I. Persea pcduncularis. 123 



1. Persea p cduncularis N. ab E. 



P. dioica (?), foliis ellipticis cuspidatis basi attenuates, 

 pedicellis fructus valde incrassatis arcuatis pcduaculo commuai 

 longioribus. 



Machilus peduncularis iV. ab E. in Wall. pi. As. rar. II. 

 p. 70 n. 3. 



, Laurus pctluneularis Wall. Cat. n. 25G9. 



Machilus, species teitia media. Humph. Herb. Amb. HI-, 

 p. 70. tab. 41.? 



Habitat in Penang, ubi cl. Wallich a. 1822. legit. 



Arbor. Rami flexuosi, inaequales, teretes, glabri, per 

 intervalla foliosi, epidermide alba laevi ; cortex lutescens, insi- 

 pidus; lignum densum, e fibris subtilibus textum, lutescens, 

 nitidum; tubus medullaris angustus. Ramuli infra folia circa 

 apices ramorum annotinorum congesta orti, graciles, breves, 

 basi longo spatio nudi, apice foliosi; innovatio terminalis cras- 

 sior, basi cicatricosa. Cicatrices foliorum cordatae, circa 

 innovationum apices confertae. Gemma foliigena terminalis 

 lanceolata, acuta, e squamis foliaceis subbivalvis, glabra. 

 Folia circa ramorum et ramulorum terminos approximata, cir- 

 citer sex, subalterna, divergentia in nostris haud eruenda, 

 &-r-6 pollices longa, i 1 /^ — 2 pollices lata, obovato - elliptica 

 vcl oblonga, basi cuneiformi - attenuata, cuspidata, cuspide an- 

 gusta sed obtusiuscula, tenuia, concoloria, utrinque nilida, glabra, 

 reticulata, penninervia, ramis principalibus citra margines arcuato- 

 «oeuntibus. Petioli semipollicares, glabri, supra canaliculali, 

 margiuibus aculis. F lores (abortu feminei) supra folia circa 

 ramulorum noveilorum apices paniculati. Pedunculi 2 — 5 

 alterni, approximati, solitarii, cicatrice bracteae caducae semilu- 

 nari pallida cincti, iiliformes, compressi, glabri, i]/ 2 — 2 poll. 

 longi, iaferne nudi, ultra medium florigeri. Pedicelli bili 

 neares, patentes, cicatrice cincti, tenues, glabri, alterni vel 

 per paria approximati, triflorh Flores umbellulati, pedicelFati, 

 pedicellis \y % Hneas longis, sub anthesi peduneulo vix eras- 

 sioribus, articulatim insertis. Perianthia masculina non villi. 



