352 XXVI. MALTACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 



more in each, cell, ascending. FruU oblong, 3-5-celled, 3-5-valved, valves 

 muricate, bright red. Seeds few, oblong black with a fleshy orange- 

 coloured, cup-shaped arillus extending over half their surface ; cotyledons 

 amygdaloid; radicle next the bilum. — Distbib. Malay Peninsula and 

 archipelago. Species 2. 



1. B. Gri£StIiil, Mast.; leaves ovate oblong cuspidate penniveined 

 scaly beneath, flowers solitary or 2-3 in short axillary cymes. Heteropyxis, 

 €h-iff. Notul. iv. 524; Ic. PI. As. t. 594. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



A small tree, bark giey, wood reddish. Leaves 3-4 by 1 4-2 in., glabrous above, 

 white and sparingly lepidote beneath ; petiole short. Stipules linear, caducous. Peduncle 

 veiy short. Bracteoles 2-3, deciduous. Flowers J in. diam. Oalyx 4rparted, seg- 

 ments ultimately reflexed. Petals linear-spathulate, variable in number, longer than 

 the calyx. Anthers minute. Ovary covered with spines, each tipped by a peltate 

 stelliform scale. Fruit about 2 in. Seed J in., solitary in each cell. 



21. NEESXA, Blume. 



Trees. Branches marked with large leaf-scars. Leaves entire, feather- 

 veined. Stifmles leafy. Irtflorescence of cymes produced from the stem in 

 the axils of the fallen leaves. Braxieoles 3; connate into a campanulate tube, 

 circumsciss and deciduous, covered, like the sepals, with peltate scales. 

 Calyx closed, ultimately dilated and cushion-shaped at the base, tubular, 

 conical above, opening by a circular irregularly crenulate orifice at the top. 

 Petals 5, free, imbricate. Stamens in 5 bundles, alternate with the petals, 

 each dividing midway into numerous filaments, the terminal or central one 

 of which bears a 2-lobed and the lateral filaments a 1-lobed exirorse anther 

 opening lengthwise, connective thick ; staminodes 0. Ovary very shortly 

 stalked, oblong, 5-ceUed ; style short ; stigma conic ; ovules numerous 2- 

 seriate, horizontal, anatropous. Fruit ovoid, woody, muricate, loculicidally 

 5-valved. Seeds albuminous ; aril ; cotyledons flat, leafy. (Fruit and 

 seed after Blume.) — Disteib. Two species, a Javanese and Malaccan. 



1. N. synandra, Mast. 



Penang, Maingay. 



A lolty tree, trunk stout. Leaves 9-12 by 4^5 in., cordate-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 

 minutely puberulons ; petiole 2 in. Stipules oblong, 1-nerved, IJ in. Pedunde stout, 

 angular. i^»T«'t of .Oiw-tare, (Maingay).— ThisdifFers from Biume'siV.oittssiTrea in the form 

 of the leaf and particularly in the stamens, which are described and figured by Blume as 

 joined at the base only. Neesia Griffithii of herbaria, and upon which Bentham 

 (Gen. PI. i. 213) partly constructed, as it would seem, the generic character, is a true 

 I)ario {D. Oxleyanvs, Griff.). 



22.' Ca:x.OSTEGXA, Benth. 



A tail tree. Leaves simple, quite entire, scaly beneath. Mowers axillary, 

 fascicled, subsessile. Bracteoles 3-4, scaly, combined below into a cup- 

 shaped tube. Sepals 5, lanceolate, much longer than the bracteoles, connate 

 below the middle into a 5-lobed 5-pouched cup. Petals 5, free, attached to 

 the base of the calyx and much smaller than it. Stamens in 5 bundles 

 opposite to the sepals and adherent to their bases, included ; anthers small, 

 subglobbse. Ovary partly immersed in the calyx-tube, 5-celled ; cells few- 

 ovuled; style filiform, stigma large capitate peltate 5-lobed. Fruit un- 

 known. — The following is the only known species. 



