1'86 Flora of the Malayan Feninsuta. 



scar. Flowers in panicled or ternate compound terminal umbels ; bracts 

 and bracteoles (or if any caducous). Calyx-tube campanulate ; limb 

 coriaceous, tubular, minutely 5-toothed, ciliate, deciduous. Corolla^ 

 coriaceous, salver-sbaped ; its tube short, glabrous everywhere ; lobes of 

 the limb as long as the tube, narrowly oblong, blunt, reflexed valvate in 

 bud, their tips incurved. Anthers 5, linear, dorsifixed by short filaments 

 on the throat of the corolla, versatile, exserted. Ovary 2-celled ; style 

 filiform ; stigmas 2, linear-lanceolate ; ovules 2 or more in each cell 

 sunk in a fleshy placenta adnate to the septum. Fruit large, baccate, 

 globular with leathery pericarp ; seeds large compressed. — Distrib. A 

 single Malayan species. 



Triscudia truncata. Hook. fil. in Benth. & Hook. fil. Gen. Plantar. 

 II. 69. Young branches thinner than a goose-quill, pale-brown when 

 dry. Leaves broadly elliptic to sub-rotund, obtuse or bluntly cuspidate, 

 both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry, the upper shining ; the lower 

 paler, dull ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, slightly curved, ascending, promi- 

 nent on the lower surface ; length 2'6 to 4 in. ; petioles '3 to '5 in., 

 stipules forming a tube only '1 in. deep. Umbels 2"5 to 4 in. long, and 

 about as much across. Floicers "5 in. long, their pedicels about '1 in. 

 long. Calyx "1 in. long, truncate, the limb minutely toothed. Corolla 

 •4 in. long, coriaceous, tubular, slightly expanded at the mouth and 

 divided into 5 narrowly oblong, blunt, reflexed lobes about as long as the 

 tube. Fruit globular, crowned by the large flat calyx-scar, about 1 in. 

 in diam. Webera truncata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey and Wall. II. 638. 

 Stylocoryne truncata, Wall. Cat. 8403. Gnpia truncata, DC. Prod. IV. 394. 

 Pseudixora truncata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 210. 



Penang: Wallich. Perak : TTraj/ 2104, 3271 ; Scorteehini; Ridley 

 8374; King's CoZZec^or 5508, 6431, 6545. — Distriu. Andaman Islands ; 

 Sumatra; Java, Forbes 2504. 



20. AuLAcoDiscus, Hook. fil. 



Small glabrous trees. Leaves coriaceous; the stipules narrowly 

 triangular, long-acuminate, caducous. Floivers small, polygamous, in 

 axillary pedunculate many-flowered paniculate or umbellate cymes. 

 Calyx-tube broadly hemispheric ; the limb short and truncate-sinuate. 

 Corolla coriaceous, rotate, the throat hairy ; the limb with triangular- 

 lanceolate, valvate, incurved lobes. Stamens 8 or 16, the alternate row 

 imperfect; filaments flexuous ; an^/iers dorsified, small, didymous. Disk 

 large and prominent, 8- to 16-lobed. Ovary 6- to 16-celled ; ovules 

 numerous, on prominent placentas in the inner angles of the cells. 

 Berry small, globose, areolate at the apex, usually 8- to 16-celled. Seeds 

 numerous, minute, sub-globose ; the texta thick, crustaceous, pitted ; 



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