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on the branches of a simple or compound panicle, sessile or shortly 
pedicellate ; bracteoles minute. Calyx-lobes 5, rounded, sub-equal, 
much imbricate. Corolla broadly campanulate ; tube short ; lobes 5, 
rounded, entire, much imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of 
the corolla and opposite to its lobes ; filaments very short ; anthers 
obtuse, laterally or extrorsely dehiscing. Staminodes 5, small, subulate 
or rounded. Ovary glabrous, 1-2-celled; style short ; stigma somewhat 
lobed, capitate. Fruit an ellipsoid berry, 1-2-seeded ; pericarp 
coriaceous, scarcely thick. Seeds 1-2 ; testa crustaeeous ; hilum nearly 
basal; albumen none; embryo fleshy. — Distbib. Species 3, in North- 
East India, Burma, Malaya and S. China. 
Saecospeeha paniculatum, Stapf & King in Hook. f. Ic. Plant, 
t. 2690 (1901). A tree, reaching 50 to 70 feet in height and 18 to 20 in. in 
diam. ; branchlets thick, dark brown, glabrous. Leaves chartaceous j 
sub-opposite, elliptic-oblong, bluntly acuminate at apex, acute or rounded 
or often rhomboid at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, nearly black 
when dry ; 4 to 8 - 5 in. long, l - 5 to 3 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main- 
Derves 7-8 pairs, slender, distant, often nearly 1 in. apart, starting at 
an angle of about 60° with the midrib and at once curving upwards to 
and along the margin ; secondary nerves many and, like the transverse 
reticulations, inconspicuous ; glandular pits in the axils of most of the 
main-nerves; petiole - 5 to '7 in. long, channelled above and with two 
minute rounded auricles below the blade. Floivers solitary or clustered 
on the branches of a leafy compound panicle of racemes, the racemes 
often 2 in. long ; bracteoles minute, triangular ; pedicels rarely reaching 
■05 in. in length, stout ; buds globose. Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate, 
rounded, usually 3 larger with somewhat scarious margins, 2 smaller 
thicker and slightly acute, shortly campanulate. Corolla-lobes 5, 
closely imbricate, rounded, glabrous, -05 in. long, the margins revolute ; 
tube as long as lobes. Stamens 5, inserted on the top of the tube ; 
filaments very short ; anthers ovate, rounded, introrse, or laterally 
dehiscing. Staminodes alternating with the stamens, minute, nearly 
orbicular, crenulate. Ovary conical, furrowed ; style very short, thick, 
stigma capitate, minutely 2-4-lobed. Fruit drupaceous, ellipsoid, 
seeds, 1-2. Bracea paniculata, King in Journ. As. Soe. Beng. 
LXIV. ii. 101. 
Peeak: Scortechini ; King's Collector 7970, 8086, 10284, 10554, 
10672, 10835 ; among large bamboos, on river-banks, or in mixed 
forest. 
3. Sideroxylon, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes armed, with milky juice. Leaves 
coriaceous or thinner, entire, alternate ; stipules none. Flotvers 
