378 XXVII. STEBCULiACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Suettnerid. 



Eastern Behoal ; Silhet, Da Silva; Assam and Khasia Mts., Griffith; Biema, 

 Wallich, &c. ; Chittagoho, H.f.&T. . , n i, • 



A climbing shrub. Branches hispid with spreading hairs, or thinly stellate-hairy. 

 Leaves 4 in., shortly 3-lobed, lobes deltoid, entire or serrulate, 7-9-nerved_, midrib glan- 

 dular, base deeply cordate, lobes rounded, upper ovate-lanceolate ; petiole 14-4 in., 

 densely rusty-tomentose. Stipules subulate. Inflorescenoe lax, much brancbed; 

 peduncles longer than the petioles. Flowers minute, campanulate. Sepals lanceolate. 

 Petals yellow, incurved, appendage orange. Capsule the size of a large cherry, globose. 

 ■Seed ovate-oblong. 



16. COmniERSONXA, ForsL 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, oblique. Inflorescence cymose, terminal 

 or axillary or leaf opposed. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, concave at the base, 

 prolonged into a long strap-shaped appendage at the apex. Fertile stamens 

 5, opposite the petals ; anthers subglobose, 2-ceUed, cells diverging ; starai- 

 nodes 5, opposite to the sepals, lanceolate. Carpels 5, opposite to the sepals, 

 connate ; styles connate ; ovules 2-6. Capsule loculicidaUy 5-valved, covered 

 ■with bristly hairs. Seeds ascending, albuminous, stropMolate ; cotyledons 

 flat, radicle next the hUum. — Distrib. A genus of about 8 species, some 

 of which are natives of the Malay peninsula and archipelago, others or 

 Australia. 



1. C. platyphylla, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 603, adnot ; leaves broadly 

 ovate-lanceolate oblique steUate-hairy above hoary tomentose beneath. 

 C. javensis, G. Bon Gen. Syst. i 523. C. echinata, Blume Bijdr. 86 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 1143; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 519, ruot 6f Farst. C. echinata, var. /3. Mvi. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 182. Buettneria hypoleuca, Turcz. in Mosc. BvU. 

 1858, 207. 



Malacca, Pehano, and Sincapobb. — ^Distrib. Malay isles. 



A shrub or low tree. Younger iranches softly downy. Leaves 6 by 4 in., obliquely 

 subcordate, subacuminate, irregularly serrulate, nerves with reddish down beneath; 

 petioles 4-| in., downy. Stipvles deciduous, herbaceous, palmately cut. Flowers 

 numerous, rotate, 4 in. diam., in much branched terminal cymose corymbs; ultimate 

 pedicels divaricate, hispid, as long as the flowers. Oalyx-lobes ovate, as long as the 

 tube. Petals 5, base concave, appendage linear. Stamens 5, opposite the petals, and 

 concealed within their concavity ; staminodes 5, lanceolate, opposite the sepals, as long 

 as the petals. Ovary 5-celletl, cells opposite the petals. Capsule globose, the size of 

 a marble, covered with long filiform intricate ciliolated processes. 



Var. Leschenaultii ; leaves glabrescent equally serrate, peduncles opposite the leaves. 



The true O. echinata of Forst, has not yet been met with within the limits of this 

 Flora, though it probably will be discovered in Malacca. It is distinguished from the 

 preceding by its narrower lance-shaped leaves, glabrous on the upper surface. 



17. XiEPTONVCKIA, Turcz. 



' Shrubs or trees. Zeawes simple, entire, ^fowws cymose axillary. Sepals 5, 

 , valvate, distinct nearly to the base. Petals 5, valvate, short, orbicular, con- 

 cave. Andraecium tubular below, filamentous above, filaments 3-seriate, 

 outer series of 10-15 ligulate staminodes opposite the petals, middle of 

 10 fertile stamens also opposite the petals, innermost of 5 very short fleshy 

 subulate staminodes opposite the sepals ; anthers linear-oblong, introrse, de- 

 hiscing at the sides longitudinally. Ovary sessile, 3-^celled ; placentas 

 axile ; styles connate, stigmas capitellate ; ovules many in each cell, ana- 

 tropous. Capsule 2-3-celled, or by abortion 1-celled, dehiscing septicidally 

 or loculicidally, or both, simultaneously or irregularly. Seeds black, 



