136 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pemnstila. 



surface shining, the lower dull and sub-glaucous ; main nerves 10 or 12 

 pairs, sub-horizontal, faint on the lower, obsolete on the upper surface ; 

 length 4 to 5-5 in., breadth J -35 to 2 in., petiole "4 to "65 in. Male 

 flowers in pedicelled sab-umbellulate sub-racemose cymes about 1"25 in. 

 long ; the buds globular, less than "1 in. in diam. Calyx lohes 4 in the 

 male, 6 in the female, rounded, not ciliate. Petals in the male 

 4, broadly oblong ; stamens longer than the petals and attached to their 

 bases. Female -flowers in short racemes ; petals and stamens 6, hypogy- 

 noas. Ripe drupes ovoid or globular, "2 to '25 in. in diam., grooved 

 when dry ; pedicels stout, as long as the drupes, pulp scanty ; pyrenes 

 4 to 6, trigonous, thickly coriaceous ; stigma sessile, swollen. 



Penai.g, Main gay ; (Kew Distrib.), No. 1021; Curtis, No. 2152. 

 Perak ; Scortechini, King's Collector. 



6. Ilex macro phylla. Wall. Cat. 4331. A tree 16 to 30 feet 

 high ; young branches stout, pale, sometimes lenticellate. Leaves cori- 

 aceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, entire, the base 

 slightly narrowed ; upper surface shining with the midrib depressed 

 and the nerves obsolete ; the lower dull, the 12 pairs of spreading 

 nerves slightly prominent and interarching freely at some distance from 

 the edge ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 2"5 in., petiole about '5 in. 

 Cymes dense, capituliform, often branching; their pedicels slender, 

 axillary, longer than the petioles. Flowers "IS in. in diam., 4-6-merous. 

 Calyx with broad deep teeth. Petals broadly oblong, obtuse in the male 

 flowers, united at the base ; in the females, free and sub-equal. Stamens 

 longer than the corolla and inserted on it. Drupes sub-globular, '2 in. 

 in diam., the stigma permanent and prominent ; pyrenes about 8, 

 trigonous. 



Penang: Phillips, Wallich, Curtis, King's Collector. Malacca: 

 Griffith, Maingay. Singapore : Ridley. 



7. Ilex ctmosa, Blume Bijdr. 1149. A glabrous tree 15 to 40 

 feet high ; young branches slender, very pale. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 elliptic-oblong to elliptic, the apex often shoitly and bluntly acuminate, 

 the base slightly narrowed or rounded, lower surface slightly glaucous ; 

 main nerves about 6 to 8 pairs, curved, ascending : length 2'5 to 45 in., 

 breadth 135 to 2'5 in., petiole '25 to "35 in. Cymes solitary, peduncu- 

 late, branched and often paniculate, spreading, many -flowered, rather 

 lax. Flowers '1 in. in diam. ; their pedicels slender, "25 in. long. Male 

 flowers 4-5-merous ; the calyx lobes broad, rounded, ciliolate ; petals 

 broadly obtuse, about as long as the stamens. Female flowers with 5-6- 

 merous calyx, and 6 to 8 short erect free concave slightly unequal petals; 

 ovary globular-pyramidal ; style short, thick ; stigma large, hemispheric. 

 Drupes globular, ovoid, crowned by the persistent style and stigma, 



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