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Padavara. Rheed. Mai. 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 laciniae 

 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. 



Obs. 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. Stipides 

 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, 

 angular. 



Obs. The flowers of this species are perfectly similar to 



