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CXXVI. OPILIACEJi. 
f Champereia. 
1 . CHAMPEREIA, Griff. 
Glabrous shrubs or small trees. Leaves fleshy membranous. 
Flowers in panicles of small cymes usually bisexual, but males 
occur; sepals 5. Stamens 5. Disc hypogynous, annular or lobed. 
Ovary immersed in disc. Stigma sessile. Drupe ellipsoid, blunt. 
Species 1 or perhaps 2 or 3, Burma and Malaya. 
(1) C. Griflithii Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 236; Gamble, Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. lxxv. ii. 277. 
A pale-barked shrub about 6 ft. tall. Leaves ovate-oblong 
or lanceolate; nerves 5 to 6 pairs; 3 to 4 in. long, 75 to 3 in. wide. 
Panicles slender lax, 6 in. long or less, shorter in fruit. Flowers 
•1 in. wide, pale green, on pedicels *2 in. long, all scattered and 
few. Drupe orange-yellow, pulpy, *5 in. long. Hab. Common in 
open woods, Singapore, Changi; Chan Chu Kang. Johor, Bukit 
Sialu. Malacca (Griffith). Pahang, Pekan. Selangor, Klang Gates; 
Sungei Buluh. Dindings, Lumut. Perak, Ulu Kerling (Kunstler); 
Penang, Waterfall; Telok Bahang (Curtis). Lankawi (Haniff). 
Dislrib. Burma, Andamans, Malay isles to Formosa. Native name : 
Buah Chemperai. 
2 . CANSJERA, Jussieu. 
Climbing shrubs. Leaves few-nerved. Flowers in dense axil¬ 
lary spikes; perianth tubular, 4- to 5-lobed. Stamens as many 
and opposite; anthers small, oblong. Staminodes (disc lobes) 
4 to 5, alternate ovoid. Ovary ovoid-conic; style cylindric; 
stigma 4-lobed. Fruit oblong or globose. Species 4 or 5, all 
closely allied, India, Cambodia, Malaya. 
(1) C. zizyphifolia Griff. Notulce, iv. 360, t. 537, Fig. 1. 
Leaves rather fleshy ovate, base round; nerves 2 from near 
base and three pairs from midrib; 3 in. long, 1-5 in. wide; petioles 
•1 in. long. Spikes -5 in. long, glabrous. Flowers very small. 
Drupes globose, red. Hab. Rare, Malacca, Woods near Pringgit 
(Griffith). Distrib. Borneo. 
This species is referred by most authors to C. Rheedii , but that has woolly 
spikes and large pubescent flowers. 
3 . LEPIONURUS, Blume. 
Shrubs. Inflorescence spicate axillary. Bracts large caducous. 
Flowers separate or clustered; perianth urceolate, 4-lobed. 
Stamens 4. Disc fleshy yellow lining the tube. Ovary oblong 
conic. Stigma 4-lobed. Drupe red. Species 2, Asiatic. 
Spikes dense ; bracts ovate sub-acute . . . (1) L. sylvestris 
Spikes lax ; flowers distinct ; bracts ovate cuspidate. (2) L. oblongifolius 
(1) L. sylvestris Bl. Bijdr. 1148; King, Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. lxiv. ii. 105. 
Shrub about 2 ft. tall. Leaves oblong to elliptic shortly 
