190 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



styles 3-5, filiform, stigmas cuneate, 2-lobecl ; ovules 2, collateral. Drupe 

 scarcely flesliy, subglobose ; stone 3-6-angled, bony, cells 1-2-seeded. 

 Seeds compressed, pendulous ; albumen rather flesliy, embryo with 

 foliaceous cotyledons and an elongate radicle. — Distrib. 3 or 4 species, 

 one or more Malayan and 2 from Guiana. 



J. RoDCHERiA Grippithiana, Planch. in Hook. Journ. Bot. VI, 143 : 

 VII, 527. A glabrous climbing shrub with hooked lateral branchlets. 

 Leaves alternate, lanceolate, oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, rather 

 bluntly caudate-acuminate, obscurely crenate-serrate, the base cuneate ; 

 main nerves faiut, 6 to 8 pairs, curving ; length 3 to 5 in., bi'eadth 1*2 

 to 16 in, ; petiole '35 to "5 in., slender. Flowers '3511]. in diam,, in dense 

 sliortly-pedicelled clusters of 7 or 8. Petals narrowly oblong, obtuse, 

 very fugaceous, thin. Drupe ovoid, '25 in, long, the pulp thin. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 414. 



In all the provinces except the Andamans and Nicobars. Distrib. 

 Sumatra, Borneo. 



2. Erythroxylon, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees, usually quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, 

 entire, often subdistichous ; stipules intrapetiolar, often imbricating on 

 short arrested leafless branches. Flowers axillary, small, white or pink, 

 solitai'y or fascicled, peduncles bracteolate. Sepals 5, rarely 6, free or 

 connate. Petals 5, hypogynous, deciduous, with an erect double ligula 

 on the inner face, imbricate. Stamens 10, rarely 12, filaments united 

 into a glandular or eglandular tube. Ovary 3- rarely 4-celled ; styles 

 3 rarely 4, free or connate, stigmas capitate ; ovules, 1 , rarely 2 in each 

 cell. Drupe 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed with a thin testa, albumen variable 

 in quantity or ; embryo straight, cotyledons plano-convex, radicle 

 short. — Distrib. Species about 50, mostly American, and tropical. 



1. Erythroxylon burmanicum Grilf. Notul. IV, 468 : Ic, PI. Asiat. 

 t, 581, f. 3. A glabrous tree 20 to 30 feet high. Leaves elliptic or 

 obovate-elliptic, obtuse or slightly emarginate, the base cuneate ; upper 

 surface shining, the lower glaucous, both with open reticulations ; 

 the main nerves about 8 pairs, not more prominent than the secondary ; 

 leno-th 1*75 to 25 in., breadth '75 to 1*25 in., petiole '2 to "3 in. Floivers 

 in clusters of 2 to 4, their pedicels about '25 in. long. Fruit cylindric- 

 clavate shining, "5 in. long ; the calyx and staminal tube sub-persistent. 

 Hook. fil. El. Br, Ind. I, 415; Kurz For. Fl. Burma I, 171. E. suma- 

 tranum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 572. E. retusum, Bauer ex Teysm. 

 and Binn. in Tijdisch Nat. Ver. Ned. Ind. XXViffpTl. Ficus cuneata, 

 Wall. Cat, 4534, ^ *^ ' ^^"^ 



In all the provinces. Distkip. Burma, Sumatra. 

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