1875.] of the Burmese Flora. 159 



Kurrimia. Ovary free, styles 2. Capsule entire or 2-lobed, 1 — 2-celled, follicle-like 

 and slowly dehiscing into 1 or 2 valves. Flowers in cymes or racemes, or panicled. 



* * Fruit an indehiscent drupe or berry. 



El^odexdron. Ovary superior, confluent with the disk ; drupe containing an 1 — 3- 



celled putaruen. Leaves opposite or nearly so. 

 Siphonodon. Ovary half- inferior, 5 -celled. Berry large, containing many pyrenes. 



Leaves alternate. 



Subord. II. HrppoCEATEACE^E. Stamens 3, rarely 2 — 5, inserted within or 

 on the disk. Albumen none. Leaves opposite. 



* Fruit an indehiscent berry, 1 — many-seeded. Seeds not winged. 

 Salacia. Only genus. Scandent shrubs. Inflorescences axillary. Stamens 3, rarely 



2 or 4, inserted within the disk. 



* * Fruit capsular or samaroid, dehiscent. Seeds winged. 



x Eipe carpels samaroid, 2-valved. Stamens 3, inserted within the 

 disk. Scandent shrubs. 

 Hippocratea. Eipe carpels usually 3. Seeds usually winged at the lower end. In- 

 florescences terminal or terminal and axillary. 



x x Fruit a capsule. Erect trees or shrubs. Stamens 5, inserted on 

 the disk. 

 Lophopetalum. Capsule 3 — 4-celled and -lobed, loculicidal. Seeds winged all round. 



Not gland-dotted. 

 Kokoona. Capsule 3-celled and -lobed, loculicidal. Seed winged at the upper end 

 only. All herbaceous parts gland-dotted. 



Evonymus, L. 



Conspectus of species. 

 Subg. 1. Etontmus. Ovules 2 in each cell. 



* Flowers solitary or clustered in the axils of the leaves. 



Flowers nearly 5 — 6 lin. across ; petals fringed ; capsules sharply angular, on \ — 1 in. 



long peduncles ; leaves glossy, entire, E. Javanicus. 



Capsules globular, obtusely lobed, very shortly peduncled or almost sessile ; leaves 



green, opaque, E. calocarpas, 



* * Flowers in dichotomous cymes. 



x Branchlets terete or nearly so, or somewhat compressed. 

 Flowers small, usually o-merous ; petals entire ; capsules angular ; leaves serrulate 



upwards, E. glaber. 



x x Branchlets sharply 4-cornered or almost winged. 



Flowers small, in very slender cymes ; capsules small, smooth, E. Griffithii. 



Subg. 2. Glyptopetalum. Ovules solitary in the cells. 



Bark red ; petals 4, greenish purple, concave-orbicular, without grooves ; capsules very 

 rough from scurfy fissures and warts, E. sclerocarpus. 



1. E. Jatanicus, Bl. Bydr. 1146 ; Benn. in Horsf. PI. Jav. var. 130. 

 t. 28 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 607.'— (E. Bancanus, Miq. Suppl. Fl. Sum. 513). 



Hab. Tropical forests of Tenasserim, from Moulmein southwards. — 

 Fl. March. 



2. E. calocakpus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872. 299 ; Hf. 

 Ind. Fl. I. 609. 



