584 XXXIX. OLACiNE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Opilia. 



Bat. i. pt. i. 784 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. t. ix. f. 3. 0. javanica, Mici. M. 

 hid. Bat. i. pt. i. 174. Ximenia ? olacoides, W. <Sc A. Prodr. i. 89. 



Western Peninsula; Northern Ciroars, Roxburgh; Pulney Mt?., Wight; Pegu, 

 Kmz; Ceylon, in hot dry parts of the island, TAicaiies.— Distrib. Islands of the 

 Archipelago, tropical Australia and Africa. 



A low scrambling shrub, or small weat tree; herbaceous portions^ puberulous. 

 Leaves 2-4 by lJ-2 in., coriaceous, glabrous, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, entire, 1-nerved, 

 arch-nerved, base tapering; petiole |-4 in. Racemes l-lj in., erect, before flowering 

 resembling cones. Flmoers crowded. Bracts imbricate, at fiiBt concealing the flowers, 

 peltate, roundish, deciduous. Pedicels ^V in., puberulous. Flowers 4 in. Calyx 

 minute. Petals 5, deciduous, each iV in., oblong, obtuse, alternating with the lobes of 

 the calyx. Glands (staminddes ?) oblong, obtuse, half the lengtli of the stamens. 

 Drvpe ovoid or globose. Emhryo linear neariy as long as the albumen. — Beddome 

 describes the ovule as erect, but this is probably an oversight. 



12. Z.ASXANTHERA, Fal. de Beauv. 



Shrubs or trees, sometimes scandent. Leaves petioled, alternate, simple, 

 l-nerved, coriaceous. (Jymes axillary, stalked. Flowers dichlamydeous, herma- 

 phrodite or unisexual. Calyx minute, cup-shaped, 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, free 

 or rarely cohering, without an inilexed point and with no prominent midrib. 

 IStamens 5, hypogynous, free, alternate with the petals, filaments flat, dilated 

 above, hairy behind, hairs curving over the anther in the bud ; anthers 

 adnate, 2-lobed, dehiscing lengthwise. HypogynoiLS dish cup-shaped, more 

 or less lobed. Ovary ovoid, 1-celled, tapering intoa subulate style, terminated 

 by a minute stigma ; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit drupaceous ; stone fibrous 

 outside, woody within. Seed pendulous ; embryo in albumen, cotyledons 

 leafy broad, radicle superior (Thwaites). — Disteib. Species 4-5, 1 African, 

 the others Malayan. 



1. Xi. apicalis, Thwaites Enum. 43 and 403 ; leaves obovate-oblong 

 shortly and abruptly acuminate, petals free or nearly so, fruit ellipsoid. 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 139. Urandra apicalis, Thwaites in Hook. Kew Jowrn. 

 vii. 211. Stemonurus apicalis, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 110 ; Vontrib. 

 i. 305. ? S. secundiflorus, Blume Bijdr. 649. Lasianthera secundiflora, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. t. ii. 



Ceylon ; in damp forests, alt. 1-3000 ft., Thwaites. — Disteib. Borneo. 



A large tree. Branches terete, glabrous. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., coriaceous, gla- 

 brous, midiib depressed above, prominent beneath, base tapering into a short petiole, 

 ^-J in. Peduncles about as long as the petiole, axillary, subsolitary, cymes congested 

 7-12 fl. i^towcrs greenish-purple. CaZ^a; cup-shaped, 5-lobed, lobes roundish. Petals 

 3 or 4 times longer than the calyx, ovate or roundish. Stamens as long as or longer than 

 the petals. Ovary ovoid, surrounded by an hypogynous cupular lobulate disk, tapering 

 alove into a subulate style, stigma minute. Drupe Ij by J in., stone woody lacunose, 

 mesocarp fibrous. Tcsto consolidated with the pericarp. Embryo 'hai.i the size of the 

 albumen ; cotyledons leafy, cordate-ovate, acute, as long as the superior radicle. 

 (Thwaites.) 



2. Xi. malaccensls, Mast. ; leaves oblong-lanceolate abruptly acumi- 

 nate, calyx puberulous, petals coherent. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A scandent shrub (Maingay). Leaves 4^-5^ by 2 in., coriaceous, glabrous, midrib 

 prominent, secondary nerves obscure ; petiole scarcely 4 in. Cymes axillary, stalked ; 

 peduncle compressed, as long as the petiole ; pedicels shorter than the flowers, ascending. 

 Flowers I in. Calyx shallow, lobes deltoid acute. Petals 4-5 times longer than the 

 calyx, slightly coherent, externally glabrous, linear, spotted within. Filaments flat, 



