JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Vol. LXXIV., Part II.— Extra Number, 1905. 



Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By Sir George 

 King, K.C.I.E., LL.D., F.E.S., F.L.S., late Superintendent of the 

 Boyal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and J. Sykes Gamble, Esq., 

 C.I.E., M.A., F.K.S., F.L.S., late of the Indian Forest Depart7nent. 



No. 17. 



This contribution embraces the Natural Orders Myrsinacece, Sapo- 

 tacecB, EbenacecB, Styracecs, Oleacece, which are given under the joint 

 names of the authors, the actual descriptions having been prepared by 

 Sir George King for the Ehenacece and by Mr. J. S. Gamble for 

 the rest. 



The 5 Natural Orders comprise 24 genera and 221 species. There 

 are no new genera, but the number of new species reaches 103. 



Order LXX. MYRSINACE^. 



Trees, shrubs (erect or climbing), or undershrubs, generally ever- 

 green. Leaves usually alternate, sometimes opposite, entire dentate or 

 crenate, often dotted with pellucid round or linear resinous glands. 

 Stipules none. Flowers regular, usually small, white or reddish ; 

 hermaphrodite or occasionally polygamo-dioecious ; generally in 

 panicles, racemes or umbels. Calyx inferior (in Mcesa adnate to the 

 ovary), 4-6-lobed, the lobes valvate or imbricate, sometimes enlarged 

 in fruit, persistent, often marked with glandular dots or hnes. Corolla 

 4-5-lobed ; the tube usually very short, sometimes wanting ; lobes 

 twisted to the left in the bud, usually overlapping to the i'ight, rarely 



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