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Inflorescentia axillaris, 2-1-floris. Floris § , majusculi, 5-meri. 

 Calyx 5-partitus, parvus, lobis triangulari-ovatis. Petala 5, 

 deorsum angustatis. Stamina 10, libera, inaequalia. Ovarium 

 5- rariter 6-loculare, stipitatum, in stylum elongatum attenuatum, 

 stigmate capitato; ovula in loculis 8 ad 10. Bacca subglobosa, 

 magna, pericarpio crassissime coriaceo, irregulariter radiatim- 

 lacunoso, septis cartilagineis, loculis muco repletis, semina nume- 

 rosa (in quoque loculo ca. 8 ad 10), lenticularis, testa dense 

 paleaceis, paleae leviter fimbriatae, membranaceae, elongatae, 

 hilo carinato, subariloideo. Germinatione cotyledones subterra- 

 neae, foliis primariis simplicibus, oppositis, late ovato-lanceo- 

 latis. 



The type species of this genus is Murraya caloxylon RidL, a 

 tree native to the Malay Peninsula. It is known from southern 

 Siam and Upper Perak, and is in cultivation in the Singapore 

 Botanic Gardens. 



Specimens examined: H. C. Robinson 5548, Upper Perak, 

 Kenering, at 500 feet elevation (British Museum, London) ; 

 /. H. Bur kill, March, 1918, from a tree cultivated in the Singa- 

 pore Botanic Gardens, the specimen with flowers and fruits. 



Only one species is known, the katinga of the Malay Penin- 

 sula and Siam. 



MERRILLIA CALOXYLON (Ridley) Swingle comb. nov. Plates V and VI. 

 Murraya caloxylon Ridley in Journ. Straits Branch Roy As Soc. 

 50 (1908) 113. 



The original description is as follows : 



Murraya caloxylon, n. sp. 



A tree of considerable size the branches covered with a pale flaky bark. 

 Leaves 8 inches or more long with 13 leaflets, rachis flattened and winged 

 narrow, leaflets 3-3^ inches long or less by 1J inch wide, alternate oblan- 

 ceolate obtusely acuminate with a triangular base, minutely petiolate 

 inequilateral thin bright deep green. Flowers pale yellowish green sev- 

 eral together in small panicles, in the upper axils of a branch, about 

 an inch long. Sepals connate ovate acute i/ 10 inch long. Petals and 

 stamens not seen. Ovary stalked, hairy, style rather stout hairy, stigma 

 capitulate. Fruit oblong rounded at both ends, 4 inches long and three 

 inches in diameter, the pericarp dotted and warty greenish eventually 

 becoming yellow, half an inch thick, lemon yellow inside, full of long 

 resin cells narrowed at the mouth and dilated below, cells 5, with rather 

 thick tough walls, pulp of transparent flattened sticky fibers olive green 



*J T, k taSt t leSS ' Seeds numer ™s ^out 5 in a section ovate 

 flattened half an inch long » inch thick, olive grey 



Southern Siam: Patani (Penney); Upper Perak: Kenering at 500 feet 

 elevation (Robinson 5548). 



for T ^ f ee f !l n 7 n « the Katinga is famous in the Malay peninsula 

 for its beautiful wood. This handsome wood is of light yellow color, 



