Timonius. | LXXV. RUDIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 127 
cupular, persistent. Corolla pubescent, coriaceous, funnel-shaped, glabrous 
within; lobes 4-5 (-10), valvate or slightly overlapping in bud. Anthers sub- 
sessile in the throat, linear. Disk hispid. Ovary 5-10-celled; style short, 
stout, hairy, branches 4-12, more or less combined ; ovules solitary, pendulous 
in each cell, funicle thickened. Drupe ellipsoid, ovoid or globose; pyrenes 
4-10, slender, erect or radiating outwards, or superposed. Seeds cylindric, testa 
membranous, albumen scanty or 0; embryo slender.—DIstR1B. Species about 
20, tropical Asiatic and Oceanic. 
1. T. Jambosella, Thw. Enum. 153; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acumi- 
nate minutely silky on the nerves beneath, i$ solitary long-peduncled. Bedd. 
Ie. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 190. T. flavescens, Baker Fl. Maurit. 144. Nelitris Jam- 
bosella, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 134, t. 29, excl. syn. Heliospora flavescens, Jack in- 
Trans. Linn. Soc, xiv. 197, t. 4, f. 9; DC. Prodr. iv. 391. Eupyrena glabra, 
W. & A. Prodr. 423. Bobea glabra, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk, Arch, ii. 211. 
Polyphragma flavescens, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 58. Guettarda ? peduncularis, Wall. 
Cat. 6222; Don Gen, Syst. iii. 551. G. Brunonis and G. missiones, Wall. 
Cat, 6220, 6221. 
AxDAMAN Israxps, Maray PrwiwsULA, and Cryton.—Dtstrm, Malay Archipe- 
lago, Mauritius. 
A small evergreen tree; branches slender. Leaves 3-6 by 1-23 in., brown when 
dry, coriaceous, nerves few; petiole 1-2 in.; stipules 3 in. Cymes d long- or short- 
peduncled, 3-12-flowered, flowers sessile. Calyx-tube obscurely toothed; 9 terminal 
on a stout peduncle, urn-shaped, campanulate in fruit. Corola very variable, 4—4 in. 
long, silky-pubescent, lobes rounded. Drupe globose, ł-} in. long, rarely oblong, 
ribbed.— There may be more than one Indian species, but the plant is so variable 
that I am unable to decide. Wallich’s G.? Brunonis, from Singapore, has very 
small leaves, and the ¢ cymes have spreading many-flowered branches, The Ceylon 
specimens have larger flowers than the Malayan. 
9, T. Rumphii, DC Prodr. iv. 461; leaves elliptic-lanceolate silky 
beneath. Wall. Cat. 6217. Bobea Wallichiana, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 
ii. 211.—Rumph. Herb. Amb, iii. 216, t. 140. 
Penanc, Maracca, and SixcArong, Wallich, &c.—Disrnrs. Malay Archipelago. 
Very similar to 7. Jambosella, but the d cymes are usually shorter peduncled 
and smaller, and the leaves often very silky beneath. I have, however, great diffi- 
culty in distinguishing these species, and both seem to vary much in the pubescence 
of the leaves and size of flowers; the drupes are oblong or globose. Penang speci- 
mens from Maingay have small leaves, 21-3 in., almost glabrous beneath, and d fl. 
not } in. long; they have ellipsoid or globose berries, and-may be a different species. 
3. T. Finlaysonianus, Mall. Cat. 6223 (Guettarda) ; glabrate, leaves 
obovate or elliptic-oblong tip rounded or obtuse glabrous beneath. Timonius, 
Wall. Cat. 8446. Guettarda peduncularis, Wall. Cat. 6222, in part. 
SINGAPORE, Wallich, G. Thomson. 
Branches stout, glabrous. Leaves 3-5 in., narrowed into the very short petiole ; 
midrib strong, red; nerves very slender. Flower d not seen; 9 solitary or 2-nate 
on pedicels 4-1} in. Drupe globose. nearly } in. diam.—1 doubt this being anything 
but a variety of 7. Jambosella, though the form of the leaf is very different, the 
petiole shorter, and flower larger. The specimens of this genus in Wallich’s Her- 
barium are much mixed. The sheet marked Finlaysonianus (6223) contains two 
specimens of what I think are different things (from Herb. Finlayson): one has 
small (2 in.) elliptic acute leaves, and long pedicelled quite glabrous d flowers j in. 
long, fascicled on a very short peduncle, with a glabrous long-pedicelled young fruit 
from a lower axil; the other specimen has 9 flowers only, solitary in the axils, a 
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