464 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



branches, axillary, longer tlian. the leaves, narrowed, lax, the branches 

 short, bracteoles minute. Floivers on pedicels longer than themselves, 

 •25in. in diam. iS^e^jaZs 4 or 5, orbicular, slightly unequal. Petals 4 or 

 6, larger than the sepals, elliptic, obtuse. Stamens 8, the anthers elongate, 

 cordate at the base ; the filaments shorter, subulate. Pistils 3 or 4, 

 but one only fertile. Drupe broadly ovoid or sub-globular, slightly 

 compressed, about -25 in. long. Engl, in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 188. 



Var. lucida, Engler I. c. 189 : Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sometimes 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate, the nerves and veins very prominent. 

 B. lucida, Blurae Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 184 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind 

 II, 24 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 637. B. palemhanica, Blume 

 I. c. 186 ; B. subohovafa, Griff. Not. TV, 413. B. pohjbotrya, Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 638. Hypericinea angustata. Wall. Cat., No. 4830. 

 B. arborescens, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 183; Kurz For. Flora 

 Burma, I, 808. 



Penang, Kedah, Singapore, Malacca, Perak : — Disteib. Sumatra, 

 Burma. 



This, although widely distributed in the Malayan Peninsula, does 

 not appear to be any thing like so abundant a tree as B. acuminfa, but 

 it is more common than the following variety. 



Yar. petiolaris, Engl. I. c. 189 : Leaves obovate-oblong, contracted 

 at the base into the long cuneate petiole. B. petiolaris, Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat, Vol. I, pt. 2, p. 637. B. bancana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 523. 



Penang : Wallich (Cat. No. 4831). Singapore : Ridley, Nos. 438, 

 1882. 



2. BouEA, Meissn. 



Trees. Leaves opposite, petioled, coriaceous, glabrous, quite entire. 

 Floivers small, in axillary and terminal panicles, polygamous. Sepals 

 3-5, deciduous, valvate. Petals 3-5, vertically keeled on the inner face, 

 imbricate. • Disc veiy small. Staviens 3-5, inserted within the disc, all 

 fertile. Ovary sessile ; style short, terminal, stigma obscurely and un- 

 equally 3-lobed ; ouftZe ascending from the wall of the cavity. Drupe 

 fleshy; sfo?ie thin fibi'ous, l-celled, 1-seeded. Seed suberect; cotijledons 

 fleshy ; radicle very short, infei-ior.— Disteib, Species 5, natives of 

 Tropical Asia and the Malay Archipelago. 



Leaves 3 to 5 in. long ; panicles laxly flow- 

 ered ; sepals puberulous ; petals oblong, erect ; 



fruit '6 to -75 in. long ... ... 1. B. hurmamca. 



Leaves 5 to 8 in. long ; panicles densely 



flowered ; sepals tomentose ; petals oblanceo- 



late-oblong, spi-eading ; fruit more than 2 in. 



long ... ... ... ... 2. JB. nuicrophylla, 



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