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3. KAYEA, Wall. 



(Named after Dr. R. Kaye Greville.) 



Trees. Leaves opposite, veins rather distant, arched. Flowers hermaphrodite, 

 either large and solitary or small and collected in terminal panicles. Sepals and 

 petals 4 each, imbricate. Stamens numerous ; filaments slender, free or connate 

 at. the base. Anthers small, subglobose, 2-celled, dehiscence vertical. Ovary 

 1 -celled, style slender, stigma acutely 4-fid ; ovules 4, erect. Fruit sub- 

 drupacious, fleshy, indehiscent, 1 to 4-seeded. Seeds thick, testa thin and 

 crustaceous.— Hooker's Flora of British India i. 276. 



1. K. Iiamachiana (after J. MoD. Larnach), F. v. M. Vict. Xat. Jan. 1887. 

 Supposed to be a tree about 20ft. in height, the bark of the branchlets somewhat 

 cracked. Leaves on very short petioles, elliptic-lanceolate, in rather distant 

 pairs, chartaceous ; on the specimens seen from 5 to 7in. long and from 1^ to 

 2in. broad, nearly smooth, and scarcely shining on the upper surface, rounded at 

 the base, the apex slightly pointed, very thinly penninerved, the faint reticulations 

 immersed. Inflorescence in short terminal panicles or bundles without common 

 peduncle ; bracts obliterated or very fugitive ; pedicels about the length of the 

 calyx, bearing very minute deltoid bracteoles below the middle. Flower-buds 

 globular, calyx glabrous, measuring hardly Jin., thinly coriaceous, pellucid and 

 imbricating at the edge, the sepals finally enlarged to an inch long, the two outer 

 ones roundish, rough, developing a brownish film, the two inner ones niore oval. 

 Petals roundish, membranous, glabrous. Stamens numerous, slightly connate 

 at the base. Filaments very thin, the summit pointed. Anthers almost orbicular, 

 fixed above the base ; the cells surrounding the short and broad connective, 

 dehiscent along the margin. Style glabrous, subulate-filiform, short ; stigmata 

 minute, pointed. Fruit indehiscent, rather large, globular, somewhat pointed, 

 1-seeded, the pericarp coriaceous, the one seed filling the cavity, basifixed, sessile. 

 Arillus none ; testa chartaceous, smooth ; embryo almost globular, carhulent. 



Hab.: Mossman Eiver. 



The descriptive notes were elaborated by Baron Mueller from specimens with young flower 

 buds and with over-ripe fruit. 



This Australian species is evidently nearest allied to K. racemosa, but it has only faint nerves 

 to the leaves, shorter petioles, and pluriseriate stamens ; and perhaps the fruit of K. racemosa, 

 when discovered, may show differences also. — Vict. Nat., I.e. 



Order XXI. TERNSTR(EMlACE.ffi. 



Sepals 5, rarely 4 to 7, free or slightly connate, the innermost often larger. 

 Petals 5, rarely 4 to 9, free or connate below, imbricate or contorted. Stamens 

 numerous or definite, free or connate, usually adnate to the base of the deciduous 

 corolla ; anthers basifixed or versatile, dehiscing by slits or rarely by terminal 

 pores. Ovary free or half inferior, sessile 3 to 5-celled, or many-celled ; styles 

 as many, free or connate, stigmas usually small ; ovules 2 or many in each cell, 

 rarely solitary, never orthotropous. Fruit baccate or capsular. Seeds few or 

 numerous, placentas axile, ailbumen scanty or none, rarely copious; embryo 

 straight or hippocrepiform, cotyledons various. — Shrubs, rarely climbing, or trees. 

 Leaves alternate, simple, entire or often serrate, usually coriaceous, exstipulate. 

 Flowers showy, seldom small, usually subtended by 2 sepal-like bracts, rarely 

 diclinous, axillary, 1 or more together, rarely in lateral or terminal racemes or 

 panicles. 

 Rare in temperate, abundant in tropical, Asia and America. 



