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bright green, acute, deltoid at the base, 4-5 in. long, at first obscurely 
silky beneath ; stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Flowers solitary or 
3, crowded together on short axillary peduncles, with a pair of small 
persistent deltoid bracts at the tip. Calyx in. long, silky, coriaceous. 
Corolla j in. long, very silky. Drupe glabrous, globose, the size of a 
pea, containing 20-24 pyrenes in four radiating bundles. Helospora 
flavescens, Jack ; DO '. Prod. iv. 391. Guettarda ? peduncularis, Wall. 
Cat. 6222. 
Seychelles, common in all the islands from sea-level up to 3000 feet, Perville , 
152 ! Wright ! Horne ! Also Malay isles and peninsula. 
12. CRATERISPERMUM, Benth. 
Calyx-tube oblong ; limb campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla hypocra- 
teriform ; tube as long as the calyx ; teeth 5, lanceolate, induplicate- 
valvate. Stamens 5, inserted at the throat of the corolla ; filaments 
very short; anthers oblong, shorter than the corolla-limb. Ovary 2- 
celled ; ovules solitary in the cells, pendulous ; style long, clavate, bifid 
at the top. Fruit a pea-shaped berry, with usually a single seed, with 
fleshy albumen. — Glabrous erect shrubs, with oblong petioled leaves, 
the flowers small, in congested peduncled axillary cymes. Distrib. 
Species 5, the others Continental African. 
1. C. microdon, Baker. An erect tree 25-35 feet high, glabrous in 
all its parts, with slender terete branches. Leaves distinctly petioled, 
oblong, acute, cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous, green on both 
sides, 4-5 in. long. Flowers in congested cymes, on very short erecto- 
patent axillary peduncles ; bracts minute, deltoid-cuspidate ; pedicels 
none. Calyx a in. long ; campanulate limb as long as the oblong tube, 
with 5 small distant deltoid teeth. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; 
lobes lanceolate. Fruit white, ovoid, the size of a pea. 
Seychelles, in the woods of Mahe and Praslin. Endemic. Bois dotix. 
13. PLECTRONIA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx-tube globose or tur- 
binate ; teeth short, 4-5. Corolla hypocrateriform ; lobes 4-5, valvate, 
about as long as the tube. Ovary 2-3- celled, with a single ovule in 
each cell ; style filiform ; stigma capitate or bilobed. Fruit a 2-3- 
celled drupe with a bony pyrene in each cell. — Shrubs, with small 
flowers in axillary fascicles. Distrib. Tropics of Old World. 
Species 70. 
Umbels peduncled 1 . P. bibracteata. 
Umbels sessile. 
Leaves sessile 2. P. viburnoides. 
Leaves petioled. 
Leaves rounded at the base 3. P. celastroides. 
