364 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



shorter than the leaves, 8 to lO-flowered, setose ; bracteoles minute, lanceo- 

 late. Flowers an inch in diam. Stamens about 15. Hook. fil. and Th. 

 Fl. Ind. i, 65 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 32 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, 

 Ft. ii, 30. A. Wightinnnm, W. and A. Prod. 6 ; Wight 111. t. 9. 



Straits Settlements ; in damp shady spots at elevations of 500 to 

 2500 feet. Common. 



4. Worm FA, Rottb. 



Trees, sometimes lofty ; or shrabs. Leaves broad, sub-coriaceous ; 

 lateral nerves many, strong, parallel ; petioles usually "with deciduous 

 stipular wings. Flowers large, in terminal racemes or panicles. Sepals 

 5. Petals 5. Stamens indefinite, in several series, nearly free ; anthers 

 linear, erect, cells opening by 2 pores. Carpels 5 to 10, scarcely cohering 

 in the axis ; ovules numei'ous. Fruit of indebiscent or follicular 3- or 

 more-seeded carpels. Seeds with a fleshy aril. Distrib. Tropical Asia 

 and Australia, and one in Madagascar ; species about 9. 



Sect. I. Capellia, Blume (genus). Inner I'ow of stamens much 

 longer than the outer and arching over them. 



1. W. suFFRUTicosA, Grife. Notul, iv. 706 ; Ic. iv. t. 649, f. 1. A 

 small tree. Young parts floccose. Leaves with short, broadly winged 

 petioles ; broadly elliptic or sub-obovate-elliptic, blunt or acute, dentate, 

 glabrous except the 12-20 pairs of nerves which are sparsely pilose be- 

 neath ; length of blade 7 to 9 in. ; breadth 4 to 5"5 in. ; petiole '5 to 

 1'5 in. Bacevies about as long as the leaves, leaf-opposed; pedicels '5 to 

 1 in. long. Flowers 3 to 4 in. in diam., yellow. Sepals broadly ovate, nerved, 

 glabrous. Pe^aZs obovate, creuulate. Oaj-^eZs 5 to 7, 3- to 5-seeded. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 35. W. excelsa, H. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. I, 67 (not of 

 Jjick). W. siibsessilis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat., Suppl. i. 618; Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Bat. i. 315, t. 9. 



Malacca, Singapore ; extends to Sumatra, Banka, Borneo and pro- 

 bably to other islands of the Archipelago. 



2. W. OBLONGA, Wall. A tree. Young branchlets thin, sparsely 

 tomentose, the old glabrous. Leaves rather distant, on moderate, 

 channelled (not winged) petioles, oblong to elliptic, acute at base and apex, 

 entire or distantly serrate or sub-serrate, nerves 9 to 12 pairs ; length of 

 blade 6 to 8 in., breadth 3 to 3'5 in. ; petiole 1'5 in. Cymes terminal or 

 leaf-opposed, few-flowered, shorter than tlie leaves, tomentose ; pedicels 

 about 1 in., thickened above, tomentose. FlotversS to 6 in. in diam. Sepals 

 ovate-rotund, tomentose externally. Petals obovate, entire, veined, yel- 

 low. Carpels 8 to 10. H. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. i, 67 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 i,35 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. 1. pt. ii, p 11. 



Straits Settlements, in more or less dense forest. Distrib. Sumatra. 



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