JACK’S MALAYAN PLANTS, 379 
Found on the island of Pulo Nias. 
It is a moderate sized tree with grey bark. Leaves 
alternate, pinnate with an odd one which is rarely wanting ; 
leaflets from 5—13, opposite, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
entire, smooth, 6—9 inches long. Common petiole flat above 
and marginate, thickened at the base. Panicles terminal, 
many-flowered, rather coarctate, with stiff rigid divisions, 
slightly tomentose. Flowers white. Bracts minute. Calyx 
small, five-leaved, the outer two smaller, resembling bracts. 
Corolla five-petaled, the outer three large, subrotund, the 
inner two much smaller, lanceolate, acute. Stamina five, 
inserted on the bases of the petals; two fertile, upon the 
smaller petals, with broad filaments expanding at top into 
a kind of cup, on which the anther rests, and to whose outer 
edge it is attached; the anther consists of two yellow lobes 
resembling masses of pollen which burst transversely. The 
three sterile stamina which are inserted on the larger petals 
have thick filaments without anthers, but marked with an 
oblong cup-like cavity on each side corresponding to the 
cups of the fertile ones. Before expansion, the 5 stamina 
connive over the pistil in such a manner that the cup-like 
cavities are mutually applied to each other; on expansion 
the fertile stamina separate with a jerk, by which the pollen 
is in part dispersed, and the cup becomes erect with the 
anther resting upon it; the other three never separate, but 
remain conniving over the pistil.. Ovary embraced at the 
base by a nectarial cup with 5 toothlets, ovate, 2-celled, each 
cell containing two ovula attached to the centre of the parti- 
tion. Style short. Stigma small. Berry ovate, oblique or 
recurved, somewhat less than an olive, containing a single 
one-seeded nut. Nut obovate-oblong, acute and curved at 
the base, carinate along one side and having a large umbilical 
hollow above the base on the other, smootb, one-seeded. 
Seed obovate-oblong, acute at the base, covered with a dry 
loose, brown skin: albumen none; embryo glutinous on 
the surface, erect, doubled on itself; cotyledons thin, foli- 
aceous, large, round-ovate, reflected backwards upon the 
