Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. Ill 



Seed pendulous, the embryo straight, in the axis of the copious albu- 

 men, — DiSTRiB. about 4 species ; all Malayan. 



1. Platea excelsa, Blume Bijdr. Q4:Q. A tree 50 to 100 feet high ; 

 young branches slender, softly rusty-puberulous. Leaves thinly coria- 

 ceous, elliptic to oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, the base rounded 

 or very slightly narrowed ; upper surface sparsely rufous, puberulous 

 at first, afterwards almost glabrous ; lower minutely cinereous-lepidote ; 

 reticulations minute, rather distinct and puberulous on both surfaces ; 

 main nerves about 7 pairs, spreading, curved, puberulous ; length 4*5 

 to 7 in., breadth 1'75 to 3*5 in,, petiole "5 to "75 in. Female floivers in 

 axillary, 7-or 8 flowered, shoi-tly pedunculate, pubescent, axillary cymes 

 •5 in. long. Sepals "5 in., broadly ovate, acute, pubescent externally. 

 Petals none or early deciduous. Ovary cylindvic, puberulous ; ovule 

 (only 1 seen) pendulous, much elongate. Fruit narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, 

 tapering much to the apex, the base rounded 1 to 1'3 in, long, and "5 in. 

 in diam. ; when ripe the pericarp yellowish, thin, glabrous ; endocarp bony 

 with a few short fui-rows, seed much attenuate at the upper end. Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 1, 793: Beccari Malesia I, 116: Valeton Olacinese, 

 253. 



Perak : King's Collector, Wi-ay. Penang : King's Collector, N"o. 

 1302. DisTRiB. — Java. 



13. GOMPHANDRA, Wall. 



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

 (rarely triple-nerved at the base). Flowers polygamo-dioecious, cy- 

 mose, (practically unisexual). Calyx minute, cupular, 4- 5-toothed. 

 Petals 4 or 5, sometimes united and 4-or 5-cleft; often absent in the 

 female flower. Stamens 4 or 5, hypogynous, alternate with the petals ; 

 filaments thick, flattened, hollowed in front, and attenuate at the apex ; 

 anthers rather small, pendulous from the apices of the filameiits, 2- 

 lobed, the dehiscence longitudinal. Hypogynous disc thick, annular, or 

 absent. Male flower with rudimentary ovary sunk in the fleshy disc, 

 the stigma minute. Female flower with long cylindric ovary and large dis- 

 coid stigma, 1-celled (2-celled in two species), the ovules 2, collateral, 

 pendulous from the apex, the funicle dilated. Fruit elongate, drupe- 

 like, surmounted by the remains of the stigma; pericarp smooth, thin, 

 endocarp leathery. Seed solitary, pendulous ; albumen fleshy, bi-par- 

 tite ; embryo minute. — Distrib. 8 or 10 species ; Tropics of Asia. 

 Flowers 4-mei'Ous. 



Filaments with a large tuft of long white 

 glandular hairs on both surfaces near the 

 apex ... ... ... 1. G. comosa. 



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