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Padavara. heed. Mal. v. 7. p. 51. t. 27.—Mangkudu 
kichul. Malay. 
Native of the Malay Islands.—A small, diffuse shrub, with 
long, slender branches, nodose at the bifurcations, Leaves 
opposite, shortly petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, very entire, 
very smooth, the nerves reddish below, and furnished with 
ciliated glands in the axils. Stipules interpetiolar, truncate. 
Peduncles 5-10, umbellate, terminal. Flowers aggregate on 
a common receptacle. Calyx an entire margin, crowning 
the ovary. Corolla infundibuliform, 4-parted, the lacinie 
densely covered within with long white hairs. Stamens 4, 
shorter than the corolla, and alternating with its divisions: 
filaments very short: anthers oblong. Ovary inferior, 2- 
celled, 4-seeded. ,Stigma bifid. Fruit subglobose, yellow, 
composed of coadunate berries, angular by their mutual 
compression, crowned with the vestige of the calyx, 4-seeded: 
seeds osseous. 
Oss. Rheede describes his Padavara to be fourteen feet 
high: this is the only particular in which it differs from my 
plant. In every other respect they agree exactly. 
MORINDA POLYSPERMA. W. J. 
Tetrandra, pedunculis axillaribus et terminalibus, corollis 4- 
fidis intus hirsutis, foliis ovatis acuminatis, baccis bilocu- 
laribus polyspermis ! 
Found on the Island of Singapore.—A shrub, with short, 
subdichotomous, flexuose branches. Leaves opposite, petio- 
late, ovate, acuminate, obtuse at the base, very entire, very — 
smooth, coriaceous, flat, about three inches long. Stipules 
short, interpetiolar. Peduncles axillary and terminal; axil- + 
lary ones opposite; terminal ones from 1-4, in a kind of 
umbel. Capitula few-flowered. Calyx an entire margin. 
Corolla infundibuliform, 4-parted, densely covered within 
with white hairs. Stamens 4, shorter than the corolla: 
filaments short: anthers linear. Style erect. Stigma bifid. 
Berries coadunate, 2-celled, many-seeded ! Seeds numerous — F 
angular. 
Oss. The Bowers of this species are perfectly similar v I 
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