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in P. foetida but shorter and less branched ; the branches long (often 2*5 

 in.), diverging, markedly scorpoid. Flowers '5 in. long, secund, sessile 

 or pedicellate on the same branch. Calyx -1 in. long, narrowly cam- 

 panulate, with 5 sharp teeth, glabrous. Corolla "5 in. long, cylindric, 

 the mouth with 5 short erect acute teeth, pubescent outside. Fruit '2 

 to '3 in. in diam., globular, shining, without veins, crowned by the 

 small calyx; pericarp brittle, pale-brown when dry. Pyrenes cupular, 

 without wings or ridges. DC. Prod. IV. 471 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 258; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat- II. 254; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 197. P. barbulata Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV. 255. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 886. Perak; Scortechini 1376; King's 

 Collector 6048. — Distrib. Malayan Archipelago. 



The typical form of this has pubescence on the stems, under surfaces of the 

 leaves and on the panicles. It is the form found in Burma and Assam. In our 

 region only this variety glabra has as yet been collected. Except in the shape of 

 its fruit and seeds this species differs little from P. foetida, Linn. 



47. Sapeosma, Blume. 



Shrubs, foetid when bruised, usually glabrous, often with subulate 

 bristles at the apices of the branches and the bases of the peduncles. 

 Leaves membranous, sometimes in whorls of 3 or 4 ; stipules usually con- 

 nate into a 1- to 3-pointed sheath. Flowers small, white, axillary or 

 terminal, solitary or in fascicles of about 3, sessile or pedicelled, or in 

 pedunculate cymes ; the bx^acteoles minute, often connate. Calyx-tube 

 funnel-shaped ; the limb dilated, 4- to 6-lobed or toothed ; persistent. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped or campanulate, the throat villous ; the limb with 

 4 or 5 broad blunt lobes valvate in bud and with inflexed margins. 

 Stamens 4:, inserted on the throat, sessile or on short filaments ; anthers 

 more or less narrowly oblong. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, with 2 

 short branches ; ovules 1 in each cell, erect, basal. Fruit small, oblong or 

 globose, containing 2 or (by abortion) 1 pyrene. Seeds elliptic and soli- 

 tai-y, or two and plano-convex the plane surface not grooved ; cotyledons 

 small and leafy; radicle small, inferior. — Distrib. About 10 species, 

 tropical Asiatic. 

 Flowers sessile in dense glomeruli ... ... .,, 1. 8, glomerulatum. 



Flowers pedicelled, in cymes : — 

 Glabrous : — 



Cymes about 1 in. long, laxly a-fiowered ... ... 2. 8. Scortechinii. 



Cymes from 15 to 3-5 in. long, more than 3-flowered, 



the branches lax, spreading ... ... ••• 3. 8. ternatum. 



More or less pubescent... ... ... ... 4. 8. Bidleyi. 



1. Saprosma glomerulatom. King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub, 

 very foetid when bruised ; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, 

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