682 XLix. SAXiFRAGACE^. [Dichvoa. 



Buds white. Petals, stamens and stigmas deep blue. Hah. 

 Mountain forests at 2500 to 5000 ft. altitude. Pahang, Telom. 

 Selangor, Ginting Bidai. Perak, Thaiping Hills, common ; Gunong 

 Inas (Yapp). Distrib. Indo-Malaya, China. Flowers with pale 

 blue or white petals occasionally occur. 



2. WEINMANNIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves stipulate odd-pinnate (or trifoliate or 

 simple) glandular serrate. Flowers small racemose. Calyx-tube 

 short, lobes 4 to 5. Petals 4 to 5, imbricate, spathulate or obovate 

 inserted under the margin of a perigynous disc. Stamens 8 to 10, 

 insert with the petals ; filaments exsert. Ovary free, conic 2-celled. 

 2-beaked. Styles 2. Capsule coriaceous, 2-celled, 2-valved. Seeds 

 elongate. Species 80, Mascarene, Malaya, Australia, America. 



(i) W. Blumei Planch. Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 470 ; King, 

 I.e. 299. 



A small much-branched tree. Leaves bright red when young, 

 pinnate 2 to 3*5 in. long; leaflets 9 to 11, sessile, oblong lanceolate 

 acute, glabrous except for a few black hairs beneath ; nerves 6 to 7 

 pairs, '75 to i in. long (terminal one longer), "2 to "3 in. wide. 

 Stipules obovate, round, '2 in. across, pubescent. Racemes clus- 

 tered about 3 in. long, terminal. Flowers pinkish white. Capsules 

 elliptic with the two divergent styles at tip red. Hab. Mountains, 

 not rare, 4000 to 6000 ft. altitude. Malacca, Mt. Ophir. Pahang, 

 Gunong Tahan (Robinson); K'luang Terbang (Barnes). Perak, 

 Gunong Bubu (Wray) ; Gunong Hijau, Thaiping Hills. Distrib. 

 Java, Philippines. 



3. POLYOSMA, Bl. 



Trees of medium or small size or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous or 

 membranous, opposite petioled. Flowers in terminal racemes, 

 short pedicelled with 3 bracts, white, fragrant. Calyx-tube short, 

 adnate to ovary; lobes 4, small. Petals 4, epigynous, linear, 

 valvate, pubescent outside, villous inside, recurved in flowering. 

 Stamens 4; filaments hairy. Ovary inferior, i-celled; style 

 columnar, long ; ovules numerous, parietal. Stigma simple. 

 Fruit baccate, i-seeded. Species 20, Indo-Malaya, Australia. 



Leaves membranous drying black. 



Leaves sinuate-dentate, 2-5 in. long, i in. wide; 



flowers I in. long, few . . . . (i) P. ilicifolia 



Leaves sinuate-dentate, 6 to 7 by 3-5 in. ; flowers 



•5 in. many (^) P. grandis 



Leaves entire; leaves 4 to 6 in. long. 



Fruit elliptic, narrow both flowers "3 in. 



appressed, hairy (3) P. integrifolia 



Flowers conoid ; flowers sparsely puberulous . (4) P. conocarpa 

 Leaves 3"5 by i"5 in.; flowers small, "2 in. long . (5) P. fragrans 



