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ovaries, which are moreover nearly glabronB and have long stalks. 
Quite ripe fruit is as yet unknown. 
14. GrOXIOTHALAHUS, Blnme. 
Small trees or shrubs. Leaves with small nerves, forming intra- 
marginal loops. Flowers solitary or fascicled, axillary or extra-axillary ; 
peduncles with basal, scaly, distichous bracts. Sepals 3, valvate. Petals 
6, valvate in 2 series ; outer thick, flat or nearly so ; inner smaller, 
shortly clawed, cohering in a vaulted cap over the stamens and ovary. 
Stamens many, linear-oblong ; anther-cells remote, dorsal ; connective 
produced into an oblong or truncate process. Ovaries many ; style 
simple or2-fid ; ovules solitary or 2, superposed, sub-basal (4 in G. uvaru 
oides.) Ripe carpels 1-seeded. — Distrib. About 47 species, natives of 
Eastern tropical Asia and its islands. 
The plants referred to this genus are, by Bail Ion, treated as part of 
Melodorum . 
Ovules 1 or 2. 
Style cylindric, slender; stigma subulate, 
entire 
Style very short ; stigma funnel-shaped, slit 
on one side, itB edges toothed 
Style cylindric ; stigma truncate, entire. 
Flowers in fascicles from the stem only ; 
ripe carpels 1*25 in. long 
Flowers solitary from the axils of the 
leaves or fallen leaves ; ripe carpels 4 
in. long 
Style subulate or cylindric ; stigma deeply 
2-cleft, petals 3 to 5 in. long... 
Style cylindric; stigma unequally 2-tootbed 
Style cylindric ; stigma minutely and equally 
2- toothed. 
Flowers axillary or from the axils of 
fallen leaves ; outer petals more than 
1 in. long. 
Anthers with slightly convex, orbi- 
cular apical appendages 
Anthers with very pointed, conical 
apical appendages. 
Nerves of leaves 28 to 34 pairs 
Nerves of leaves fewer than 
20 pairs. 
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1. 0. subevenius. 
2. G. tenuifoliiLs. 
3. G. Frainianns. 
4. G. Kunstleri. 
5. G. gir/anteus. 
6. G. malayanus, 
7. Q. fulvus. 
8. G, Curtisii. 
