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(for the Order) white, pedicellate, without bracteoles, in terminal or 
axillary umbels or panicles, pedicels slender. Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes 
obtuse, coriaceous, twisted to the left, overlapping to the right ; tube 
none. Corolla with short tube ; lobes 5, acute, overlapping to the right 
in bud, afterwards recurved. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube ; 
filaments elongate, connate into a tube below; anthers with transversely 
septate cells, cordate-lanceolate, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally. 
Ovary fusiform, narrowed into an elongated style ; stigma acute ; 
ovules many, immersed in a central globose placenta. Fruit cylindric, 
curved, acute, coriaceous, 1-seeded; pericarp coriaceous, afterwards 
splitting, testa membranous. Seed elongate, exalbuminous ; radicle 
inferior, enlarged at the base, joined with the cotyledons into a cylindric 
tube ; germination often taking place while still on the plant, as in 
some Rliizophorece. — Distrib. Two species, of the sea-coasts of 
India, Burma, the Malay Peninsula and Islands, to South China and 
tropical Australia. 
2Egiceras majus, Gaertn. FrUet. I. 216, t. 46, fig. 1 (1788). A 
shrub or small tree reaching 15 to 20 feet in height, evergreen, all 
parts glabrous ; branches greyish-black, smooth ; branchlets reddish. 
Leaves coriaceous; obovate, rounded obtuse or emarginate at apex 
sometimes even obcordate, cuneate at base, margins recurved ; glan- 
dular dots many, inconspicuous ; 1-5 to 3-5 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. 
broad ; midrib slender, raised above or sometimes depressed ; main- 
nerves about 10 pairs, slender, raised above, straight at first then 
curving upwards; secondary nerves slender, few, reticulations not 
prominent ; petiole -2 to -3 in. long, thick, bordered by the deeurrent 
margins of the blade. Inflorescence a terminal, axillary or leaf-opposed 
many- (15 to 20) flowered umbel, sessile or very short peduncled; 
bracts oblong-lanceolate, deciduous ; pedicels slender, -3 to -5 in. long ; 
buds conical. Calyx-lobes concave, gibbous at the base, broadest at 
top, -25 in. long, T5 in. broad, with parallel veins and scattered black 
dots in the lower part. Corolla-lobes ovate, acuminate, glabrous, 
parallel-veined, -25 in. long, recurved; tube as long as lobes, villous 
hairy within. Stamens longer than corolla-lobes, exsert ; filaments 
connate half-way up, linear, connate part densely villous, free part 
glabrous -2 in. long; anthers -1 to T5 in. long, dorsifixed, cells pro- 
minently septate. Ovary ovoid, surmounted by a subulate angular 
style, -3 in. long, black-gland-dotted below. Fruit a long acuminate 
pale brown capsule, up to 3 in. long, -25 in. in diam., glabrous. Seed 1, 
elongate, filling the capsule, embryo inverse, funicle very long. Willd. 
Sp. PL I. 1185 ; Eoem. & Schult. Syst. Yeg. IV. 511 ; Roxb. PI. Ind. 
III. 130 ; A. DO. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2, XVI. t. 9a, and Prod. VIII.' 
