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Flo wars in axillary or terminal, umbellate, stalked cymes or panicles. 
Sepals 5 valvate, thick. Petals 5, membranous with a scale at the base. 
Stamens numerous, free, inserted on the inner surface of an annular mar- 
ginally villous sub-cronate disk ; anthers broad, short, versatile, the 
connective sub-orbicular. Ovary sessile, 2-celled, with numerous ovules 
on axile placentas: style short, stigma expanded, papillose. Capsule 
orbicular- reniform, much compressed at light angles to the dissepiments, 
loculicidally 2-valvod, many-seeded. Seeds sub lenticular, with a thin 
imperfect marginally villous arillus; albumen fleshy; embryo central 
the cotyledons orbicular, foliaceons ; radicle straight. Distrib. Z species 
2 of which are Malayan and Polynesian 
1. Teichospermum Kurzii, King. A tree 40 to 60 feet high: bark 
of young branches very dark-coloured, sparsely and minutely stellate- 
pubescent when young, speedily glabrons. Leaves membranous, ovate- 
elliptic, shortly acuminate, minutely serrate-eremite especially near the 
apex ; the base rounded, sub-truncate, sub-cordate, boldly 3-nerved : 
lateral nerves about 4 pairs: the trans verso veins sub-horizontal, curved, 
bold : length 4 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., petiole about '5 in. Panicles 
solitary, axillary or terminal, stalked, cymose, 2-3-chotomous, much 
shorter than the leaves when in flower, nearly as long when in fruit, 
stelhite-tomentose. Sepals oblong, acute, stellate- torn en tose outside, 
glabrous inside except a tuft of hairs at the base. Petals about the size 
and shape of the sepals, glabrescent, with a fleshy scale at the base and 
a transverse belt of long hairs above it. Ovary sessile, densely villous ; 
style shorter than the ovary, cylindric, expanding upwards into the 
broad papillose stigma. Capsule about 75 in. long and slightly wider, 
cmarginate at the apex and crowned by the persistent style : pericarp 
leathery, villous and dark-coloured ; inside white, shining and glabrons ■ 
placentas broad, seeds sessile or short!}' stalked, sub-lenticular, the long 
hairs of the arillus forming a marginal ring. Bixagrewia nicoharica, 
Kurz, Trim. J num. Bofc. for 1875, p. 325, t, 169. 
Nicobars : Kurz. Perak ; King's Collector, Wray. 
The genus Tricliospermutn was founded by Blume for his single 
species I\ Javanicum. The generic definition which I have given above 
differs from that of Bin mo (Bijdr. 56), in these respects. Blume 
describes (I) the aestivation of the sepals imbricate; C-! J {lie style us 
absent; (3) the stigmas as two and emarginatc. The definition also 
differs from that given by Benth. & Hook. (G. P. i. 236) inasmuch as 
these authors describe (1) the petals as naked at the base; (2) anthers 
oblong; (3) style almost nono; (4) stigma sessile, ret use ; (o) the apex 
of the capsule produced into a short thick leathery expansion ; (6) 
leaves entire. 
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