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DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 





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' "G. UMBELLATA," HooTc. f. wi5., from Penaug, appears distinct; but the specimeM 

 are not sufficiently perfect for determination. . V ■ 



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3. TETRAMERISTA, Miq. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves very large, coriaceous, entire. Flowers in axillary 

 racemes, with large foliaceous bracts. Sepals 4, imbricate, persistent; 

 2 outer ones larger. Petals 4, persistent. Stamens 4 ; filaments dilateaat 

 the base; anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 4- angled, 4-cellea, 

 style entire. Fruit a globose 4-seeded coriaceous berry, — Distrib. ^3r 

 layan Peninsula and Islands. Species 1-2. ^ 



1. T- grlabra, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. Suppl 534; var. sagittata; leav^^ 



at the base. Ancistrocladus ? sagittatus, Wall. Cat 1055. ^ 



sagittate 



Malacca, Low. .-. • p t h re- 



Leaves obovate, rounded at the apex. * Sepals in two series, lanceolate. •" ^^i 

 eembling the sepals, but rather smaller. Filaments filiform above. Style single, cen 

 — r. glabra is a Sumatran plant, entered as Indian on account of some ^P^^™^°^ j 

 Herb. Kew., collected by Heifer, either in " Tenasserim or the Andaman Islands, a 

 by Wallich at Sincapore, without flowers, but apparently belonging either to this spe 

 or to an allied one, differing in the sagittate base of the leaves. . '" > 



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. Glabrous shrubs.;, Zeave5 alternate, simple, shining, coriaceous, ^.^^^ j^J] 

 with ciliate deciduous stipules. Flower^s rose or white, in terminal or i 

 opposed racemes, bracteate. Sejxils 5, imbricate, persistent or g^^^^^ - 

 Fttalsb, longer than sepals, imbricate. Disk small, conical ^^^^-^^ 

 inserted at the base of the disk, with alternate staminodes ; anthers ^P^^^^ 

 by terminal pores. Ovary semi-5-celled, elongate, viscid; style 1, ^^^^j^ 

 entire ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit a berry of 5 Py^^^^^'-.„ / 

 l-2^seeded. /^ee</5 penduloiis with a fleshy albumen,— Disteib. bpecie^^ 



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natives of the Malayan Archipelago. 



1. E. leucocarpa, Jack in Mai. Misc. No. v. p. 16 ; leaves J^y-^ Jf ^ 

 very gradually narrowed into the petiole very beautifully serrulate on _ 

 thickened margin, flowers in rather small terminal branched racein^s, 

 snow-white. ^ Uoxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey, ii 303; Planch, m noo\ 

 PL viii t. 711. T 1 ao 



Mounts Gerai and Ophir, alt. 3000 ft., in Malacca, Lolb.—'Di^'^^' ^^^ , 

 Archipelago. - t. /: run'^^ 



An erect shrub, 4-5 ft. Leaves narrowly elliptic, 4 in. by U in., with fine ^^^ 

 nearly parallel veins running from the midrib to the thickened margin ; etip ^ ^^^^ 

 niinate, ciliate, deciduous. Sepals ovate, thick, ciliate-serrate. Ptitals ^^.^^^pgiing. 



aments very short. Ovary elongate, acute; style, r^ 



as the sepals, reflexed. FHaments very short. 



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£erry crowned by the persistent style, 5-seeded. " S^ -^^ 



2. E. minor, Jack in Mai. Misc. No. v. p. 18; leaves^ '^^V'^^&rv^red. 

 late, obtuse, mucronate obscurely serrulate, racemes simple, ^%J'. 



Jioxb. FL hid. ed. Carey, ii. 304. ♦ ,, \,:i^^^r' 





Singapore and Penang.— Distrib. Malayan Archipelago. • . ; ' ns n^^®*^ 

 A small shrub. Leaves much smaller than in F. leucocarpa, ^^^**^®°S ^^Z* ovata- 

 into the petiole, obscurely veined ; stipdes linear, ciliate, ueciduous. oep 

 ciliate, filaments short. Ovary ovate, acute. JBerry 5-seededL 





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