260 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



apices, bracteoles minute. Floioers "1 in. or less in diam., their pedicels 

 twice as long. Calyx cupular with 3 broad, shallow, blunt teeth, nearly 

 glabrous. Petals rotund, glabrous. Stamens 6, inflexed ; anthers ovate, 

 about as long as the flattened filaments which are inserted by their 

 slightly dilated bases outside the glabrous fleshy lobed and corrugated 

 disc. Rudimentary ovary ovoid, sunk in the disc, pubescent ; style very 

 short ; stigma 3-lobed, small, terminal. Female flowers in panicles like the 

 males, the stamens with broader filaments: ovai*y broadly ovoid, 

 pubescent, style very short : stigma large, discoid, cupulate, terminal, 

 Ripe drupes ovoid-globose, "5 in. long, glabrous, the scar of the stigma 

 near the base, the pericarp thinly coriaceous. Engler in DeCand, 

 Monogr. Phaueiog. IV, 163. 



Malacca: Maingay, Nos. 303, 308, 314 (Kew Distrib.) Perak : 

 Scortechini 1701 : King's collector; — Distrib. ; Sumatra. 



The fruit is remarkable for the close approximation of the 

 remains of the stigma to the peduncle. The venation of the leaves 

 is variable : in many specimens the main nerves bifurcate about half 

 way between the midrib and the edge of the leaf, while in others there 

 is no bifurcation at all, 



11. Santiria costata, a. W. Benn. in Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 537. A tree : young branches with gray bark, rusty-puberulous at first, 

 ultimately glabrous. Leaves 6 to 9 in. long : stipules (if any) deciduous ; 

 the rachises broadly channelled above in the lower part, but not winged 

 at the base. Leaflets coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, shortly 

 and bluntly acuminate, the base acute or rounded : upper surface quite 

 glabrous and shining, the midrib prominent on both surfaces ; lower 

 surface boldly reticulate and with a few scattered hairs; the 9 to 11 

 pairs of main nerves spreading, curving, very prominent, rusty-pubescent ; 

 length 3'5 to 4*5 in., breadth 1'25 to 2 in., ; petiolules '35 to "5 in., 

 thickened at both ends. Panicles solitary, much shorter than the leaves, 

 (only about 3 in, long) few-branched, rusty-tomentose, deciduously 

 bracteolate. Flowers 1 in. long, in small fascicles at the ends of the 

 branchlets ; the slender pedicels about as long or longer. Calyx cupular, 

 truncate, dentate, glabrescent. Petals much longer than the calyx, 

 broadly o/ate, blunt, concave, nearly glabrous. Stamens 6 ; the filaments 

 about as long as the anthers, slender and inserted beneath the mai'gin 

 of the outside of the small ring-like disc. Eipe drupes nari'owly ovoid, 

 slightly flattened on one side, '75 in. long and '5 in. in diam,, the 

 scar of the stigma apical. Engler in DeCandolle Monogr. Phanerog. 

 IV, 157. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 313. Perak: King's col- 

 lector, No. 7597. 



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