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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. Maunii) 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 baso narrowed ; edges entire or obsoletely serrate ; midrib 
prominent especially beneath, nerves invisible ; length 2 to 4 in., breadth 
1*25 to 1"75 in., potiole *1 to "2 in. Flowers 65 in. in diam., peduncles 
- 4 to '75 in. loug, 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, tho 
apex minutely apieulate, erect, conniving. Stamens about 30, tho inner 
shorter: filaments united by their bases, pilose : anthers with 2 narrow 
lateral cells; tho connective broad and pilose bohind, its apex mucronate. 
Ovary 5-cellcd, 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, roniform. 
Wall. Cat. 3664, (corrected at p. 215 to 3666) and 7071. Dyer in Hook, 
fil. Fl Ind. i, 282 ; Miq. Ft Ind. Bat. i, Pt. 2, p. 477 ; Choisy Mem. 
Ternst. 24. A. Jackiana and triohoooryna, Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. 
Bot. 106, 107. A. cyrtopoda, sttjlosa and glabra^ Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 
Suppl. i, 478, 479. Ternstrmmia ? dutnosa, Wall. Cat. 2245. Camellia ? 
Scottiana, Choisy 1. c. (not of Wall. Herb.). 
In all the provinces except the Andaraans and Nicobars, at low 
elevations, common. Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 
2. Adinandra acuminata, Kortli. Yerh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 109. A 
tree 40 to 60 feet high ; all parts except tho 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 vorrucose after 
flowering; bracteoles leathery, lanceolate, at some distance from tke calyx, 
alternate. Sepals leathery, glabrous ; the two outer small, ovate; the 
three inner much larger, spreadiug, rotund, the edges serrulate. Petals 
larger than tho inner sepals, rotund, spreading, fleshy, tho edges thin. 
Stamens about 40, the iuuer smaller : filaments united by their bases, 
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