72 G, King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. No. 1, 
lobed, whorled. Flowers in dense cylindric spikes, less than 1 in, long 
DC. Prodr. lY, 94. 
SiNGAPOiiE : King's Collector 333. 
Order LVII. CORNACE/B. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, more or leas coria- 
eeotis, usually petiolate, entire, rarely serrate or lobed, often unequal 
at the base, exstipulate. Flowers uauallj small, regular, bermaphrodito 
or nnisexnal, in axillary or terminal cyraes, panicles or capi tales. 
Cahjie-ttJtbe adherent to the ovary ; the limb trnncate or 4-5-toothed 
or lobed, vallate or imbricate, persistent at the apex of the fruit. 
Petals 4-5, sometimes as many as 20, or none, valvate or imbricate- 
Stam&ns inserted with the petals and equal to them in nnmber, rarely 
2 or 3 times as many. Ovary inferior, 1-4-ceUed, crowned by a large 
floahy or rarely small disc. Style single, long or short ; stigma trun- 
cate, capitate or pyramidal, sometimes lobed. Ovules solitary in each 
cell (rarely 2), pendulotifl from, the apex. Fruit baccate, (the pulp 
often scanty), usually l-celled, sometimes as many as 4-celled. Seed 
ohlong, pendnlous, with copious fleshy albamen ; embryo axile minute 
or often large with flat leafy cotyledons. — Distmb, Species about 90, 
widely scattered but most abaadanfc in the temperate regions of the 
Northern Hemisphere. 
Plowera liermapiirodite : — 
Petal B not larg&r than the ^obelt of the calyx s antlieTH 
ahorb, ovat© and cordate } atylo short. ... ... 1, Mastixia* 
Petals maob. longer thOrn the lobers of the: c«Llyx ^ anthers 
long, linear; Btjle elongate ... .„ 3. Alangidm. 
Ftowers uniflsiaal ... ... ... ... 3. Nysba. 
1. Maetixia, Blum©. 
Trees, yoang parts more or less pnbeacent. Leaves alternate or 
opposite, petioled, entire. Fhwers hermaphrodite, often 2-bracteolate, 
small, in terminal many- flowered cymoao panicles ; bracts small or 
lengthened, pedicels short or 0, jointed under the flower. Calyx4ube 
campannlate, pubescent or silky ; limb 5-4- toothed. Petals 5~4, OTate, 
leathery, valvate, pubescent, silky. Stamens 5-4 ; anthers cordate-ob- 
long. Ovary l~celled ; disc fl^eahy ; style cylindric, simple ; ovule 1, 
pendulous from one side of the cell very near its summit. Drupe ellip- 
soid or ovoid, crowned by the calyx-teeth or a scar j pntaroen grooved 
down one face; endocarp protruded inwards down one side. Seed ellip- 
soid; albumen fleshy ; embryo email, radicle elongate, cotyledons thin, 
elliptic, — DiSTRiB. Species 18 ; S. India and Malaya. 
