Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 843 



spreading, indistinct, not more prominent than the intermediate and 

 secondary ; length 4"5 to 7 in., breadth 1-5 to 2"75 in., petioles "3 to '4 in. 

 Cymes axillary or extra-axillary, on filiform peduncles 1*25 to 3 in. 

 long, divaricate, bracteolate, l-many-flowered. Flowers "Sin. in diam., 

 on pedicels 'l to 2 in. long. iSe^a/s narrowly reniforni , sparsely-puberu- 

 lous. Petals much longer than the sepals, oblong, obtuse, with a central 

 longitudinal ridge on the upper surface, puberulous, united into a short 

 tube at the very base. Stamens 6, longer than the pistil but much 

 shorter than the petals ; anthers broadly ovoid, the filaments dilated 

 especially at the base and attached to the corolla-tube. Ovary short, disc 

 none ; style cylindric, ridged ; stigma broad, flat. Fruit ovoid, pointed gla- 

 brous, smooth ; "5 in. long, the calyx persistent at its base, the style sub- 

 pei'sistent on the apex. M. hivalvis, Lawson in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 6J4 (in part) not of Wall. Microtropis hivalvis, Kurz (not of Wall). For 

 Flora Burma, I, 251. Euonymus ? laeta, Wall. Cat. No. 4294. Fuony- 

 mus filiformis No. 4295. 



Penang : Porter, Stolickza. Perak ; Wray No. 435, King's Col- 

 lector, No. 2025. DiSTRiB. Tenasserim, Heifer, No. 1980 (Kew 

 Distrib.) 



This has been included by Mr. Lawson in Fl. Br. Ind. under M. 

 hivalvis, Wall., but it is a perfectly distinct plant ; differing from that 

 in the great length of the peduncles of its cymes, in the larger size of 

 its leaves, and in its fewer larger flowers. 



2. Euonymus, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, erect, rarely scandent, glabrous. Leaves oppo- 

 site, petioled, rarely subsessile ; stipules caducous. Calyx 4-5-tid, 

 spreading or curved. Petals 4-5, free, efoveolate. Stamens 4-5, 

 inserted on the disc ; anthers broad, 2-celled. Disc large, fleshy, 4-5- 

 lobed. Ovary sunk in the disc, 3-5-celled ; style short or 0, stigma 3-5- 

 lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, attached to the inner angle, ascending and 

 suspended. Capsule 3-5-celled, 3-5-lobed, angled or winged, coriaceous, 

 rarely echinate ; cells 1-2-seeded, loculicidal. Seeds covered by the aril, 

 albuminous. — Distrib. About 80 species chiefly tropical Asiatic and 

 Malayan; a few European and North American. 



Flowers usually in fascicles of 2 or 3, rarely in 2- 



to 3-flowered cymes ; petals fimbriate ... ... 1. E. Javanicus. 



Flowers in very lax divaricate slender spreading 



10-to 20-flowered cymes ; petals not fimbriate ... 2. E. Wrayi. 

 1. Edonymus Javanicus, Blume Bijdr. 1146. A shrub or small 

 tree ; young branches slender, sub-terete. Leaves sub-coriaceous, ob- 



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