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6. Bassia, Linn. 
Trees with milky juice. Leaves coriaceous or chartaceous, often 
clustered at the ends of the branehlets ; stipules caducous. Flowers 
fascicled, in the axils of the leaves or of the scars of fallen leaves, 
pedicellate, pedicels frequently reflexed. Calyx-lobes 4, the 2 outer 
usually valvate, enclosing the 2 inner imbricate. Corolla campanulate ; 
tube broad ; lobes 6 to 12, contorted in bud, erect in flower, imbricate. 
Stamens twice the number of the corolla-lobes or more, inserted in one 
or more rows on the corolla-tube ; filaments usually short ; anthers 
generally lanceolate, laterally or extrorsely dehiscing ; connective 
generally produced in an acumen ; staminodes none. Ovary villous, 
4-12- (usually 6-8-) -celled ; style linear, subulate, more or less elongate. 
Fruit a globose or oblong or ovoid berry, few-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, 
usually compressed ; testa crustaeeous, shining ; hilum oblong or linear, 
conspicuous ; albumen none ; cotyledons thick, fleshy ; radicle small. — 
Distrib. About 40 species, found in India, Ceylon, the Malay Penin- 
sula, and Malay Archipelago. 
In several of the species the fruit is unknown, and some of these may prove, when 
it becomes available, to belong to Payena, which is hardly separable except by the 
important character of having albuminous seeds and leafy cotyledons. 
We have not followed Baillon and Engler in changing the name of this genus to 
Jllipe, as we agree in the opinions expressed by Drs. Trimen (“ Flora of Ceylon ”) and 
Cooke (“Flora of Bombay”) that the word lllipe was not intended by Konig to be 
employed as the name of a genus, but was merely mentioned as being the vernacular 
name employed by the natives of Malabar for one of the species. 
Flower-buds large, nearly -75 in. long, conical ; intramarginal 
nerve of leaves prominent ; pedicels thick, 1-5 to 2 in. long 
Flower-buds moderately large, about -4 in. long, globose ; intra- 
marginal nerve present ; pedicels short, about -4 in. long : — 
Intramarginal nerve conspicuous ; leaves 10 to 14 in. long . . 
Intramarginal nerve faint ; leaves 4 to 6 in. long 
Flower-buds moderately large, -4 in. long or rather less, conical : — 
Leaves large, over 6 in. long ; main-nerves prominent : — 
Pedicels over 1 in. long; leaves coriaceous, silky-pubescent 
beneath ; main-nerves straight, intramarginal nerve present ; 
connective of anthers penicillate 
Pedicels under -6 in. long ; leaves chartaceous, sparsely 
pubescent beneath ; main-nerves curved, no intramarginal 
nerve ; connective of anthers not penicillate 
Leaves moderate-sized, under 6 in. long ; main-nerves not 
prominent . . 
Flower-buds small, under -3 in. long, usually conical, generally 
in many-flowered fascicles : — 
Pedicels usually under o in. long : — 
Pedicels and flower-buds densely tawny-pubescent ; connec- 
tive of anthers produced in a long point 
1. B. aristulata. 
2. B. Kingiana. 
3. B. Kunstleri. 
4. B. penicillata. 
5. B. malaccensis. 
6. B. Curtisii. 
7. B. laurifolia. 
