Scolopia.] 
XVII. FLACOURTlACEiE. 
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Order XVII. FLACOURTIACE/E. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate usually coriaceous. Flowers 
small, usually unisexual in cymes, fascicles or racemes. Sepals 
free, connate, 5 to 8. Petals 5, often absent. Stamens 5 to 8 or 
more. Ovary superior; styles free or connate. Disc usually 
none. Fruit baccate or capsular. Tropics. 
Flowers bisexual; petals 4 to 6. 
Stamens numerous; flowers baccate 
Stamens 5 or 6 ; fruit capsule .... 
Flowers unisexual. 
Petals o, disc present; fruit baccate 
Petals 5 to 8; fruit hard baccate; stamens free . 
Sepals free 5 ; petals 5; stamens 5 to 8 . 
Sepals free 4; petals 8 ; stamens 20 to 30 
Sepals connate in a cup; stamens free 20 to 25 . 
Sepals connate in a spathe-like limb ; stamens 
free 8 . . . ■ • 
Sepals connate in a tube; stamens connate in 
a column ...... 
1 . SCOLOPIA, Schreb. 
Spiny or unarmed small tree. Leaves alternate crenulate or 
entire. Flowers small, bisexual in axillary racemes. Sepals 4 to 6 
imbricate. Petals 4 to 6 imbricate. Stamens many with a row 
of glands outside them ; anthers ovoid, the connective produced 
into an appendage. Ovary i-celled; style 1 erect. Stigma entire 
or lobed. Ovules few. Berry 2- to 4-seeded. Species about 15, 
tropics of Africa, Asia and Australia. 
Racemes 3 to 4 in. long, terminal and axillary . . (1) S. rhinanthera 
Racemes 1 in. or less, all axillary . . . , (2) S. Roxburghii 
(1) S. rhinanthera Clos. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, viii. p. 252; 
Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 190; King. l.c. 114. Phoberos rhinanthera 
Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 189, /. 39. 
Bush or tree, nearly glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves 
coriaceous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate acuminate, base rounded, 
obscurely crenate-dentate; nerves 7 pairs fine, 3*5 to 5 in. long, 
1*75 to 2*5 in. wide; petioles *85 in. long, biglandular at the apex. 
Racemes axillary and terminal, 3 to 4 in. long pubescent. Flowers 
about 20, *3 in. across; pedicels short. Sepals 4, ovate-lanceolate 
tomentose outside. Petals 4, larger round, tomentose on edges 
and midrib. Stamens indefinite; anthers very small; appendages 
lanceolate glabrous. Stigma entire. Fruit baccate black. Seeds 
2 to 6. Hab. Usually on sea-shores, but sometimes inland. Singa¬ 
pore, Serangoon river bank. Malacca. Selangor, Port Swettenham 
1. Scolopia 
2. Erythrospermum 
3. Flacourtia 
4. Hydnocarpus 
5. Taraktogenos 
6. Pangium 
7. SCAPHOCALYX 
8. Ryparosa 
