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1895.] Gf. King —Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
or tubular. Ovary short, 2- 4-celled ; style filiform, usually exceeding 
the staminal tube; stigma capitate or cylindric, usually with a ring at 
its base ; ovules usually one in each cell. Capsule sub-globose, often 
beaked, thickly coriaceous, 2- 4-celled. Seeds often enclosed in an 
imperfect aril; cotyledons usually peltate.— Distrib. An Indo-Malayan 
genus of about 22 species. 
Inflorescence only a few inches long , much shorter 
than the leaves , spike-like , few-flowered; fruit 
beaked. 
Flowers ’5 in. long, narrowly cylindrical 
in bud ... ... ... 1-0. spicatus. 
Flowers *9 in. long, widely cylindrical in 
bud ... ... ... 2. 0. pauciflorus. 
Inflorescence extra-axillary , spike-like , a foot long 
or upwards , including the peduncle. 
Flowers confined to the terminal two 
inches of the inflorescence, the pedun¬ 
cles very much longer ; flowers '5 or *6 
in. long, 4-merous, cylind.ic in bud; 
fruit beaked ... ... ... 3. 0. Kunstleri. 
Flowers on short lateral branches scattered 
along the rachis of the inflorescence. 
Flowers 75 to *1 in. long, 4- or 5- 
merous, clavate in bud; fruit beaked 
Flowers 1*25 to 1*5 in. long, cylin¬ 
dric in bud; petals 7 to 9; fruit 
not beaked 
Flowers on distant lateral glomeruli 1*25 
to 1‘5 in. long; petals 5; fruit sub- 
globular, not beaked 
Inflorescence extra-axillary , paniculate. 
Young shoots, under surfaces of leaves, 
petioles, and inflorescence pubescent or 
tomentose. 
Panicles as long as the leaves ; flowers 
•25 in. long; petals 4, anthers much 
exserted from staminal tube 
Panicles about half as long as the 
leaves; flowers "45 in. long; anthers 
included in staminal tube 
Rachises of leaves and both surfaces of 
leaflets minutely pubescent; panicles 
J. ii 4 
4. G. penduliflorus . 
5. C. rubiginosus. 
6. C. princeps. 
7. C. glomeratus. 
8. C. erythrocarpus. 
