370 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



Imperfectly known species. 



Salacia Lobbii, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 626. An erect 

 shrub ; branches terete, covered with minute warts. Leaves elliptic- 

 oblong with a short obtuse point, entire, not drying black, 3 to 3"5 in. 

 long and 1 to 175 in. broad. Flowers 1 to 3 in each axil, thick and 

 fleshy ; pedicels stout, 1 to 1-5 in long. Petals roundly ovate, sub-cordate 

 at the base, '25 in. long. Fruit unknown. 



Singapore, Lobb. 



This is known only by Lobb's imperfecb specimen said to have been 

 collected at Singapore. The description above given is copied from 

 Lawson ( Z. c. ) 



Salacia rubra, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 627. A scandent ? 

 shrub with coarse pale-coloured branches. Leaves sub-coriaceous, ellip- 

 tic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, the base cuneate, 

 both surfaces glabrous, the lower paler ; main nerves 5 pairs. Flowers 

 unknown. Fruit globose, bright red when ripe, rugose, 1"5 in. in diam., 

 2-seeded. 



Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.), IS'os. 398/2 and 1525. 



The above description is taken from Lawson (Z. c.) 



Order XXXII. RHAMNEJe;* 



Shrubs or trees, erect or scandent (cirrhose in Gouama). Branches 

 unarmed, spinous or aculeate. Leaves simple, alternate, or rarely opposite, 

 usually coriaceous, often 3-5-nerved ; stipules small, deciduous or 

 changed into prickles. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, small, 

 greenish, in cymes which are solitary or disposed in spikes or panicles. 

 Calyx 4-5-fid ; lobes triangular, erect or recurved, usually carinate 

 within, valvate. Petals 4-5, rarely 0, inserted on the throat of the 

 calyx-tube, usually shorter than its lobes, cucullate or involute. Stamens 

 ■4-5 inserted with the petals and opposite to them often enclosed within 

 their folds ; anthers versatile, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Disc 

 fleshy and filling the calyx-tube, or thin and lining it, entire or lobed, 

 glabrous, rarely tomentose. Ovary sessile, free or immersed in the disc, 

 wholly free from the calyx-tube or more or less adherent to it, 3- rarely 

 2-4-celled ; style short, simple, or 2-4-cleft ; ovules 1 in each cell, 

 erect, anatropous, raphe dorsal. Fruit free or girt at the base or middle 

 by the adhering calyx-tube, 3- more rarely 1-4-celled, capsular and often 

 winged, or drupaceous. Seed with fleshy albumen, rarely exalbuminous ; 

 embryo lai'ge, erect. — Distrib. tropical and temperate regions ; species 

 about 420. 



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