126 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Very close to N. purpm-ascens, Korth., but the nerves of the leaves of this are 

 more numerous, the bracts of the peduncles are much smaller ; the apical append- 

 age of the anthers is much longer and the filaments shorter. 



5. Adina, Salisb. 



Trees or shrubs wifcli petiolate sub-coriaceous or membranous leaves ; 

 the stipules small or large. Floivers sessile, in small bracteolate capitules. 

 Peduncles in large or small panicles, or solitary, terminal or axillary. 

 Calyces not concrete; tlie tube angled: lobes of the limb 5, short, 

 persistent, or none. Corolla infundibuliform : the throat glabrous : 

 lobes of the limb 5, imbricate or pseudo-valvate, the flowers mixed in the 

 capitules with bracteoles. Stamens 5, on the mouth of the corolla; 

 anthers sborfc, oblong; filaments short. Ovary 2-celled ; style thin, 

 filiform, elongate ; stigma clavate or capitate. Ovtdes numerous, imbricate 

 on a pendulous placenta in each cell. Fruit 2-coccous, many-seeded. 

 Seeds oblong, flat ; testa winged ; albumen fleshy. — Distrib. Eight or 

 nine species, tropical Asiatic or African. 



Capitules in threes on axillary peduncles ; stigma globose... 1. A, ruhescens. 

 Capitules in large lax usually terminal panicles; stigma 



clavate ... ... ... ••• ... 2. A.polycephala, 



1. Adina rubescens, Hemsl. in Journ. Bot. XXV. (1887), 204. 

 A tree 60 to 80 feet high ; young branches pale, striate, slender. Leaves 

 sub-coriaceous, elliptic, shortly caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate; 

 upper surface glabrous, the lower sometimes puherulous on the nerves, 

 faintly reddish-brown in colour (when dry) : main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, 

 spreading, curving, prominent below ; length 2'5 to 4 in. ; breadth 1-25 

 to 1'75 in. ; petiole "15 to '25 in., slightly winged for half its length ; 

 stipules small bifid. Capitules about '4 in. in diam. when in flower, in 

 short, pedunculate, tricliotomous, pubescent panicles, much shorter 

 than the leaves. Calyx pubescent ; the lobes very short, oblong. 

 Corolla-tuhe 1 in. long, hairy outside ; its lobes 4 or 5, ovate, sub- 

 valvate. Stamens inserted in the throat; anthers extending to the 

 middle of the lobes, sub-setose at their bases. Style exserted ; stigma 

 globose. Bracteoles linear, compressed, pubescent. Havil. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 45. 



Perak: Wray 539; King's Collector 7850. Singapore: Ridley 

 10458. Penang : Curtis 369. 



2. Adina poltcephala, Benth. Fl. Hongkong 146. A small tree ; 

 the young branches sub-compressed, slender, striate, at first dark but 

 becoming pale. Leaves sub-coriaceous, oblong-oblanceolate, shortly 

 caudate-acuminate, tlie base alternate; both surfaces glabrous : main- 

 nerves 7 to 10 pairs, curving upwards, slightly prominent beneath ; 



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