90 Flora of the Malayan Feninsula. 



blunt sub-erect lobes. Infrufescence the size of a large pea. Morinda 

 speciosa, Wall. Cat. 8436; Kurz For. Fl. Burma, II. 62. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3046; Mamgay (K.D.) 918/2. Perak : 

 Scortechini 668 ; Ridley 7197 ; Wray 2897, 4008 ; King's Collector 495, 

 5967. — DiSTRiB. Burma. 



var. elongata King & Gamble : inflorescence 2 to 6 in. long ; flowers 

 mostly in threes. 



Welleslet Province : Ridley 7010. Pahang : Ridley 2193, 5834. 



Perak: King's Collector d9-2,Q ; Ridley 9710; Scortechini 106. — Distrib. 



Sumatra. 



43. Prismatomeris, Thwaites. 



Shrubs with compressed 4- angled branches. Leaves sub-coriaceous ; 

 stipules 1- or 2-cuspidate. Floivers unisexual, usually on slender pedi- 

 cels, in sub-umbellate axillary and terminal, sometimes pedunculate 

 fascicles. Calyx-tube in the male flowers small, turbinate; in the female 

 longer, obovoid, persistent; limb cupular. C orolla-ttihe cylindric, with 

 glabrous throat ; lobes of the limb 4 or 5, spreading, valvate in bud. 

 Stamens included in the corolla-tube and equal in number with the lobes 

 of the limb ; dorsifixed near their bases by short filaments. Ovary 2- 

 celled ; style filiform, with 2 linear or lanceolate arms ; ovules solitary in 

 each cell, attached above the middle of the septum. Berry small, 1-cell- 

 od, 1-2-seeded. Seed sub-globose, peltate, deeply concave in the ventral 

 surface; testa membranous; embryo small ; cotyledons reniform ; radicle 

 inferior. — Distrib. 3 or 4 species, in tropical India, Ceylon and Malaya. 



Flowers on rather long slender pedicels ... ... 1 P. alhidiflora. 



Flowers sub-sessile or sessile ... ... ... 2 P. suhsessilis. 



1. Prismatomeris albidiflora, Thw. in Hook. Kew Journ. VIII. 

 268, t. VII. f. A. An evergreen shrub or small tree, glabrous; young 

 branches thicker than a crow-quill, pale. Leaves narrowly elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes oblauceolate, the apex much acuminate, 

 the base much narrowed ; both surfaces pale-greenish or yellowish- 

 brown, and rather dull wheu dry; the lower reticulate; main-nerves 5 

 to 7 pairs, curved, spreading and interarching about a line from the 

 edge; length 2*5 to 4'5 in.; breadth -75 to 1*5 in. ; petioles "1 to "2 in.; 

 stipules small, fugacious. Flowers usually in sessile fascicles, rarely in 

 pedunculate umbels ; pedicels "3 to "75 in. long, ebracteolate, filiform. 

 Calyx -05 to "1 in. long. Corolla white; the tube '5 to *75 in. long, 

 narrowly funnel-shaped, the lobes of the limb narrowly oblong, blunt, 

 nearly as long as the tube, spreading. Fruit globose or ovoid, smooth, 

 •25 in. in diam. Thwaites Enum. PL Cejl. ir>4, 421 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. 

 Or. t. 93 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 159 ; Trimen Fl. Ceylon, II. 355. 



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