Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula: Calyciflor� (Nos. 9 to 13 of the Series)
Trees or (usually scandent) shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate lea?ets 5, rarely 3 or more, quite entire. Panicles axillary and terminal, branched. Flowers small. Sepals 5, deciduous or persistent and clasp ing the pedicel of the capsule but not accrescent, imbricate. Petals 5, linear or slightly dilated upwards. Stamens 10, 5 shorter and sometimes without anthers. Ovary l, densely pubescent, style slender, stigma capitellate. Capsule oblique, stipi'tate, in?ated, broader upwards valves glabrous or pubescent within. Seeds arillate, testa shining, albumen 0; cotyledons amygdaloid. - distrib. Species about 80, all tropical.
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