Materials for a Flora of the Malaijan Feninsula. 219 



pairs, oblique, not prominent ; length 1 "5 to 35 in., breadth "5 to "I'v, 

 Cymes large, terminal, much branched, pedunclate, 4; to 8 in. in diam., 

 mauy-floweied, minutely bracteolate. Flowers •25 to '5 in. in diani., 

 on pedicels '1 to •2in. long, buds oblong. Calyx sub-entire or 5- 

 toothed. Petals linear-oblong, sub-acute. Filaments alternately longer. 

 Ovary mostly pubescent, usually 5-celled. Berry ovoid or oblong, 3 to 

 •4- in. long, pitted, glabrescent, 1-seeded. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. lud. I, 501 ; 

 Kurz For. Flora Burmah I, 186 : Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. ii. 

 40 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylv. Anal, Gen. xliii. t. 7, f. 1 ; Thwaites Enum. 46. 

 JBergera integerrima, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 376 ; Wall. Cat. 6371. Auran- 

 tiacea, Wall. Cat. 8517, 8518. 



In all the Provinces. Distrib. — British India, China, the Mahiyau 

 Archipelago, and Australasia. 



2. MiCROMELUM HiRsuTUii, Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. V. Suppl. 

 II, 40. A shrub, all parts (but especially the inflorescence) more or 

 less tomentose, rarely glabrescent. Leaves 6 to 12, rarely 15 in. long ; 

 leaflets membranous, 9 to 25, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rarely 

 ovate, shortly acuminate, the edges obscurely serrate, the base often 

 oblique, lower sux^face softly tomentose ; main nerves 5 to 10 pairs, 

 rather prominent beneath : length 1-5 to 3"5 in., breadth '8 to 1'5 in. 

 Cymes terminal, very tomentose, often lax, and 6 to 8 in. in diam., but 

 sometimes condensed and only 2 in. in diam. Flowers *25 in. in diam. 

 Calyx deeply 5-lobed, hirsute. Ovary villous. Berry oblong or 

 obovoid, pubescent, pitted. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 502 ; Kurz For. 

 Flora Burmah I, 187 : Wall Cat. 8516. 



Penang, Siugapoi'e, Perak, but not very common. Dlstrib. — 

 British India, Burmah, Philippines, 



This is closely allied to M. pubescens, but is usually a smaller 

 shrub. The chief differences between the two lie in the greater amount 

 of pubescence in this, and the smaller size of its flowers. 



8. MuRRAYA, Linn. 



Unarmed shrubs or small trees. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets alternate, 

 petioled, base oblique or cuneate. Flowers solitary and axillary, or in 

 terminal corymbs or axillary cymes. Calyx 5-fid or partite. Petals 5, 

 free, imbricate. Stamens 10, inserted on an elongate disc ; filament.s 

 subulate, alternately shorter : anthers shortly ovate. Ovary 2- to 5- 

 celled, narrowed into the long deciduous style, stigma capitate ; ovules 

 solitary, or 2 superposed or collateral in each cell. Berry oblong or 

 ovoid, 1- to 2-celled, 1- to 2-seeded. Testa of seed woolly or glabrous ; 

 cotyledons fleshy, plano-convex, similar. DrsxRiB. — 4 species, tropical 

 Asiatic. 



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