Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 107 



of fruit of this), being the gi*eater size of its flowers, and the colour 

 of the tomentum of the flowers and inflorescence which in this is rusty, 

 whereas in G. parvifoUus it is pale. Professor Oliver relies as a diagnostic 

 mark on a difference in the length of the ovarian cavity ; the cavity of 

 the ovary in G. parvifoUus reaching nearly to the base of the style, 

 whereas in Q. grandifolius it occupies the base only of the ovary. 



9. XiMENiA, Linn. 



A shrub or low tree. Branches spiny. Leaves shortly petioled, 

 alternate, simple, 1-nerved. Floivers racemose, usually hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx cupular, 4- 5-toothed, persistent, not accrescent. Petals 4-5, 

 oblong, revolute, hairy within. Stamens twice as many as the petals, 

 hypogynous ; anthers innate, linear, 2-celled. Staminodes 0. Ovary 

 sessile, superior, 4-celled ; style columnar, stigma simple ; ovules 

 solitary in each cell, pendulous, anatropous. Drupe ovoid, 1 -celled ; 

 stone solitary. — Djstrib. Species, 4-5, 1 Mexican, 1 South African, 

 1 Bornean, 1 Polynesian, 1 widely dispersed through the Tropics of 

 both hemispheres. 



1. XiMENiA. Americana, Linn. Sp. PL 1193. Glabrous, the young 

 shoots striate and lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-ovate to sub-or- 

 bicular, the apex emarginate, the base rounded ; length J to 2 in., breadth 

 •75 to 1"25 in. Racemes short, axillary, or at the ends of short branches, 

 few-flowered. Floivers hermaphrodite or polygamous, "35 in. long ; the 

 bads oblong, acute, bracts minute. Calyx much shorter than the 

 petals. Anthers linear, erect, the connective thick. Ovary ovoid-conical, 

 glabrous. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma simple. Fruit oval, 

 glabrous, about 1 in. long, orange-red when ripe, the pericarp pulpy ; 

 endocarp bony, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Lamk. lUust. 297, fig. 1 ; DC. Prod. 

 I, 533 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 252 ; W. and A. Prod. 89 ; Blume Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd. Bat. I, 247 ; Miq. Fl. Ind, Bat. I, Pt. 1, 786 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. I, 574 ; Pierre For. Flor. Coch. China, x. 265 ; Kurz For. Flora 

 Burma I, 233 ; Valeton Olacineee, 74. X Busselliana, Wall. Cat. 6784. 



Malacca, Singapore, Nicobar and Andaman Islands : — Distkib. 

 Malayan Archipelago ; Peninsular India. 



10. ScoRODOCARPus, Beccari, 

 A tall tree. Leaves alter'nate, simple, penni-nerved. Flowers dich- 

 lamydeous, in short axillary racemes. Calyx small, cupular, 4-crenate, 

 not enlarging with the fruit. Petals 4i or 5, hypogynous, narrow, val- 

 vate, coherent by their edges until mature, lanate internally. Stamens 

 twice as many as the petals, attached to them in pairs, dehiscing sutu- 

 rally, the filaments shorter than the linear elongate erect anthers, 



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