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SIMAitUBEJS. 
1. SOULAMEA, Lam. 
Flowers polygamo-dioicous. Calyx minute; sepals 3, imbricated, 
deltoid. Petals 3, Ungulate. Disk 3-lobed, plate-shaped. Stamens 
6, inserted under the disk ; filaments naked, subulate. Ovary 2-3- 
celled; ovules solitary in the cells; styles adnate to the top. of the 
carpels, short, reflexed. Fruit indehiscent, with a broad wing to each 
carpel. — Trees with alternate entire leaves and minute flowers in 
axillary racemes. Distrib. One other species, which is Malayan 
and Polynesian. 
1. S. terminalioid.es, Bafcer. An erect tree 20-25 feet high, with 
the leaves and branchlets at first brown-silky, but soon becoming 
glabrous. Leaves oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, 4-6 in. long, deltoid 
at the base, with numerous fine parallel veins ; petioles 2-3 in. 
Flowers in copious short-peduncled silky axillary racemes, 2-3 in. 
long, on pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx inch, densely brown- 
silky. Petals reflexed when expanded, little longer than the sepals. 
Stamens included. Fruit under an inch long, brown, glabrous, 
deeply emarginate, the coriaceous rounded wings quite as broad as 
the cells. 
Seychelles, common in poor soil in the island of Mahe, Wright , 109 ! Horne , 440 ! 
Bark intensely bitter. Endemic. Bois des montagnes petit qualite. 
2. SUIil AN A, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, persistent, joined at the very 
base, imbricate. Petals 5, oblong-unguiculate, not longer than calyx. 
Stamens 10, hypogynous, included. Carpels 5, free, hairy ; ovules 2, 
collateral, basal ; styles filiform, distinct, issuing from the base of 
carpel on the inner side, hooked at the stigmatose tip. Fruit dry, 
indehiscent, pilose, included in the calyx, attached to the torus by a 
narrow base. A single species. 
1. S. maritima, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 291. A much-branched 
shrub, 5-10 feet, with finely downy branches and leaves. Leaves 
oblanceolate, an inch long, thick, alternate, crowded. Flowers few, 
in corymbs at the end of the branches, half-hidden by leaves. Sepals 
lanceolate, coriaceous, \ inch long. Petals bright yellow. Cocci 
obovoid, hard, pilose, inch thick. 
Mauritius, Rodriguez, Seychelles, frequent on the shores. Flat Island, 
Horne ! Cosmopolitan within the tropics. Littoral. Rare in Continental Africa. 
Order XXIII. OCHNACEiE. 
Flowers, regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, free imbricate. Petals 
5, free, broad, deciduous, imbricate. Stamens hypogynous, indefinite ; 
filaments free, filiform ; anthers 2-celled, basifixed. Ovary deeply 
lobed ; ovules 1 or many in a cell; styles united; stigmas capitate. 
Torus thickened after flowering. Fruit variable, dry or drupaceous. 
