426 XXXVII. OLACiNEiE. [Sirombosta. 



wide; petioles thick -2 to "3 in. long. Flowers '15 in. long, white 

 in very small axillary fascicles. Calyx cup-shaped, teeth broad 

 and round. Petals hairy in upper half inside. Fruit globose 

 woody -5 in. through. Hab. Dense forests. Singapore, Chan Chu 

 Kang (Maingay). Bukit Tim ah ; Garden Jungle. Pahang, Rum- 

 pin (Foxworthy). Native name : Kemap. 



Like S. multiflora, but a shrub, with few very small flowers and stiffer 

 more leathery leaves. 



9. PLATEA, Bl. 



Trees. Leaves alternate coriaceous. Male flowers in short 

 axillary spikes. Females in short cymes. Sepals 5 free imbricate. 

 Petals 5 connate in a tube below, in female absent. Stamens 5 

 insert at base of petals and alternate ; filaments short. Ovary 

 (in female) cylindric i-celled; ovules 2. Stigma discoid. Drupe 

 ellipsoid narrowed at base ; endocarp woody. Species 4, Malayan. 



(i) P. latifolia Bl. Bijdr. 646. PI. excelsa King, I.e. iii. 

 not of Blume. 



A tall tree to 100 ft. high. Leaves thinly coriaceous elliptic 

 or oblong acuminate, base shortly narrowed sparsely puberulous 

 on both surfaces at length glabrescent ; nerves 7 pairs, reticulations 

 minute distinct, 4*5 to 7 in. long, 175 to 3*5 in. wide; petioles 

 '5 to 75 in. long. Male flowers not known. Females in short 

 axillary 7- or 8-flowered cymes "5 in. long. Sepals less than 'i in. 

 long ovate pubescent. Petals o. Ovary cylindric puberulous. 

 Fruit orange and yellow ellipsoid, i to i'3 in. long; stone bony 

 with 2 or 3 furrows. Seed much narrowed at tip. Hab. Hill 

 forests. Perak, Larut (Kunstler). Penang, Government Hill and 

 by the spout (Curtis). Distrib. Java. 



10. GOMPHANDRA, Wall. 



Shrubs, rarely small trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers usually 

 unisexual. Calyx minute cupular, 4- or 5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5 

 sometimes partly united white (sometimes absent in females). 

 Stamens 4 or 5 alternate ; filaments thick flattened hollowed in 

 front usually hairy ; anthers small pendulous from apices, bilobed. 

 Disc thick annular, or none. Male flowers, ovary rudimentary 

 sunk in disc. Stigma minute. Female flowers, ovary long cylin- 

 dric; ovules 2. Stigma discoid I- (rarely 2)-celled. Drupe elongate ; 

 pericarp thin ; endocarp leathery. Species 12, Asiatic tropics. 



Leaves large obovate-oblong, 7 by 2 in. sub-cori- 

 aceous; nerves prominent . . . . (i) G. nyssifolia 



Leaves lanceolate cuspidate 5 by 175 in. long, thin 



membranous ; nerves slender . . . . (2) G. penangiana 



Leaves narrow lanceolate acuminate 4 by i"25 in. 



thin; cymes umbellate densety pubescent . . (3) G. ophirensis 



Leaves elliptic short cuspidate 4 in. long sub-cori- 

 aceous; cymes glabrous . . . . . (4) G. affinis 



