324 XXVII. LiNE^. [Sarcotheca. 



4 to 5. Petals 5, contort. Stamens 8 to 10 all fertile, connate in 

 a cup below. Ovary 5-celled; styles 5, distinct; ovules 2 in a cell. 

 Capsule globose splitting into 5 at the top. Seed i in a cell. Species 

 2, Malayan. 



(i) S. paniculata Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 282. 



Leaves thin elUptic acuminate, base rounded, glabrous; nerves 

 4 pairs inarching within margin, 4 to 5 in. long, 2-i in. wide ; petioles 

 •3 in. long. Panicle puberulous, slender i"5 in. long, few-flowered. 

 Flowers -i in. long, white; pedicels -2 in. long. Sepals 4 connate 

 at base rounded, edges ciliate. Petals 5, linear-oblong blunt. 

 Stamens 8 to 10 in 2 rows unequal; anthers ovate-reniform. 

 Styles 3 to 5. Fruit unknown. Hab. Very rare. In forests over 

 streams. Pahang, Tahan River (Ridley). 



Dr. Stapf doubts that this belongs to this genus, but it fits fairly with 

 the description of Blume's rare and little known species; however, I have 

 not seen fruit of it. 



3. ERYTHROXYLON, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees glabrous. Leaves alternate, entire. Stipules 

 intra-petiolar. Flowers axillary, small, solitary or fascicled, white 

 (or pink). Sepals 5. Petals 5, imbricate with a double hgule on 

 the inner face. Stamens 10 to 12 ; filaments united in a tube. 

 Ovary 3-, rarely 4-celled ; styles as many fr^ee or connate ; stigmas 

 capitate ; ovule i, rarely 2 in each cell. Drupe i-celled, i-seeded. 

 Species 50, chiefly America. 



(i) E. burmanicum Griff. Notulce iv. 468; Ic. PL As. t. 581, 

 fig. 3; Hook. fit. F.B.I, i. 415; King, I.e. 190. 



Shrub to a big tree. Leaves elhptic or obovate coriaceous 

 blunt narrowed to base, glaucous beneath; nerves 8 pairs not 

 more prominent than nervules, 175 to 3 in. long, 75 to 1-50 in. 

 wide. Flowers clustered 2 to 4 white ; pedicels -25 in. long. Drupe 

 cylindric red "5 in. long ; calyx and staminal tube persistent. Hab. 

 Open country generally near the sea, common. Singapore, Changi ; 

 Seletar. Malacca, Sungei Hudang (Derry) ; Dindings, Pangkor. 

 Sungei Ujong (Cantley). Pahang, Kwala Pahang; Cherating. 

 Distrib. Burma, Tongkah. 



The ligule on the petals is a kind of lobed scale attached to the lower 

 part of the petal. E. coca, the cocaine shrub of South America, is cultivated 

 to a small extent in the Malay Peninsula. 



4. IXONANTHES, Jack. 



Trees, glabrous. Leaves alternate entire or crenate serrate. 

 Flowers small, green in axihary, cymose dichotomous panicles. 

 Sepals 5 to 6 shortly connate at base. Petals 5 to 6 perigjmous 

 contort, persistent hardening round fruit. Stamens 10 to 20 from 

 the outside of a cupular disc. Ovary 5-celled; style simple; 

 ovules 10. Capsule coriaceous or woody, oblong acute or conic 



