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IX. 482. Sebestena officinalis, Gaertn. Fruet. I. 364, t. 76. Eliretia 
glabra, Eoth Nov. Spec. 127 ; DC. Prod. IX. 510. Bcurreria glabra, 
G. Don Gen. Syst. 390. 
Malacca and Singapore : probably introduced. — Distrib. Tropics 
of the Old World. 
3. Coedia Griffithii, Clarke in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. IY. 139 (1883). 
A small tree ; young branches about as thick as a crow-quill, puberulous, 
pale and angled when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; ovate-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, the base slightly cuneate ; both surfaces brown 
when dry (the lower the paler), minutely reticulate, glabrous ; main- 
nerves 3 or 4 pairs, curved, ascending ; length 1'5 to 3 '5 in., breadth 
1 to l - 75 in. ; petioles -65 to 1-25 in. Cymes slender, 2-5 to 4 in. long 
(including their peduncles), dichotomous, lax, few-flowered, puberu- 
lous. Flowers '4 in. long, almost sessile. Calyx ‘25 in. long, funnel- 
shaped ; the mouth wide, oblique, and with 5 irregular short teeth. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, much longer than the calyx ; the limb longer 
than the tube, deeply divided into 5 narrowly elliptic reflexed lobes. 
Stamens 5, attached to the throat of the tube ; anthers oblong, ex- 
serted ; filaments unequal in length, flattened below. Ovary obovoid, 
smooth, 4-eelled, ovules solitary in each cell ; style thin and cylindric 
above, swollen in its lower half, exserted. 
Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 5997 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1162 ; Ridley 4561. 
Selangor : Ridley 7373. Kedah : King’s Collector 1742. 
2. Tournefortia, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes almost herbs, and often sub-scandent. 
Leaves alternate, entire. Cymes scorpioid, dichotomous, usually ter- 
minal, rarely lateral or extra-axillary. Floivers small, numerous, 
crowded, sessile or on short pedicels, ebracteate. Calyx deeply 4- or 
5-partite, the segments ovate or lanceolate. Corolla white or greenish ; 
the tube cylindric, naked in the throat ; the lobes of the limb 5 or 4, 
small, spreading. Stamens 5 or 4, included in the tube ; anthers 
oblong-ovate or lanceolate, apiculate or not ; filaments short. Ovary 
4-celled ; style terminal, short, 2-lobed (in the Indo-Malayan species) ; 
ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous from the upper inner part of the cell. 
Drupe small, ovoid, slightly fleshy or leathery, indistinctly separating 
into two 2-seeded or into four 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds straight or 
curved, pendulous, albuminous ; embryo straight or curved. — Distrib. 
About 130 species, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 
Tournefortia Wallichii, DC. Prod. IX. 527 (1845). A climber, 10 
to 30 feet long ; young branches terete, twice as thick as a crow’s-quill, 
minutely rusty-puberulous, becoming glabrous. Leaves thickly mem- 
