126 LXXT. ETTBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [^Jachia^ 



Ovary 2-ceUed ; style capillary, exserted, thickened and hairy in the middle, 

 hranches 2 short narrow ; ovules 2 in each cell, inserted on the top of a basilar- 

 erect placenta. Fi-uit dtry, 2-ceIled, cells 1-seeded. Seeds unknown. 



1. J. ornata, Wall, in Hoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 321 ; PL As.^ 

 Bar. t. 293; Cat. 6284; DC. Prodr. W. 621. 



Malacca and SisaAPOitE, Wallicli, &c. 



BranchUta as thick as the middle finger, and all young parts, the petiole, midrib^ 

 and inflorescence, rufoiis-tomentose. Leaves 5-18 in.; brown when dry, coriaceous, 

 tip rounded, narrowed into' the short robust petiole, shining above, hairy beneath or- 

 glabrate; stipules short, cylindric, coriaceous, bristles ^-IJ in. long. Cymes in 

 slender peduncles 5-6 in. long ; branches slender, spreading, primary opposite with 

 sheathing stipular bracts; braeteoles broadly ovate, silky, imbricate. Calyx-lobes' 

 minute in flower, J in. long, oblong-lanceolate in fruit. Corolla J in., villous. 



Tbibs YII. GUETTARDEa:. 

 67. GTTETTABDA, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or 3 in a whorl ; stipules intra-petiolarr 

 deciduous. Flotuers seound on the branches of axillary forked peduncled usually- 

 opposite cymes. Calyx-tube short ; limb tubular, toothed, usually deciduous. 

 Corolla-tube long, cylindric, straight or curved, throat naked ; lobes 4-9, oblong,, 

 imbricate in bud. Anthers 4-9, subsessUe within the tube, linear. Ovary with 

 4r-Q elongate cells ; style filiform, stigma subcapitate ; ovules solitary in each 

 cell, pendulous, funicle thickened. Drupe globose or ovoid, endocarp 4^9-celled, 

 and -grooved or -angled, perforated at the top opposite the cells, which ar& 

 often displaced. Seeds peudidous, testa membranous, albumen scanty or 0; 

 embryo slender. — Distkib. About 45 species, all but 1 American. 



1. G-. speciosa, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 455; leaves broadly obovate base 

 obtuse or cordate pvibescent beneath, coroUa silky. Lamh. III. t. 154, f. 2; 

 Ro.tb. Fl. Ind. i. 686 ; Wall. Cat. 6219 ; W. %■ A. P-odr. 422 ; Wt. Ic. t. 40 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Oen. t. 17, i. 2 ; Burz For. Fl. ii. 37. Cadamba jasmini- 

 flora, Sonner. Voy. Ind. ii. t. 128. Nictanthes hirsuta, Linn. Sp. PI. 8. Jas- 

 miniun hirsu.tum, WiUd. <§>. PI. i. 36 ; Bheede Hort. Mai. t. 47, 48. 



Littoral and tidal forests of the 'Westeen and Eastern Peninsulas, the ANnAMA2<- 

 Islands, and Cetlon. — Distkib. Tropical shores of the old and new world. 



A small evergreen polygamous tree; branchlets stout, short, petioles leaves- 

 beneath and usually inflorescence pubescent. Leaves 5-10 by 4-7 in., tip acute 

 obtuse or rounded, green when dry; petiole 1-li in.; stipules ovate, pubescent, 

 caducous. Cymes usually from the axils of fallen leaves, long-peduncled, with spread- 

 ing dichotomous few-flowered branches. Calyx velvety, truncate. Corolla \-\\ in., 

 softly pxibescent ; limb 1 in. diam., segments obovate. Drupe woody, globose, ob- 

 scurely lobed.— Eoxburgh observes that he never met with hermaphrodite flowers. 



58.* ANTIRR»a:A, Comm. 



59. TIBIONXVS, Bumph. 



Shrubs or trees._ Leaves^ opposite; stipules ovate-lanceolate, deciduous-. 

 Flowers polygamo-dicecious in axillary cymes; <J cymes with few or many- 

 secund flowers, $ 1-3-flowered, pedicels 2-bracteolate. Calyx-tube short, limb- 



* This genus is introduced into the Key (p. 20) because a common Sumatrau 

 species probably occurs in the Malayan Peninsula, though hitherto unrecorded. 



