374 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Sumatra, on Kaiser's Peak, &c., at elevations of 5,000 to 6,500 feet. 

 Forbes, Nos. 1853, 2066 and 2204. 



This resembles T. pnmila, but its leaves are not glaucous beneath 

 and they have more nerves ; moreover the flowers are smaller and not 

 drooping, the petals ovate and not obovate, and the carpels are only about 

 half the length of those of that species. 



5. Illicium, Linn. 



Evergreen aromatic shrubs or small trees. Leaves quite entire, 

 pellucid-dotted. Flowers bi-scxual or unisexual, solitary or fitscicled, 

 yellow or purplish. Sepals 3 to 6. Petals 9 or more, 3- or many-seriate. 

 Staviens indefinite, filaments thick ; anthers adnate, iiitroi-se. Ovarv'S 

 indefinite, 1-seriate, 1-ovuled ; style subulate, recurved. Fruit of spread- 

 ing compressed hard follicles. Seeds compiessed, testa hard, shining 

 albumen fleshy. Distiib. North America, China, Indo-Miilaya ; species 

 about 6. 



1. I. Cambodianum, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1876, p. 240. A small 

 glabrous tree. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3 or 4, coriaceous, ob- 

 lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, rarely lanceolate, acuminate, entire ; 

 length of blade 3 to 45 in., breadth 1 to 2 in., petiole less than '5 in. 

 Flowers red to white, 4 in. in diam., on long, slender, axillary pedicels, 

 solitary or in groups of 3 or 4. Sepals 3 or 4, rotund. Petals about 9, di- 

 minishing in size inwards, ovate-oblong, blunt. Stamens 9 to 13 in a 

 single row, the filaments about as long as the anthers. FulUdes 8 to 12, 

 beaked, radiate. Pierre Flore Forestiere de la Cochin Chine, t. 4. 



Perak, in dense forests to elevations of from 3,600 to 7,000 feet. 



There is some variability as to the shape and size of the sepals ; 

 sometimes they are triangular and much smaller than the petals, in 

 other specimens they resemble the petals both in size and shape. The 

 stamens also vary in number, but they never form more than a single 

 row. Tiie texture of the leaves in some plants is thin and membranous, 

 in others almost coriaceous. It is possible tliere may be two species 

 included in this. 



2. I. EVENIUM, King, n. sp- A small glabious tree. Leaves very 

 coriaceous, opposite or in whorls of 3, oblauceolate or obovate-oblong, 

 tlie apex with an abrupt blunt short acumen, the base elongate-cuneate, 

 gradually narrowed to the short thick petiole ; nerves nndistinguishalde 

 (when dry) ; length of blade 35 to 5 in., breadth ]-25 to 2 in. ; petiole 

 •3 in. or less. Flowers globular, 2 in. in diam., pedicellate, solitary or in 

 2- to 3-flowered racemes ; pedicels with a few minute bracteoles near the 

 apex, about 1 in. long. Sepals and petals 8 or 9, rotund, fleshy, similar, 

 or the former a little smaller. Stamens 30 to 50, in several rows, 



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