108 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Ovary ovoid, grooved, imperfectly 4- or 5-celled, with 4 or 5 elongated 

 pendulous ovules. Style simple, m^ich longer than the ovary; stigma 

 minutely-lobed, terminal. Fruit globose, 1-celled, the epicarp thin, fleshy, 

 the endocarp crustaceous. Seed solitary, globular, pendulous from the 

 apex by a filiform thread (? placenta), embryo near the apex of the 

 fleshy albumen, radicle superior. One species ; native of Malaya. 



1. ScoRODOCARPUS BoRNEENSis, Beccari in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 

 IX, 273. A tall very foetid tree ; branches dark-coloured, lenticellate. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acute, the base slightly cuneate or 

 rounded ; both surfaces glabrous, the reticulations transverse ; main 

 nerves about 5 pairs, curved, ascending, prominent beneath ; length 5 

 to 6 5 in., breadth 2*5 to 3 in., petiole about '75 in. Racemes under 

 2 in. long, puberulous, the flowers in clusters of 3 or 4. Calyx with 

 wavy edge, nearly glabrous. Buds oblong ; petals puberulous outside, 

 •3 to '35 in. long. Disc 0. Frtiit glabrous, 2 in. in diam. Yaleton 

 Olacineae, 88. Schmidelia foetidissima, Wall. Cat. 8064. Ximinia bor- 

 neensis, Baillon Adansonia LXI. 271 (in part). 



Singapore : Wallich, Ridley, King. Johore : Ridley. Perak : King's 

 Collector. — Distrib. Borneo. 



Rather a common tree, every part of which has a foetid alliaceous 

 odour. The wood is hard and durable, and is much prized for various 

 purposes. This tree was collected by Wallich in Singapore, and he 

 referred it to Schmidelia. The Wallichian specimens, however, were 

 overlooked, and the plant was first described by Baillon from specimens 

 collected by Signer Beccari in Borneo. Subsequently the latter Bota- 

 nist founded for its reception, the genus Scorodocarpus. Its affinities 

 are with Ximenia. 



11. Anacolosa, Blume. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple, penni-nerved. 

 Ivflorescence cymose, axillary. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-7-toothed, not 

 accrescent. Petals 5-7, oblong, free, valvate, springing with the stamens 

 from a hypogynous or perigynous disk. Stamens concealed in the 

 cavity of the petals and slightly adnate to their bases, filaments 

 glabrous, or pilose at the apex ; anthers broad, innate, 2-celled, dehiscing 

 Ion o'itudiu ally. Ovary imperfectly 2- 3-celled below, 1-celled above ; 

 style cylindric, the stigma shortly lobed ; ovules 2 or 3, pendulous, the 

 placenta central. Fruit drupe-like, with the disc persistent at its apex 

 and the slightly accrescent calyx at its base ; stone crustaceous, 1- or im- 

 perfectly 2-celled, with a single pendulous seed ; embryo minute at the 

 apex of fleshy albumen, radicle superior. — Distrib. 5 or 6 species, Bi-itish 

 Indian and Malayan. 



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