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ovaries, which are moreover nearly glabrous and have long stalks. 

 Quite ripe fruit is as yet unknown. 



14. GrONiOTHALAMUS, Blume. 

 Small trees or shrubs. Leaves with small nerves, forming intra- 

 marginal loops. Flowers solitary or fascicled, axillary or extra-axillary ; 

 peduncles with basal, scaly, distichous bracts. Sepals 3, valvate. Petals 

 6, valvate in 2 series ; outer thick, flat or nearly so ; inner smaller, 

 shortly clawed, cohering in a vaulted cap over the stamens and ovary. 

 Stamens many, linear-oblong ; anther-cells remote, dorsal ; connective 

 produced into an oblong or truncate process. Ovaries many ; style 

 simjue or 2-fid ; ovules solitary or 2, superposed, sub-basal (4 in G. uvari- 

 oides.) Pipe carpels 1-seeded. — Distrib. About 47 species, natives of 

 Eastern tropical Asia and its islands. 



The plants referred to this genus are, by Baillon, treated as part of 

 Melodorum. 

 Ovules 1 or 2. 



Style cylindric, slender ; stigma subulate, 



entire 

 Style very short ; stigma funnel-shaped, slit 



on one side, its edges toothed 

 Style cylindric ; stigma truncate, entire. 



Flowers in fascicles from the stem only ; 



ripe carpels 1'25 in. long 

 Flowers solitary from the axils of the 

 leaves or fallen leaves ; ripe carpels "4 

 in. long 

 Style subulate or cylindric ; stigma deeply 



2-cleft, petals 3 to 5 in. long... 

 Style cylindric ; stigma unequally 2-toothed 

 Style cylindric ; stigma minutely and equally 

 2-toothed. 



Flowers axillary or from the axils of 

 fallen leaves ; outer petals more than 

 1 in. long. 



Anthers with slightly convex, orbi- 

 cular apical appendages 

 Anthers with very pointed, conical 

 apical appendages. 



Nerves of leaves 28 to 34 pairs 

 Nerves of leaves fewer than 

 20 pairs. 



1. 



G. subevenius. 



2. 



G. tenuifolms. 



3. 



G. Prainiamis. 



4. 



G. Ktmstleri. 



5. 

 6. 



G. giganteus. 

 G. malayanus. 



G. fulvxis. 



8. G. Curtisii. 



