216 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Petals broadly ovate-oblong, pubescent inside. Filaments glabrous. 

 Ovary glabrescent. Style very short ; stigma large, ob-pyramidal, 

 4-lobed. Drupe ovoid, tapering to eaoh end, 4-aijgled when dry, minutely 

 pitted, 4-celled, but often only 2-seeded, "5 in. long and '3 in. diam. 

 when dry. 



Penang : Porter, Maingay (KewDistrib.) No. 280, Curtis. Malacca: 

 Griffith. Perak : Scortechini, King's collector. 



6. GiiYCOSMis, Correa. 



Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaves 1-foliolate or imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets alternate. Floioers small, in axillary, rarely terminal panicles. 

 Calyx 4— 5-partite, segments bi'oad, imbricate. Petals 4-5, imbricate. 

 Staonens 8-10, free, inserted round a disc ; filaments subulate, dilated 

 below ; anthers small, with often a dorsal or apical gland. Ovary 

 2-5-celled ; style very short, persistent, stigma simple, ovules solitary 

 and pendulous in each cell. Berry small, dry or fleshy, 1-3-seeded. 

 Seeds oblong, testa membranous ; cotyledons equal, radicle very short. — 

 DiSTRTB. — Species 5, Asiatic and Australian. 



Ovary glabrous : fruit globular ... ... 1. G. peiitaphylla. 



Ovary haiiy : fruit oblong, narrowed at the 



base ... ... ... ... 2. 0. sapindoidfs. 



Ovary rusty- pilose ... ... ... 3. G. puberula. 



1. Glycosmis pentaphylla, Corr. in Ann. Mus. VI, 384. A glabrous 

 shrub or small tree. Leaves 3- to 5-foliolate, or 1-foliolate, leaflets sub- 

 coriaceous, varying from elliptic-lanceolate, lanceolate, oblong, or obovate, 

 or linear-lanceolate to oblong or even obovate ; the apex acute , acumi- 

 na,te or obtuse ; the edges entire or crenulate ; the base narrowed ; 

 both surfaces shining ; main nerves 4 to 9 pairs, oblique, curving, rather 

 prominent beneath, and depressed above when dry; length 15 to 15 

 in., breadth '5 to 6 in., petiolule 'l to 5 in. Panicles cymose, puberulous 

 to glabrous, varying much in size, usually axillary, but often terminal. 

 Flowers small. Ovary glabrous, 5-celled, rarely 3- to 4-celled : style 

 short, stout. Berry globose, white or bluish white, from the size of a 

 pea to that of a cherry. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind I, 499; Knrz For. 

 Burmah, I, 186: Miq Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, 522: DC. Prodr. i. 538; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 93 ; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v., Suppl. ii. 37 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 6374; Thwaites Eimm. 45 and 406; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 29, 

 Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 2J1 ; Flor. Sylv. Anal. Gen. xliii. t. 6, 

 f. 6. G. chylocarpa, W. & A. Prodr. 93. G. ar6o?-ea, DC. 1. c. ; Wall. 

 Cat. 6373 ; Thwaites Enum. 45. G. Betzii, Roem. Synop3. fasc. i. 41. 

 Sclerostylis pentaphylla, Bl. Bijdr. 135. Linionia pentaphylla, Retz Obs. 

 v. 24; Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 84; Flor. Ind. ii. 381. Ij. arborea, Roxb. Cor. 



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