118 Materials fat- a Flora of the Malayan Feninstda. 



towards the Ibase. Connective of anthers everywhere densely silky- 

 comose, the anther lobes separated. Ovary globose-ovoid, tapering into 

 the short style, 1-celled. Dish thin, hyaline, enveloping the base only 

 of the ovary. Fruit unknown. Stemomtrus umhellatus, Beccari, Malesia, 

 1, 115 ; tav. XV, pp. 5, 6. Stemonurus intermedius, Scorfc. MSS. in Herb. 

 Calc. 



Perak : King's Collector-, Scortechini. — Distrib. Borneo. 



3. Lasianthera malaccensis, Mast, in Hook. fij. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 684. 

 A glabrous tree 30 to 40 feet high ; young branches cinereous, terete, 

 glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate, the base narrowed, midrib prominent on the upper, 

 depressed on the lower surface ; main nerves about 10 pairs, straight, 

 sub-ascending, faint on both surfaces ; length 3 to 4"5 in., breadth 1"2 

 to 2"25 in., petiole "8 or ■4 in. Cymes slightly longer than the petioles, 

 dichotomous, 8- to 10-flowered. Floioers sessile, ebracteate, 2 in. long. 

 Calyx with 5 acute teeth, puberulous. Petals 3 or 4 times as long as 

 the calyx, otherwise as in L. secundiflora. Filaments with a small tuft 

 of hairs in front, otherwise as in L. secundiflora. Fruit unknown. Stemo- 

 nurus capitatus, Beccari, Malesia, I, 114, tav. XV, figs. 7 to 11 ; Valeton, 

 OlacineaB, 236. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), N'o. 385. Penang : Curtis, 

 Nos. 912, 957. Perak : King's Collector, Scortechini. 



This species has smaller leaves and different cymes from L. secuti' 

 diflora, but the flowers of the two are very much alike. 



15. GONOCARYUM, Miq. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, penni-nerved, coriaceous. Floioers 

 in long axillary spikes, dimorphous. Calyx of 5 free, ovate, imbricate 

 sepals. Corolla much longer than the calyx, gamopet;ilous, tubular, 

 with 5 acute spreading short teeth, slightly inflexed at the very apex, 

 and valvate in aestivation. Stamens 5, alternate with the teeth of the 

 corolla, the filaments adherent to its tube, free only towards the apex 

 anthers sub-exserted, alternate with the teeth, oblong, bilocular, dehis- 

 cing longitudinally. Ovary ellipsoid, seated on the glabrous annular 

 disk, auinute, bilocular, the cells (unequal ?), uniovulate, the ovule 

 pendulous. Style 1, very short, the stigma apical. Drupe dry, spongy, 

 4-gonous, ridged, narrowed to each end, crowned by the small incurved 

 style and stigma ; the calyx persistent at its base but not enlarged, 2-cell- 

 ed, the obsolete second cell being represented by a cylindrical cavity in the 

 spongy mesocarp ; the epicarp membranous, sub-glabrous in its upper 

 half, puberulous towards the apex; eudocarp papery, with a few minute 



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