220 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. MuREAYA EXOTICA, Linn. A glabrous shrub or small tree : young 

 branches terete, the bark pale when dry. Leaves 4 to 5 in. long, 3-to 

 8-foliolate ; leaflets thinly coriaceous, shining, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 occasionally rhomboid, more or less obtusely acuminate, the apex often 

 notched, edges entire ; the base cuneate, often oblique. Corymbs termi- 

 nal, few-flowered. Flotvers campaimlate. Sepals acute. Petals oblong- 

 lanceolate, white. Ovary 2-celled, style slender, stigma capitate. 

 Berry ovoid or sab-globose, shining, red when i-ipe, '5 in. long, 2-seeded. 

 Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 502 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Ft. 2 p. 522 ; Kurz 

 For. Flora Burmah I, 190 ; Oliver in Jour. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. 11, 28 : 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 374 ; Blume Bijdr. 1363 ; Wall. Cat. 6368 ; Thwaites 

 Enum. 45 ; Wight Ic. t. 96 ; Brandis For. Flora N. India, 48. M. exotica 

 and hrevifolia, Thwaites Enum. 45. M. paniculata, Jack in Mai. Misc. 

 I, 31 ex Hook. Bot. Misc. II, 79 ; DC. Prodr. I, 537 ; W. & A. Prodr. 

 94 ; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 29. M. sumatrana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 

 375 ; Wall. Cat. 6369 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. c. 523. Chalcas paniculata, 

 Linn. Gh. suniatrana, Roem. Synops. fasc. I, 49. M. Glenieii, Thwaites 

 Enum. 406 ; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. II, 29. 



Andaman Islands. Malayan Peninsula, Griff. (Kew Distrib.) 

 No. 520. Distrib. — British India, China, Australia. Much cultivated 

 in gardens on account of the fragrance of its flowers. 



9.- Clausena, Burm. 



Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaves imparipinnate, usually deciduous, 

 leaflets membranous. Floivers small, in terminal or axillary cymes 

 panicles or lax racemes. Calyx 4-5-lobed or-partite. Petals 4-5, free, 

 membranous, margins imbricate. Stamens 8-10, inserted round an 

 elongated disc, the alternate shoi'ter ; filaments usually dilated or arched 

 and concave below the subulate tip ; anthers short. Ovary stipitate, 

 4-5- (rarely 2-3-) -celled ; style usually distinct, deciduous; stigma 

 obtuse, entire or 2-5-lobed ; ovules 2, collateral, or superposed in each 

 cell. Berry small, ovoid, oblong or globose, 2-5-celled. Seeds oblong, 

 testa membranous ; cotyledons equal, plano-convex. Distrib. Species 

 about 14 ; chiefly tropical Asiatic, with a few African and Australian. 



1. Clausena excavata, Burm. Fl. Ind. 87. A shrub or small tree : 

 young branches pubescent or tomentose, as are the young leaves and 

 the inflorescence. Leaves 6 to 12 in. long ; leaflets 15 to 29, membran- 

 ous, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, obscui*ely crenate ; the 

 base narrowed, very oblique ; the upper surface when adult glabres- 

 cent or glabrous; length I'b to 3*4 in., breadth "5 to 1 in. ; petiolule 

 •1 in. . Panicle terminal, pyramidal, its length 4 to 12 in , of which the 

 peduncle forms a third ; branches spreading, alternate. Floivers '25 



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