35^ Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninstila. 



9. Elj:odendron, Jacq. f. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, crenate or 

 entire. Floioers in a^fillary bratiching cymes, often polygamous- Calyx 

 4- or 5-cleft. Petals 4 or 5, spreading. Bisc cupular. Stamens 4 or 5 ; 

 anthers nearly globose. Ovary continuous with the disc, conical, rarely 

 2-4- or 5-celled, style very short, ovules 2 in each cell. Fndt succu- 

 lent or dry, 1-2-celled, indehiscent; cells 1- rarely 2-seeded. Seed 

 without an aril, albuminous. — Distrib. About 40 species, natives of 

 South Africa, Tropical Asia, America and Australia. 



El^odendron sdb-rotunddm. King n. sp. A tree 20 feet high : 

 young branches sub-compressed, glabrous, dark-coloured when dry. 

 Leaves broadly ovate or sub-rotund, obtuse or sub-cuspidate, the edges 

 entire and slightly revolute, the base slightly narrowed or rounded ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, dull, the upper pale, the lower brown when dry : 

 main nerves 6 or 7 paiis, spreading obliquely, little curved : length 2 to 

 2*5 in., breadth 1*2 to 1*8 in.; petiole '3 to "5 in., slender. Cymes axillary 

 and terminal, umbellate on a common peduncle, 1"5 to 2*5 in. long', 

 1 5 to 2 iu. in diam., much-branched, many-flowered. Floivers numerous^ 

 nearly '2 in. in diam., their pedicels longer than themselves. Calyx 

 short, cupular, deeply divided into 4 or 5 rotund concave lobes. Petals 

 4 or 5, broadly oblong, blunt, spreading, glabrous, sparsely scaly outside. 

 Disc short, cupular, thin, wavy, not lobed. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on the 

 outer surface of the disc ; the filaments nearly as long as the pistil, 

 slender ; anthers ovate, basifixed. Ovary ovoid, tapering, surrounded at 

 the base, but not confluent with, the thin disc, 2-celled ; style short, 

 stigma small. Fruit (immature) -5 in, long, oblong-clavate, dark- 

 coloured, glabrous, crowned by the persistent style, 1-celled (by abortion) 

 and 1-seeded. 



Perak : King's Collector No. 1166. Andamans ; King's Collector. 

 Johore ; King. Pahang ; Ridley No. 1001 a. 



This differs from E. glaucum, Pers, in having smaller flowers which 

 are always 5-merous ; in having a smooth (not lobed or corrugated) 

 disc ; a much less tapering ovary ; and entire leaves with fewer nerves- 



10. HiPPOCRATEA, Linn. 



Small trees or scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled ; stipules 



small, caducous. Floivers small, white or greenish, disposed in axillary 



cymes, more rarely iu terminal cymose panicles. Calyx small, 5-parted 



or of 5 free sepals. Petals 6, spreading much larger than the calyx, 



'imbricate or valvate. Stamens 3, the filaments recurved and lying in 



the grooves of the ovary ; anthers short, bioad, often 1-celled and with 



transverse dehiscence. Dine flat or cupular. Ovary surrounded by the 



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