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XXX. BALSAMINACEA2. 
[Hydrocera. 
2 . HYDROCERA, Bl. 
Erect glabrous herbs. Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate. 
Flowers in short axillary i- to 3-flowered racemes. Sepals 5, 
imbricate coloured, 2 outer flat, posticous shortly spurred. Petals 5, 
anticous (outer) large, concave. Stamens 5 > filaments short; 
anthers cohering. Ovary 5-celled; ovules 2 to 3 in each cell. 
Stigmas 5, sessile. Drupe baccate, 5-celled ; cells i-seeded. Seeds 
curved, corrugate. Species 1. 
(1) H. angustifolia Bl. Bijdr. 241; Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 483. 
Erect marsh plant. Stem angled. Leaves narrowed to both 
ends, serrate, glaucous beneath, 1-5 to 6 in. long, '2 to 3 in. wide. 
Flowers 1 in. across, crimson pink with yellow and white markings; 
spur short, curved. Drupe red juicy, globose, 75 in. through. 
Hab. Rice-fields in or near shallow water; local, but sometimes 
abundant. Malacca (Griffith). Pahang, along Pahang River. 
Selangor, Telok Gadong; Port Swettenham (Burkill). Penang, 
Pulau Betong; Balik Pulau. Kelantan, near Kota Bliaru; Perlis, 
Kanga. 
var. latifolia Ridl. / H. triflora, Wight and Arnott, Prodr. i. 14°. 
Leaves 1*5 in. wide. Hab. Rare. Malacca (Griffith). Distrib. 
India, the broad-leaved variety; Cochin-China, Siam and Java, 
the narrow-leaved one. Native names: Inai Paya; Tampinah. 
Order XXXI. RUTACE/E. 
Trees or shrubs (rarely herbs) glandular-resinous. Leaves 
usually imparipinnate opposite or alternate exstipulate. Flowers 
in axillary or terminal cymes or panicles bisexual, regular. Calyx 
4- to 5-lobed. Petals 4- to 5-valvate or imbricate. Stamens 4 or 5, 
8 or 10, rarely more (in Citrus) ; filaments free, hypogynous; anthers 
2-celled opening inwards. Disc within stamens lobed, sometimes 
cylindric. Ovary of 4 or 5 connate or free carpels; ovules usually 
2 in a cell; styles as many, free or united. Stigmas terminal. 
Fruit a capsule, berry or drupe, or of x to 4 cocci. Seeds usually 
solitary in the cells, albumen fleshy or o. Species about 700, 
whole world [King, Journ. ris. Soc. Beng. lxii. (2), p. 205). 
Triphasia trifoliolata DC. Prod. 1536. The lime-berry, a dwarf 
spiny shrub with flowers ‘5 in. long and small red berries, pro¬ 
bably a native of China, is often cultivated as a hedge plant or 
for its fruit used, in preserves or for making orange brandy. 
Fruit of dehiscent cocci; ovaries partly united. 
Leaves opposite ; trees or shrubs not thorny. 
Stamens 4 or 5. 
Seed globose . . . . . .1. Evodia 
Seed flat, winged . . . . . * 2 . Terminthodia 
