,50 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
disk crowning the ovary ; free or connate in a ring around the style ; 
anthers 2-celled, the cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally and in- 
trorsely. Ovary 1-2-celled; style simple with a cup-shaped sheath 
including the stigma ; ovules 1 or many in each cell, erect or ascending, 
rarely pendulous, inserted on the dissepiment or central. Fruit an 
indehiscent drupe or a capsule with 2 or 4 valves usually dehiscing 
irregularly. Seeds albuminous ; testa thin crustaceous or thick and 
hard ; embryo erect in the axis of the fleshy albumen, the radicle 
inferior. — Distkib. Over 200 species, mostly Australian, a few in New 
Zealand, Antarctic America, the Pacific Islands, or on the coasts of 
tropical Asia, Africa, and the West Indies. 
1. SCiEVOLA, Linn. 
Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, rarely 
opposite, entire or toothed. Flowers axillary, solitary or in dichotomously 
branched cymes, sessile or pedicellate. Calyx with the tube adnate to 
the ovary, turbinate, ovoid or globose ; limb short, annular or 5-lobed, 
sometimes obsolete. Corolla oblique, split to the base behind, lobes 
sub-equal or the two uppermost shorter, at length digitately patent. 
Stamens free. Ovary 2-celled, with solitary erect ovules in each cell, 
or 1-celled with 1—2 erect ovules ; sheath cupular ; stigma truncate or 
divaricately 2-lobed. Fruit an indehiscent drupe, exocarp thin or fleshy, 
endocarp hard and woody rarely crustaceous. Seeds solitary ; embryo 
smooth, cotyledons sometimes broader than the inferior radicle. 
Distbib. About 60 species, 2 Asiatic, 8-10 of the Pacific Islands and 
the coasts of Asia, 1 extending to the coasts of Africa and the West 
Indies, the rest Australian. 
Sg®vola Koenigii, Yahl Symb. III. 36 (1794). An evergreen 
large glabrous shrub with stout stem and branches, soft spongy pith and 
coarse fibrous wood. Leaves alternate, sessile, obovate-oblong, obtuse 
at apex, decurrent at base, 3 to 6 in. long, about 2 in. broad, entire 
or obscurely crenate, more or less fleshy when green, membranous 
when dry, silky pubescent on both sides or somewhat glabrous on the 
upper surface, tufted hairy in the axils ; midrib stout, prominent, 
broad, main-nerves 10-12 pair, slender, arching upwards and joining 
near the margin, secondary nerves few slender, reticulations many, 
indistinct. Flowers white, in axillary few-flowered dichotomous 
pubescent cymes shorter than the leaves; bracts small, subulate, about 
■1 in. long; common peduncle '5 to '6 in. long; pedicels ’1 to ‘2 in. long; 
bracteoles 2, similar to the bracts. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, 
■2 in. long, densely villous ; lobes '2 to "3 in. long, linear-lanceolate or 
spathulate, ciliate, pubescent, enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube '7 to - 8 in. 
