XII. PITTOSPOREjE. 
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Piliosporum.] 
fragrant. Sepals lanceolate pubescent. Petals linear, tips recurved, 
pubescent. Ovary cylindric, tomentose; style excentric. Stigma 
bilobed. Capsule orange coloured. Seed black, aril red. Hab. 
Dry gravelly spots usually near the sea. Common. Singapore, 
Johor, Pahang, Malacca, Bindings, Penang, Lankawi isles, Kelantan, 
Pulau Adang. Distrib. Carimon isles, Burma to Malay Archi¬ 
pelago and Australia. Native names : Suroras; Giramong; Chem- 
purei Ikan; Trang Nok; Bunga Sapong; Pulai Puak. 
(2) P. reticosum Ridl. 
A small tree 10 to 15 ft. tall, bark pale. Leaves opposite, rigid 
sub-coriaceous glabrous lanceolate, pale beneath; nerves impressed 
above, strongly reticulate above and beneath, 2 in. long, 1-25 in. 
wide; petioles pubescent 'i in. long, ultimately glabrous. Fruit 
oval *25 in. long on a slender peduncle 1*5 in. long. Stigma bilobed, 
lobes globose. Hab. Pahang in thickets on the Padang at 5000 
to 6000 ft. altitude (Robinson, Ridley). 
No flowers of this plant have been seen, but in its stiff reticulate leaves it is 
quite distinct from any species known. 
Order XIII. POLYGALACEJE. 
Herbs, erect or scandent shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate 
rarely whorled, reduced to scales or 0, simple entire. Stipules o. 
Flowers irregular bisexual 3 bracteate. Sepals 5 unequal, 2 inner 
often petaloid. Petals 5 or 3 unequal, inferior usually keel-shaped 
(keel). Stamens 8 (rarely 4 or 5) hypogynous, filaments united, rarely 
free; anthers opening by terminal pores (rarely by slits). Ovary free 
1- to 3-celled; style curved. Stigma capitate. Ovules 1 or more 
in each cell, anatropous. Fruit 2-celled, 2-seeded, loculicidally 
dehiscent or indehiscent, i-seeded or of 3 indehiscent carpels. 
Seed strophiolate albuminous. Species 500, the whole world 
except New Zealand. 
Herbs or rarely erect shrubs. Capsule dehiscent. 
Stamens 8, 2 interior sepals petaloid. . . 1. Polygala 
Stamens 4 to 5, leafy annuals . . . .2. Salomonia 
Stamens 4 to 5, leafless parasites . . -3- Epirhizanthes 
Climbing shrub; fruit a 1-celled, indehiscent 
samara ....... 4. Securidaca 
Erect trees or shrubs. 
Stamens 5 united; fruit of 3 samaras . . 5. Trigoniastrum 
Stamens 8 distinct; fruit a drupe or berry . 6 . Xanthophyllum 
1. POLYGALA, L. 
Herbs or rarely shrubs. Sepals persistent, inner 2 larger, 
petaloid. Petals 3, united at base with the staminal sheath, the 
lower one keel-shaped and often crested (the keel). Stamens 8; 
filaments united for the lower half into a split sheath. Ovary 
