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oblong, obtuse, testa very faintly wrinkled. Lamk 111. t. 184 ; Wall. 
Cat. 4398; W. & A. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. II. 193, t. 26; Wight 
111. t. 167, and Ie. t. 601 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. X. 180 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. PI. 170 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 633 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. 
Ind. IV. 133; Trimen FI. Ceyl. III. 191. Cooke Bomb. FI. II. 197; 
Prain Beng. Plants 711. H. javanica, Blume Bijdr. 725. Nama 
zeylanica, Linn. Sp. PI. 226 ; Boxb. FI. Ind. II. 73. “ Tsjeru Vallel,” 
Bheede Hort. Mai. X. t. 28. 
Peeak : Wray 2571, 3336; Scortechini ; Biclley 2906 ; King's Col- 
lector 391, 2577. — Disteib. Throughout India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, 
Java, Malaya, China, the Philippines; also in Australia, tropical Africa 
and America, in wet places and rice-fields. 
Order LXXX. BOKAGINEiE. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, often conspicuously hispid or scabrous. 
Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite, ex-stipulate, usually entire, 
rarely in verticils. Flowers usually in scorpioid dichotomous cymes, 
sometimes trichotomously paniculate, rarely solitary and axillary, 
bracteate or not, hermaphrodite. Calyx inferior, 5-lobed (rarely 6- to 
8-lobed), the lobes imbricate, rarely valvate, usually persistent in fruit. 
Corolla gamopetalous, of various forms, often with scales in the throat ; 
the limb 5-lobed (rarely 4- to 6-lobed), the lobes imbricate, rarely 
twisted. Stamens as many as the lobes and alternate with them, 
inserted on the tube ; anthers ovate to linear, introrse ; filaments 
slender, often dilated at the base. Disk under the ovary or obsolete. 
Ovary superior, sessile, cells 2 with 2 ovules in each, or 4 with 1 ovule 
in each ; style terminal or from the depression between the lobes of the 
ovary, long or short ; stigma entire and capitate or 2-lobed, the style 
rarely twice bifid ; ovules sub-erect from the basal angle of the cell. 
Fruit drupaceous with a hard 2- to 4-celled endocarp or dividing into 
2 or 4 nutlets with thin or fleshy walls. Seeds erect or oblique, with 
membranous testa and fleshy albumen or ex-albuminous ; embryo 
curved or straight, radicle superior. — Disteib. Universal. Species 
about 1,500. 
Styles twice partite ; drupe 4-1-seeded ; trees or shrubs ; calyx 
enlarging in fruit .. .. .. .. .. 1 . Ooedia. 
Styles simple or only l)i-partite ; rarely ( Coldenia ) 2 or more and 
distinct ; drupe including two 2-seeded or four 1-seeded pyrenes ; 
calyx only slightly or not at all enlarged in fruit : — * 
Styles depressed-conical at the apex or with a horizontal ring 
below or at the stigmas : — • 
