x Enlarged fruiting calyx coriaceous (fleshy in a fresh state). 

 Glabrous, the branchlets terete ; flowers 4 — 5 lin. long, 0. inibricata. 



1. O. scandens, Roxb. Corom. PI. II. t. 102. and Fl. Ind. I. 163 j 

 Hf. Ind. Fl. 575.— {Olax obtusa, Bl. Bydr. 131 ?). 



Hab. Rather frequent all over Burrnah, from Ava and Chittagong 

 down to Tenasserim, in all deciduous forests, ascending also the pine forests 

 up to 3500 ft. elevation, and occurring equally abundantly in the tidal 

 forests.— Fl. Decb.— March. 



2. O. Zeylanica, L. sp. pi. 49 ; Hf. Ind. PI. I. 576. (0. acuminata, 

 Wall. Cat. 6781 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. 1. 576 j 0. sphaerocarpa, Griff. Not. Dicot. 

 689). 



