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LXYII. MYRSINACE.E 





1. A, oxyantha, "Wall. Kliasi liills. Malay Peninsula. A single-stemmed slirub, 

 witli horizontal brandies and very dark foliage. L. membranous, glabrous, lanceolate, 

 blade 5-7, pet. slender i-J, petalb J in. long. "Buds long acuminate, sepals, petals and 

 ovary glandular-dotted. "2. A. serratifolia, Hook. f. {Ardida serrafifoUa, Bedd. Ic. Ind. 

 Or. t" 113). Young slioots and 1. beneatb along the nerves rusty tomentose, I. sharply 

 serrate, petals ^ in. long. 



Amblyantliopsis memtoanacea, Mez (Ardi&ia memhranacea, Wall). Khasi hills. 

 Cachar. A bmall almost herbaceous shrub, 1. thinly membranous, glabrous, lanceo- 

 late, crenate, underside with numerous black glandular dots. Fl. small, in pedunculate 

 axillary umbels, corolla-lobes round, emarginate, anthers free, basiiixed, filaments as 

 loni> as anthers, ovary obovoid. 



0, AEGICERAS, G^rtn.; M. Brit. Ind. iii. 533. 



A. majus, Gfsertn. (probably the only species); WigLt 111. t. 146 ; Bedd. 

 Man. t. xix. — Syn. A. cornicylafa^ Blanco. Vern. Ktdsij Klialshi^ KoUsJiaj 

 Beng ; Kanjala, Mar. ; Butaletj Burm. 



A large evergreen glabrous shrub or .small tree, gregarious^ coppices well, 

 bark grey. L. scattered, coria- 

 ceous, obovate, blade 2-3, nar- 

 rowed into pet. I in. long. 

 Umbels many-fid. at the ends 

 of branches usually naked be- 

 low, with a few 1. below the 

 umbel, pedicels slender. FL 

 white, fragrant, sepals and cor- 

 olla-lobes twisted in bud, the 

 right hand edge overlapping, 

 corolla |-V in. long, lobes 

 refiexed. Anther-cells trans- 

 versely septate. Ovules num- 

 erous, in several tiers on the 

 globose placenta. Fr. cylindric, 

 curved, acuminate, 1-2 in. long, 

 seed one, same shape as fr., 

 albumen none. The seed ger- 

 minates within the pericarp on 

 the tree, sending down, a long 

 radicle. 



Bea coast and banks of tidal 

 rivers, Sind, Western Peninsula 

 on both sides, Sundriban, Anda- 

 mans, Burma. Fl. Dec-May. Sea 

 coasts of tx'opical Asia, Australia 

 and the South Pacific Islands, 

 Mez (Myrsin. 57) describes a second 

 species {A, florid urn, Boem, et 

 Sehult.) from islands in the Pacific. 



Fig. 161. — Aegiceras maJus, Gfertn. J. 



Obdbe LXVIII. SAPOTACEiE. Oen. PL ii. 650. 



Trees, sometimes shrubs, 1. entire, usually alternate and coriaceous, stipules 

 early caducous or none. Fl. bisexual, as a rule in axillary clusters, bracts and 

 bracteoles minute or 0. Calyx persistent, segments 4-8, almost distinct, 

 corolla-tube short, lobes 4-24. Stamens inserted on the tube, as many as 

 corolla-lobes and opposite them, or 2-B times as many ; filaments usu.ally shorter 

 than anthers. Ovary free, l-12~celledj style filiform or cylindric, stigma 

 punctiform, ovules solitary in each cell. Fr. a l-S-seeded berry, seeds with a 

 crustaceous shining testa, oily, exalbuminous with large fleshy cotyledons or 

 albuminous with flat cotyledons. 



