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in each cell. Fruit globose, subtended by the persistent calyx and 

 crowned by the style. Seeds many, small, albumen fleshy. Distrib. 

 Confined (except the W. African A. Mannii) to the Malay Peninsula and 

 Indian Archipelago ; species 12. 



1. Adinandra dumosa, Jack in Malay Misc. ii, No. 7, p. 50. A large 

 shrub or small tree, glabrous everywhere except the stamens ; young 

 branches slender, terete, dark brown. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, reddish 

 beneath, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, more or less acute or obtusely acu- 

 minate, the base narrowed ; edges entire or obsoletely serrate ; midrib 

 prominent especially beneath, nerves invisible ; length 2 to 4 in., breadth 

 l - 25 to 1'75 in., petiole '1 to "2 in. Flowers '65 in. in diam., peduncles 

 '4 to '75 in. long, not thickened after flowering ; bracteoles leathery, 

 broadly ovate, opposite, close to the calyx. Sepals sub-erect, glabrous, 

 leathery, ovate-rotund, blunt, sometimes emarginate. Petals longer 

 than the sepals, membranous, oblong-lanceolate with broad bases, the 

 apex minutely apiculate, erect, conniving. Stamens about 30, the inner 

 shorter : filaments united by their bases, pilose : anthers with 2 narrow 

 lateral cells ; the connective broad and pilose behind, its apex mucronate. 

 Ovary 5-celled, the placentas incurved, multi-ovulate ; style subulate: 

 stigma small, simple. Fruit '4 to '5 in. in diam., baccate, dry, with coria- 

 ceous pericarp, imperfectly 4-5-celled. Seeds numerous, reniform. 

 Wall. Cat. 3664, (corrected at p. 215 to 3666) and 7071. Dyer in Hook, 

 fil. FI. Ind. i, 282 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i, Pt. 2, p. 477 ; Choisy Mem. 

 Ternst. 24. A. Jaclciana and trichocoryna, Korth. Verb.. Nat. Gesch. 

 Bot. 106, 107. A. cyrtopoda, stylosa and glabra, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. i, 478, 479. Temstrcemia ? dumosa, Wall. Cat. 2245. Camellia ? 

 Scottiana, Choisy 1. c. (not of Wall. Herb.). 



In all the provinces except the Andamans and Nicobars, at low 

 elevations, common. Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



2. Adinandra acuminata, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 109. A 

 tree 40 to 60 feet high ; all parts except the stamens glabrous ; young 

 branches slender, smooth, dark-coloured ; the older pale and rough. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the base acute, both sur- 

 faces shining ; midrib prominent below ; the 9 to 11 pairs of nerves rather 

 prominent below when dry, forming a double series of arches inside the 

 margin ; length 3'5 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 2"5 in., petiole "25 in. Flowers 

 •9 in. in diam. ; peduncles '75 to 1 in. long, thickened and verrucose after 

 flowering ; bracteoles leathery, lanceolate, at some distance from the calyx, 

 alternate. Sepals leathery, glabrous ; the two outer small, ovate ; the 

 three inner much larger, spreading, rotund, the edges serrulate. Petals 

 larger than the inner sepals, rotund, spreading, fleshy, the edges thin. 

 Stamens about 40, the inner smaller : filaments united by their bases, 



