nearly as long as tbe sepals. Staminodes 10 to 20, glabrous, the outer 5 to 15 
shorter than, or as long as, the stamens, filiform; the inner invariably 5, 
short, subulate, internal to, and alternating with, the phalanges of stamens. 
Ovary broadly obovate, obtnse, obscurely 4-grooved, with a few scattered 
hairs near the apex, 4-celled. Style cyliudric, tapering-, with sparse 
spreading hairs. Capsule coriaceous, depresscd-obovoid, pale greyish, 
'5 in. long, rugose; withiu shining pale and wrinkled. Steed solitary, 
oblong, black, less than half covered by a thin arillus proceeding from 
its aide. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 379; Kurz For. FK Burm. 
i. 150; Oudem. in Compt. Rend. Ac. Roy. Sc. Amstord. 2 Ser., 11, 8, 
cum ic; Walp. Ann. vii. 449. Qreivia ? caudata, Wall. Cat. 1099. L, 
keteroclita, Kurz For. Fl. liurm. i. 150. G. keteroclifa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
ii. 590. Binmndykia trichostylis, Kurz in Nat. Tijdsc. Ned. Ind., Ser. 
3, iii. 164. Turrtea trichostylis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, Suppl. 502. 
Malacca, Penang, Perak, Andaman s ; at low elevations. Distrib. 
Malayan Archipelago, Burma. 
Var. Mastersiana, yonng branch os, midribs and petioles of leaves 
puberulous; flowers "5 in. in diam,, the buds pointed; sepals 3- veined: 
outer staminodes varying from 5 to 15, often pubescent in the upper 
half : ovary o Wong- ovoid, villous, 3-celled : style glabrous : capsule 
black. L. acuminata. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 379. 
Malacca and Perak. Disirib. Sumatra, Borneo, Bnrmah. 
This shrub or small tree is common, and I have thus had the 
advantage of being able to examine a large number of flowers. The 
result of my examination of these is that, whereas the inner staminodes 
are invariably 5 in number, the outer series varies in number in the 
most perplexing way from 5 to 15. Where there are 10, they are always 
arranged in pairs united at the base: and where there are 15, they are 
arrauged iu throes united at the base. The proper view to take of these 
staminodes is 1 believe therefore that they are single organs, but some- 
times deeply cleft into 2 or 3 linear and equal segments. On this ac- 
count, and also on account of the similarity of the other organs, I am 
induced to think that there is hut one species of Leptonychia and that 
Masters' species acuminata and Beddome's L. moaenrroides are merely 
forms of the species on which Turczaninow originally founded the genus. 
Order XIX. TILIACE^J. 
Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple or 
lobed. Stipules free, usually caducous. Flowers usually cymose, or in 
cymose panicles, or racemose. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, rarely 
unisexual. Sepals 3-5, free or connate, valvate. Petals as many as the 
sepals, rarely absent, imbricate or valvafe. Stamens numerous, rarely 
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