344 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



long-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, acuminate, remotely and obscurely 



serrate, or entire, the base cuneate ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, impressed 

 on the upper surface wlien dry ; lencrth 4 to 6 in., bieadth 1"35 to 2"5 

 in., petioles '3 to '15 in. Flowers 'n\ fascicles of 2 or 3 from the axils 

 of leaves or of fallen leaves, sometimes from a common peduncle 1 to 

 2 in. long: peduncles slender, "5 in. long, (much longer in fruit). 

 Sepals 5, small, rotund. Petals 5, broadly oblong, much larger than the 

 sepals, fimbriate. Statnens 5, the antlier cells divaricate, the connective 

 thick. Ovary conical. Fruit obovate or pyriform, deeply 5-lobed, '75 

 in. long. Benn. in Horsf. PI. Jav. Rar. 13, t. 28 ; Hassk in Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Gesch. x. 149 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 588 ; Hook fil. 

 Fl. Br. Iiid. I, 607 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 249. E. sumatranns, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 512. E. sphaerocarpus, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 

 229. E. timorensis, Zipp. ex Spanoghe.in Linnaea XV, (1841) 186. 



In all the Provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 

 DiSTEiB. Burma, the Malayan Archipelago. 



A widely distributed species, varying very little. The form dis- 

 tino-uished as E. sumatranns by ]\Iiquel has rather longer fruit than 

 usual, and its leaves are more distinctly seri-ate. 



2. EuONYMUS Wkayi, n. sp. King. A small tree; young bi'anches 

 terete, smooth, dark-colouied when dry. Leaves diS in E.javnnicus, hui 

 the main nerves less prominent. Cymes axillary or terminal, long- 

 pedunculate, very lax, 3 to 4 in. across; the branches filiform, divaricate, 

 12- to 20-flowered, braoteolate at the base ; the peduncles slender, 1"5 to 

 2 in. long. Flowers nearly '25 in. in diam. on slender minutely braoteo- 

 late pedicels '25 to 'SS in long. Sepals 5, large, rotund, spreading, 

 concave, glabrescent, the edges membranous. Petals 6, not much 

 larger than the sepals, rotund, clawed ; the edges incurved, undulate 

 but not fimbriate, minutely puberulous, green with dull crimson veins. 

 Anthers 5, short, with globular cells opening upwards, the connective 

 orbicular. Disc thick, fleshy, obtusely 6-lobed. Ovury sunk in the 

 disc, broad with a conical apex ; stigma capitate, small. Fruit shortly 

 and broadly pyriform, deeply 5-lobed, the calyx persistent at its much 

 contracted base, "75 in. long and nearly as broad at the apex. 



Perak : on Gunong Batu Pateli, elevat. 4,500 feet ; Wray No. 403 

 Pahang : Kota Glanggi, Uidley No. 2652. 



3. Gltptopetalum, Thwaites. 



Erect shrubs or small trees, glabrous. Leaves opposite, petioled, 

 ex-stipulate. Cymes 3-or more-flowered. Calyx with 4 short spreading 

 lobes. Petals 4, each with 2 pit-like depressions on the upper surface. 

 Stamens 4, inserted above the disc ; the connective dilated ; anther-cells 



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