280 XXIV. TEENSTRffiMiACEiE. (W. T. Thiseltou Dyer.) 



Tribe IV. Bonnetieee. Flowers in terminal panicles, rarely Jateral and 

 solitary or racemose. Petals contorted. Anthers versatile or basifixed. 

 FruU indehiscent or septicidal; albumen scanty or 0. Embryo straight, 

 cotyledons flat ; radicle short. 



Ovary 5-celled 14- AECHrT-EA. 



Poedloneuron is referred to Gutti/erce. (p. 278.) 



1. ANNESXiEA, Wall. 

 Evergreen trees with the habit of Ternstrtemia. Flowers axillary an4 

 forming sub-terminal umbellate coiymbs, rather large, white. Sepals 5, 

 connate into a tube which is finally fleshy and adherent to the ovary. Fetali 

 5, connate. Stamens many, scarcely adherent to the corolla ; anthers with 

 a long apiculus. Omri/ |-immersed in the torus, 3-celled ; style 3-fid ; 

 ovules many, pendulous from the top of the cells, ^j-aii baccate, leathery, 

 inferior, crowned by the sepals. Seeds oblong with a horse-shoe-shaped' 

 cavity, testa osseous, albumen fleshy. — Disteib. Malay Peninsula ; species 2. 



1. A. fragrans, Wall. Cat. 598 ; Plant. As. Par. i. 5, t. 5 ; peduncles 

 about twelve in each corymb 2^3 in. slender with 2 ovate obtuse bracts. 

 Griff. Noiul. iv. 567, t 585 A, f. 17. 



Eastekn Penjhsula ; Maulmein and Martaban, Wallich, &c. 



A tree 30 ft. Leaves 3J-6 by lJ-24 in., elliptic-oblong, acute or obtnse; petioles 

 |r-l in. Sepals 4 in i cordiform, acute. Fruit 1 in. diam. Seeds with a thin scarlet 

 fleshy envelope. 



2. A. crassipes, Hooh ex. Chois. Mem. Ternstr. 41 ; peduncles 3-6 in 

 each corymb about 1 in. rather thick with 2 small ovate acute fleshy 

 bracts. 



Eastekn Penihscla ; Mt. Ophir, Malacca, Griffith, &c. — Disteib. Philippine Islds. 



A tree. Leaves 2-4J by lJ-2 iu., lanceolate elliptic or oblanceolate, crennlate, acute 

 or obtuse; petioles J-1 in. FUmen as in j1. /rajron« but drooping. SepaXs Jin., 

 orbicular, acute. Fruit % in. diam. 



2. TBXtMSTXtailMCXA, Linn. 



Glabrous evergreen trees or shruts. Leaves leathery, entire or crenate- 

 serrate. Peduncles lateral, recurved, 2-bracteate below the flower. Sepals 5. 

 Petals 5, connate at the base. Stamens many ; anthers glabrous. Ovary 

 2-3-celIed; style simple, often 0, stigma broadly 2-3-lobed or subentire; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, rarely 1 or 3-6, pendulous from the apex. Seeds as in 

 Anneslea but the albumen sometimes evanescent. — Disteib. Trop. Asia and 

 America; species 25.. 



* Anthers apiculate. 



1. T. japonica, Thunh. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 335 ; a tree about 20 ft., 

 leaves obloug-obovate petioled, style subentire, stigma 2-lobed, fruit glo- 

 bose. Cleyera japonica, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 224 {not of Sieb. & Zucc). 



Eastern Bengal and Pekinsdla, from the Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft. to Moul- 

 mein. Westekn Peninsula; Nilghiri Mts.; Ceylon. — Disteib. Sumatra, China, 

 -Japan, Lpochoo Islds. 



Branchlets with rather soft bark, whorled or repeatedly forked. Leaves 2-3 by 

 1-1 1 in., raiher crowded at the ends of the branches; petioles J-i in. Peduncles 

 i-% in., 2-edged. Flowers ^ in. diam"., in the axils of the fallen leaves; corolla 

 spreading, pale yellow. OvdryceUs 2-ovuled. Fruit i-| in. diam., baccate, almost 



