XXVI. G0NYSTYLACE2E. 
Gony stylus.] 
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These plants have been placed in the Apetalce, but have of late been 
considered to be allied to Tiliacece. The corolla consists of very narrow 
linear organs, split at the top and often to near the base, into 2 or 3 lobes, 
these were formerly considered to be scales, but appear from position and 
texture to be really petals. 
Order XXVII. LINEyE. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate simple entire or 
serrate. Inflorescence various. Flowers regular bisexual. Sepals 
5 or 6 free or connate at base imbricate. Petals as many imbricate 
01 contort, hypogynous. Stamens 4 to 5 or 10 to 12; filaments 
united at the base into a ring filiform; anthers versatile. Glands 
5 or o. Ovary entire 3- to 5-celled; styles 3 to 5 free or connate; 
ovules 1 or 2 inserted in the inner angle of cells, anatropous. Stigma 
terminal. Fruit a drupe or capsule. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell. 
Genera 14, species about 145, whole world (King, Journ. As. Soc 
Beng. lxii. (2), 189). 
Climbing shrubs. 
Racemes very short; fruit drupaceous 
Racemes elongate; fruit capsular 
Trees. 
Petals imbricate; fruit a drupe . 
Petals contort; fruit capsular 
1. Roucheria 
2. Sarcotheca 
3. Erythroxylon 
4. IXONANTHES 
1. ROUCHERIA, Planch. 
Lianes with revolute woody tendrils. Leaves alternate, entire 
or serrate. Flowers in axillary sub-sessile spikes fascicled yellow. 
Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens 10, all fertile, connate into a tube 
below. Ovary 3- to 5-celled; styles 3 to 5. Drupe small red 
fleshy. Stone 3- to 6-angled. Species 3 or 4, 1 or 2 Malayan 
2 from Guiana. # 
(1) R. Griflithiana Planch, in Hook, Joutn. Bot. vi 14.3 * vii <27 * 
Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 414. 0 /j 
Big climber 3 in. through. Bark white. Leaves lanceolate 
to elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate crenate-serrate base 
cuneate deep green coriaceous; nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 3 to 5 in. long, 
i‘2 in. wide; petioles *35 to 5 in. long. Flowers *35 in. in clusters 
of 5 to 8. Petals narrowly oblong, thin. Drupe red *25 in. long, 
oblong. Hob. Common in low country, Singapore, Malacca to Perak 
and Penang. Disirib. Borneo. Native names : Ipoh akar putih • 
Akar Bij!; Garam-Garam; Akar Kait putih; Akar Musiang : 
Bhoi (Sakai). Use: in the dart-poison of the Sakais. Flowers 
fragrant. 
2. SARCOTHECA, Bl. 
Shrubby climbers. Leaves alternate, entire. Racemes or 
panicles axillary or terminal, elongate. Flowers pedicelled. Sepals 
