102 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



5. Strombosia, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, penni-nerved. 

 Inflorescence shortly cymose. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 

 a shallow cup, more or less 5-lobed, inferior (partly superior in some 

 species). Petals 5, free, hairy within. Stameiis 5, opposite the petals 

 and adnate to their bases. Anthers 2-celled, introrse. Staminodes 0. 

 Ovary wholly superior, or (in some species) partly inferior, imperfectly 

 4- 5-celled, surrounded by a perigjnous lobed disk. Style simj^le. Ovules 

 4-5, pendulous from a central placenta. Fruit drupaceous, surmounted 

 by the remains of the calyx-lobes and of the style, stone crustaceous. 

 Seed pendulous, embryo minute within fleshy albumen. Distrib. 

 Species 6, natives of the Western Peninsula, Ceylon and the Malayan 



Archipelago. 



Flowers in pedicelled few-flowered cymes ... 1. S.javanica. 

 Flowers in sessile many-flowered fascicles ... 

 Leaves ovate to oblong. ovate ; petals '2 in. 



long ... ... ... 2. *S. multiflora. 



Leaves more or less rotund ; petals '15 in. 



long ... ... ... 3. S. rotiindifulia. 



1. Strombosia JAVANicA, Blume Bijdr. 1154. A tree 20 to 50 feet 

 high ; young branches rather slender, glabrous Leaves thinly coria- 

 ceous, glabrous, oblong to elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base rounded ; 

 main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, ascending, slightly prominent be- 

 neath; length 4 to 7 in., breadth 165 to 2'65 in., petiole -6 to "75 in. 

 Cymes axillary, not longer than the petioles, few-flowered ; bracteoles 

 small, deciduous, leaving pale scars. Flovjers ellipsoid in bud, about 

 •2 in. long. Calyx nearly flat with 5 short lobes, inferior in the flower ; 

 (accrescent and half inferior in the frait). Petals erect, mucli exceed- 

 ing the calyx, oblong, obtuse, hairy towards the apex. Stamens 5, op- 

 posite to, nearly as long as, and adhering to the petals. Ovary elongate, 

 tapering into the short style. Fruit oblong-ovoid, glabrous, '8 in. long, 

 and -6 in. in diam., the apex crowned by the calyx and disc. Blume 

 Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 251 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1, Pfc. I, 787 ; Mast, in 

 Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 579; Kurz For. Flora Burmah, I, 235; Valeton, 

 01acine93, 86. 



Penang : Wallich. Malacca : Maingay. Perak : King's Collectors. 



2. Strombosia multiflora. King, n. sp. A glabrous tree 50 feet 

 high and upwards; young branches slendei*, striate, minutely lenti- 

 cellate, cinereous when dry. Leaves coriaceous, ovate to oblong-ovate, 

 acute or shortly acuminate, slightly oblique, rounded at the base, the 

 edges undulate ; leaves 5 to 8 pairs, slightly curved, ascending, slightly 

 prominent on the lower, obsolete on the upper, surface ; length 2*5 to 4 



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