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small, linear without claw, or absent. Stamens numerous, free, some- 
times inserted on the apex of a short gynophore ; anthers oblong, 2- 
celled: cells parallel, with longitudinal sutural dehiscence. Staminodes 
0. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, imperfectly 3 to 5-celled; cells with 
2 ovules from the base of the axile placentas, style filiform ; stigmas 
3 to 5, linear fleshy, reflexed. Capsule with crustaceous fragile pericarp, 
dehiscing irregularly, 1 -eel led (by abortion), 1- to 3-seeded. Seeds snb- 
globose, with leathery smooth testa, exalbuminous : the cotyledons 
large, leafy, thin, crumpled : embryo straight. Distrib. 5 ( species, of 
which 4 arc Malayan and 1 Cambodian. 
Flowers in panicles or solitary, axillary. 
Calyx very accrescent \ery deeply lobed 1. £. Mastersii. 
„ slightly accrescent not deeply lobed 2. S. Kunstleri. 
Flowers in donne axillary glomeruli ... 3. S. ylonwrata. 
I. Scuoutenu Mastersii, King. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : 
young brandies slender, dark-coloured, at first scaly but soon glabrouR. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate -lanceolate, slightly obovate, shortly and 
bluntly acuminate, the base rounded ; upper surface glabrous, the lower 
minutely and softly tawny-toraentose ; nerves slightly prominent beneath, 
about 3 pairs lateral and 1 pair basal : length *75 to 325 in. ; breadth 
■4 to 1*1 in.; petiole loss than '1 in. Flowers solitary and axillary, or 
in terminal leafy panicles; the pedicels from '35 to 75 in. according to 
age, tawny-tomentose, jointed below the middle. Calyx membranous, 
pink, conspicuously veined, at first widely campanulate, *35 in. long, 
with 5 shallow teeth becoming w T ith the ripening of the fruit, rotate, flat 
1*5 to 2 in. in diam., and 5-angled ; pubescent outside, glabrous within. 
Filaments very slender, longer than the style. Ovary obovoid-globose, 
tawny-tomentose. Style stout, three timeB as long as tho ovary, tomen- 
tose : stigmas scaly. Fruit depressed-globose, "3 in. in diam., minutely 
tomcntose. Chartacalyx accre&cens, Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 
382. 
Malacca, Penang, Perak. Distrib. Borneo. 
On this plant the late Dr. ilaingay founded his genus Ghartacalyr. 
The only points, however, in which it differs from Schoutenia (as defined 
by Bentham and Hooker) are tho absence of petals and the presence of 
a stalk to the ovary on the upper part of which the stamens are inserted ; 
and those appear to roe to be, in this order, differences of quite minor 
importance. Maiugay never saw the fruit of this ; but copious fruiting 
specimens have recently been collected and the fruit is found to be 
exactly that of Sehontcnia. As regards the structure of the seeds of 
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