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2. EuTHEMis MINOR, Jack in Mai. Misc. No. V, p. 18. A small 

 shrub, similar to the last, but with nearly entire, sub-acute, obscurely- 

 veined leaves, and red fruits. Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey), ii, 304; 

 Bennett in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 526; Miq. Fl. lud. Bat. I, 

 Pt. 2, p. 675. 



Penang and Singapore. — Distrib. Malayan Archipelago. 



I give Penaiig and Singapore as localities for this species, on the 

 authority of Hooker's Flora of British India. It is, however, now pro- 

 bably extinct in both ; and I have seen no specimens from any locality 

 nearer to them than the island of Baugka. In Jack's time, this plant 

 appears to have been common enough in Singapore. The plant named 

 Euthemis elegantissima, by Wallich, although doubtfully placed in 

 this genus by its author, has leaves very like those of E. leucocarpa ; but 

 the main nerves curve in a very different manner. Wallich never 

 found it in fruit ; but in his day plants of it were common in Singapore 

 and the neighbouring small islands. This too appears now to be extinct. 

 The reduction of E. elegantissima to Gomphia sumatrana. Planch, 

 which was first suggested by Planehon, is in my opinion quite wrong, the 

 leaves of the two being veiy different. 



Order XXVI. BURSERACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, mostly resiniferous. Leaves alternate (very 

 rarely opposite), imparipinnate or trifoliolate, stipulate or ex-stipulate. 

 Inflorescence racemose or paniculate. Floivers i-egular, small, herma- 

 phrodite or often polygamous. Calyx free, 3-6-lobed, imbricate or 

 valvate, often minute. Petals 3-6, distinct, i-arely connate, imbricate or 

 valvate. D/sc annular or cupulai^ or absent, usually conspicuous, free, 

 or adnate to the calyx. Stamens as many or twice as many as petals, 

 inserted at the base or margin of the disc, equal or unequal ; filaments 

 free or connate at the base, smooth ; anthers dorsifixed, rarely innate, 

 2-locular, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary free, rarely 1-, more often 

 2-5-celled ; style simple, stigma undivided or 2-5-lobed ; ovules 2, or 

 rarely 1 in each cell, anatropous, usually pendulous, rarely ascending, 

 micropyle superior, raphe ventral. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent with 

 hard putamen, or separating into 2-5 pyrenes, rarely pseudo-capsular 

 and dehiscent. Seeds solitai-y, usually pendulous, testa membranous, 

 albumen ; cotyledons usually membranous, contortuplicate, rarely fleshy 

 and plano-convex, radicle superior. — Distrib. Tropical regions of both 

 hemispheres ; genera 15 to 19. Species about 250. 



Calyx, corolla, and stamens 5-merous. 



Fruit hard, woody, 3-\viugxd, separating 



into 3 indehiscent pyrcucs ... 1. Triomma. 



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