194 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



inner surface. Fruit sub-globular, depressed, the apex truncate and 

 crowned by the minute remains of the calyx, glabrous or sparsely hairy, 

 •1 to -2 in, in diam. Z7. parvifloriim, Wall. Cat. 8320 ; U. glahrum, Wall. 

 Cat. 8316 in part. Urophyllum, Wall. Cat. 83J5? U. Blumeanum, 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 99. U. timbelhdattcm , Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. 542 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. Geniostomum actiminatum, 

 Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. II. 316 ; Wall. Cat. 9067. 

 Timonius acuminatus, Wall. Cat. 6218. AxantJies Blumeanus, Wight in 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. 145. 



In all the provinces ; a common and variable plant passing into U. 

 glahrum and doubtfully distinct therefrom. 



6. Urophtllum glabrum, Wall. inRoxb. Fl. Ind.,ed. Carey and Wall. 

 II. 186. A shrub; or small tree 15 to 20 feet high; young branches 

 half as thick as a goose-quill, obtusely 4-angled and grooved, puberulous, 

 becoming glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or 

 oblong, shortly acuminate, slightly narrowed or rounded at the base ; 

 both surfaces pale yellowish- or olivaceous-brown when dry, glabrous 

 and reticulate, the midrib bold, depressed on the upper surface but 

 prominent on the lower, like the 7 to 12 pairs of curved, spreading, 

 main-nerves ; length 4 to 9 in. ; breadth 1*6 to 3 in. ; petioles "3 to '5 or 

 sometimes 1 in. long, puberulous or glabrous ; stipules linear-oblong, 

 blunt ; adpressed-pubescent, somewhat longer than the petioles. Umbels 

 axillary, 10- to 12-flowered, bracteolate, on peduncles varying from "25 

 to '5 in. or even 1 in. in length, rarely sub-sessile. Flotvers •15 in. long, 

 on slender pedicels 2 to "3 in. long. Calyx widely cupular, truncate or 

 minutely toothed, glabrous. Corolla glabrous, longer than the calyx, its 

 mouth with 5 deeply triangular lobes. Anthers ovate, surrounded by 

 long hairs. Fruit depressed-globular, ci'owned by the wavy calyx, '2 in. 

 in diam. Wall. Cat. 8316 (excl. B) ; DC. Prod. IV. 441 ; Kurz Fl. Burm. 

 II. 53. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II. 98. Koord. & Valet Bijdr. 8, 66. 



Urophyllum, Wall. Cat. 8318, 8319, 8322. U. arhoreum, Korth. in Ned. 



Krindk. Arch. II. 194. U. repandulum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 353. 



Axanthes arhorea, Blume Bijdr. 1603. Wallichia arhorea, Reinw. ex 



Blume in Flora 1825, 107. Urophyllum Griffithianum, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 



Ind. III. 98. Axanthes Griffithiana^ Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 



VII. 147. 



In all the provinces ; very common. 



7. Urophyllum tripurcum, H. H. W. Pearson MSS. Young 



branches terete, dark-coloured, glabrous, half as thick as a goose-quill. 



Leaves coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base rounded or 



slightly narrowed ; both surfaces glabrous except the depressed pubescent 



midrib and nerves on the upper, the lower reticulate, shining ; main- 

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