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A very distinct species, at once distinguishable by its small coria- 

 ceous leaflets and large flowers and fruits. 



8. EvoDiA PEDDNCULOSA, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 489. A small 

 tree ? young biauches cylindric, smooth. Leaves 1-foliolate ; petiole rather 

 stout, half-cylindiic, "5 to 1 in, long. Leaflets coriaceous, obovate, 

 abruptly narrowed at the obtuse apex, the base cuneate : both surfaces 

 glabrous, minutely reticulate, main nerves numerous, slender, spreading, 

 length 4 to 5 in. Cymes pedunculate, pubescent, branching near the 

 apex into small trichotomous pubescent cymules ; peduncles I to 4 in. 

 long. Flowers (buds only seen) '1 in. long, shortly pedicelled. Sepals 

 rounded. Petals broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. Ovary 4-cleft, im- 

 mersed in the disc. 



Singapore ; Lobb. 



Known only from Lobb's solitary and imperfect specimen. 



2. Tetractomia, Hook. f. 

 Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled, 1-foliolate, coriaceous, 

 quite entire, punctate. Flowers small, in axillary branched cymes. 

 Calyx small, 4-partite. Petals 4, triangular-ovate, acute, persistent, 

 valvate. Disc broad, glandular, flattish or pulvinate, obtusely 4-angled. 

 Stamens 4 or 8, (4 perfect alternate with the petals, 4 smaller with 

 imparfect anthers opposite the petals and partially adnate to them at 

 the base) ; filaments subulate, flattened at the base ; anthers 2-lobed, 

 dorsifixed. Ovary immersed in the centre of the disc, 4-celled, with 

 4 free projecting lobes ; styles 4, free at the base, connate above ; stigma 

 capitate, obscurely 4-lobed ; ovules 2, collateral in each cell. Fruit 

 of 4 coriaceous, laterally compressed, oblong, 2-seeded cocci, splitting 

 ventrally, the homy endocarp partially separating. Seeds inserted 

 towards the base of the carpels.— Distrib. Three species, natives of 

 the Malayan Peninsula and Borneo. 



Leaves elliptic-obovate, 6 to 9 in. long ; 



flowers "25 in. long: ripe cocci '6 in. long ... 1 T. majus. 

 Leaves usually cuneate-obovate, rarely elliptic- 

 obovate, 25 to 5 in. long; flowers 1'3 in. 

 long; ripe cocci "25 in. long ... ... 2 T. Roxburghii. 



1. Tetractomia MAJDS, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I. 491. A tree: 

 young branches stout ; their bark brown, rough. Leaves very coria- 

 ceous, obovate, elliptic, obtuse, narrowed to the base ; both surfaces 

 glabious, very pale when dry : main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, rather 

 straight, oblique, interarching far from the margin, slightly promi- 

 ment or both surfaces when dry; length 6 to 9 in., breadth 3 to 4 in., 

 petiole 2 to 2 25 in., stout, terete, slightly swollen at base and apex, 



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