Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 339 



grooved when dry ; the pulp scanty ; pyrenes about 8, trigonous. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 605. I. singaporiana, Wall. Cat. 6526. Primos cymosa, 

 Hassle. Tijdshcr. Nat. Gesch. X, 140 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, I, pt. 2, 695 

 Leucodermis javnnica. Planch. MSS. 



In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands : 

 common. — Distrib. — Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and probably in other 

 islands of the Malayan Ai-chipelago. 



The short thick style is in the ovary often obscured by the stigma, 

 but in the ripe fruit it is vei'y apparent. 



8. Ilex sclerophtlla, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 606. Leaves thickly 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, the edges entire, narrowed at the base 

 into the very thick petiole ; upper surface shining, the lower glaucous ; 

 length "5 or 6 in., petiole "5 in. Female cymes 1 in. long, sparingly 

 branched, the peduncle very stout, the branches apparently 3-flowered ; 

 the pedicels stout, "25 in. long. Calyx with 5 rounded ciliolafce lobes. 

 Petals minute, free, unequal. Ovary ovoid, truncate, stigma sessile. 

 Malacca, on Mount Ophir : Griffith, No. 5013. 



I have seen no specimens of this except Griffith's which is at Kew 

 and the above description is largely copied from Sir Joseph Hooker. 



Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By George King, 

 M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., C.I.E., Superintendent of the Boyal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta. i-Q-t-i^^h, /9^. ^»r, /l^^^ht^i.^L, ^ f/ d^J ' 



No. 8. ^ 



[Reed. 18th May, Read 3rd June.] 

 Order XXXI. Celastrine^. 

 Erect or climbing trees or shrubs. Branches sometimes spinescent. 

 Leaves opposite or alternate, more or less coriaceous, simple, petioled, 

 rarely subsessile, entire or serrate ; stipules caducous or 0. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite or polygamous, usually cymose. Calyx small, with 4 or 

 6 imbricate lobes, persistent. Petals 4-5, rarely 0, inserted below the 

 disc or continuous with its margin, imbricate. Stamens 3-5, rarely 2, 

 filaments subulate or flattened, anthers 2-celled. Bisc usually conspi- 

 cuous, pulvinate or flattened, lobed or entire, rarely 0. Ovary sessile, 

 the disc free at the base or confluent with it, 3-5 celled ; style short or ; 

 stigma triangular, rarely 3-partite. Ovules 2 or 4 in each cell, anatro- 

 pous, erect, rarely 1 and pendulous ; or many, ascending and attached 

 to the axis. Fruit capsular, baccate, drupaceous or samaroid. Seed 

 arillate or exarillate, sometimes winged, albumen fleshy or ; embryo 

 usually lai'ge ; cotyledons foliaceous, flat. — Distrij). Species about 500, 

 scattered over the tropical and temperate regions of the whole world. 



Tinbe 1. CELASTRiNE.ffi, Stamens 4 or 5 ; the filaments slender, 

 often recurved, inserted on or beneath the margin of the disc. Seeds 

 (except in Kokoona) albuminous. 



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