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brous inside. Stamens shorter than the petals, filaments glabrous, lludi- 
mentary ovary ovoid, obtuse, pubescent. Fisk none. Female flowers not 
seen. Drupes ovoid or globular-ovoid, compressed, 1*25 in. long and 
*75 in. in diam.; pericarp leathery, densely rusty-tomentose ; mesocarp 
pulpy, rather copious ; endocarp thinly bony, smooth on both surfaces. 
Baillon in DO. Prod. XVII, 16; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 591; 
S. edule , Kurz, For. Flora Burmah I, 242. Ghailletia edulis , Wall. 
Cat. 9030 (“ indetermin. ”) Kurz in Andaman Report, App. 6. 
S. Andaman ; Kurz, King’s Collector.— Distrib. Burmah. 
Kurz himself (in Herb. Calcut.) reduced his species S. edule to 
S. Wallicliii Baill., and there is no doubt the reduction is right. 
19. Iodes, Blume. 
Climbing shrubs, rarely erect. Leaves opposite, or sub-alternate, 
petiolate, simple, penni-nerved. Inflorescence cymose, cymes axillary 
or extra-axillary ; lower peduncles often sterile, cirrose. Flowers dich- 
lamydeous, dioecious. Male fl. : Calyx minute, cup-shaped, 5-toothed. 
Corolla 5-merous, lobes valvate. Stamens hypogynous, equal in number 
to, and alternate with the lobes of the corolla; anthers basifixed, 
straight, 2-celled, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil rudimentary. 
Female fl. : Calyx as in the male. Corolla 5-parted, the segments united 
below. Staminodes 0. Ovary sub-sessile, 1-celled, with 2 collateral pen¬ 
dulous ovules ; stigma sessile, discoid. Drupe surrounded at the base 
by the persistent, but not accrescent calyx; stone 1-seeded. Seed pen¬ 
dulous, testa thin, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat, leafy; radicle supe¬ 
rior.— Distrib. Species about 8, natives of India, the Malayan Archipe¬ 
lago and tropical Africa. 
Flowers 4-merous ... ... ... 1 . I. reticulata. 
Flowers 5-merous. 
Calyx cupular with 5 minute teeth ... 2. I. velutina. 
Calyx deeply divided into 5 lanceolate lobes. 
Leaves ovate to rotund, pubescence ru¬ 
fous 
3. J. ovalis. 
Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate; 
pubescence cinereous ... ... 4. I. oblong a. 
1. Iodes reticulata, King, n. sp. A woody creeper 20 or 30 feet 
long ; young branches slender, striate, with a broad line of tomentum 
on one side, changing sides at the nodes. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ellip¬ 
tic or broadly ovate, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly acuminate, 
narrowed slightly to the rounded or sub-emarginate base ; both surfaces 
minutely but boldly reticulate, the upper glabrous, the lower with long 
soft hairs especially on the midrib and nerves; main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, 
