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'75 to 1*25 in., flat, more or loss winged. Flowers 125 to 1*5 in. in diam., 
axillary, crowded at the apicos of the branches and forming lax terminal 
pseudo-corymbs ; pednncles I to 1*5 in. long, slender, thickened towards 
the apex, glabrous or pubescent, bractcoles minute. Sepals rounded, or 
sub-acute, glabrous or glabrescenfc, the margins minutely ciliate, about *15 
in. long. Petals thin, veined, obovate, clawed, their bases pubescent and 
their edges ciliate in the lower half, white or pale pink. Stamens 5- 
delphoua ; anthers sub-rotund, small, the filaments 4 or 5 times as long. 
Ovary depressed-hemispheric, pubescent, 5-celled. Style thick; stigma 
discoid, with 5 blunt lobes. Fruit '75 in. in dLam., adpressed- pubescent 
when young, glabrous or sub-glabrous when old-, upper part of columella 
expanded, 5-angled. Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 143, t. 29, figs. 21 
to 27. Choisy Mem. Ternst. 54 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. i, p. 492 ; 
Ana. Mus. Lugd. Bafc. IV, 112; Kurz For, Fl Burm. i, 107. S. crenata, 
Korth. 1. c. t. 29, Egs. 1 to 20 ; Miq. Floral, c. 491 ; Ann. 1. c. 113 j Kurz 
1. c. 107; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 289. Pierre Fl, Forest Coch.-Chine, t. 
121. Oordonia floHbuvda, Wall. Cat. 1456; Griff. Not. iv, 563. O. 
oblata, Roxb. Fl, Ind. ii, 572. 
In all the provinces except the Andanmns and Nicobars. Distrib. 
The Malayan Archipelago, Burniah, at elevations of 1000 to 3000 feet. 
This rather widely distributed species varies remarkably little. In 
spite, however, of this, Korthal, carved out if it his species S. crenata, 
which he states to have the same calyx, corolla, stamens, ovary, style and 
stigma as Reinwardt's Noronhae, but to differ in the leaves and capsule. 
His own descriptions and figures of leaves and capsule, however, of both 
species are practically identical. The only other really distinct speeies 
of the genus appear to me to be £>. Khasiatta, Dyer, S. bancana t Miq, 
and perhaps S. Wallichii t Choisy. 
9. Gordonia, Ellis. 
Trees with evergreen entire or crenate leaves. Flowers usually 
large, often subsessile, solitary in the axils of tho leaves or collected at 
the ends of the branches, 2-4 bracteolate. Sepals usually 5, unequal, 
graduating from the bracts to the petals. Petals free or united at the 
base, imbricate, the inner larger. Stamens indefinite, 5-dolphous or 1- 
delphous, adnate to the petals: anthers versatile. Ovary 3-5-celled ; 
style singlo ; the stigma flat, rotund, rather thick, sometimes lobed ; 
ovules pendulous, 4 to 8 in each cell. Gaps u Ic oblong, woody, loculicidal, 
with a persistent column. Seeds flat or compressed, the apex often 
winged, albumen none; embryo usually straight, the cotyledons ovate, 
flat or plicate. Distrib. Tropical, Asia N. America. Species about 
15. 
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