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ORDER XXV. OLACACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, often with spines: leaves simple, alter- 
nate, without stipules, occasionally wanting: calyx small, entire 
or slightly toothed, afterwards becoming enlarged: petals hypo- 
gynous, 3-6, valvate in estivation, distinct or cohering in pairs: 
stamens 3-10, hypogynous, usually cohering with the petals, 
some fertile, some sterile: filaments compressed: anthers erect, 
2-celled, bursting lengthwise: ovary 1-4-celled: cells 3-4-ovul- 
ed: style simple, with a 3-4-lobed stigma: fruit a drupe, inde- 
hiscent, often surrounded by the calyx, 1-celled, 1-seeded: seed 
pendulous; albumen large and fleshy. 
GENUS I, OLAX. 
Triandria Wonogymia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv, From the Greek term for a furrow, alluding to the split 
flowers. 
Gen. Cuan. Trees or shrubs, with quite entire leaves: calyx 
entire: petals 5, four united by pairs to the middle, the fifth dis- 
tinct, or six and all in pairs: ovary 1-celled, with 3 pendulous 
avules; stigma 3-lobed. 
(1) O. Zeyzanica. (Linn.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 88.—Dec. prod. I. p. 532. 
Srsc., Cuar. Tree: young branches acutely angled : leaves gla- 
brous, ovate-acuminate: racemes axillary, few-flowered: pedicel 
short: sterile filaments with their upper part bifid. 
Concans. 
(2) O. scanpEns. (Rozxb.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 89.—Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 162,— 
Dec. prod. I. p. 532. 
Syn. O. obtusa, Blume.—Roxburghia baccata, Koen, 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor. II. t. 102. 
Spec. Cuan. Climbing shrub, thorny: young branches pubes- 
cent: leaves oval, more or less pubescent beneath: racemes axil- 
lary, solitary, pubescent: petals 5-6: sterile stamens with the 
upper part bifid: flowers small, white. 
Coromandel forests, flowering in the hot season, 
