398 Materials for a Flora of the Malaijan Peninszda. 



10. A small glabrous tz'ee with pale smooth bark. Leaflets sessile or 

 nearly so, sub-coriaceons, obliquely elongate-oblaiiceolate, the middle 

 one narrower than the outer, rather bluntly acuminate, the base much 

 narrowed; upper surface shining, lower pale, dull, with the midrib and 

 nerves prominent; length 4. to 5 in., breadtli 1-75 in. to 2-25. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, in terminal corymbose racemes, 2 to 3 in. in diam. 

 Petals obovate, obtuse, uuguiculate. Stamens 10 to 15, longer than the 

 petals; anthers small, lanceolate, obtuse. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, the 

 gynophore as long as the filaments ; stigma sessile, discoid; placentas 2, 

 parietal, multi-ovulate. Ripe fruit on a stout lenticellate caipophore 

 3 inches long, ovoid, smooth, purple spotted with grey, 25 in or more 

 long by 2 in. in diam. Seeds embedded in pulp, compressed, ovoid- 

 reniform, smooth on the sides, shortly tuberculate along the edge, nearly 

 •6 in. long by "35 in. broad. 



Malacca; Maiugay (No. 125 Kew Distrib.), Scortechini No. 1771, 

 King's Collector, No. 10461. 



A species distinguished by its sessile leaflets and flat ovate-reniform 

 tubercle-edged seeds. Kurz's figure of the seeds is bad ; as he confes- 

 sedly worked witli imperfect material in describing this plant. 1 have 

 seen no authentic specimens of 0. magna, DC, or of G. memhrauifolia, 

 (Miq. n. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 387) but, judging from the descriptions, they 

 probably refer to this plant; in which case the older name {viaijna) 

 would stand. 



2. C. HYGROPHiLA, Kurz J. A. S. B. Part II, 1872 p. 292; 

 Journ. Bot. 1874, 196 tab. 148, figs. 6, 7. A small glabrous tree, 

 with pale striate lenticellate bark ; the youngest branches dark-coloured. 

 Leaflets membranous, very shortly petiolulate, obliquely lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate at both base and apex, the lower surface glaucesceiit ; nerves about 

 6 pairs, sub-horizontal; length 3 to 4'5 in., breadth 1 to 1'25 in., petiole 

 •J in. Fruit axillary, solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3, cyliudric, the 

 apex with a blunt beak when ripe, brownisli, spotted with gn-y, 4 to 5 in. 

 long and 1"5 in. or more in diam. ; the carpophore and pedicel each about 

 2 in. long, dark-coloui'ed and faintly lenticellate. Seeds embedded in 

 pulp, "5 in. in diam., compressed but not flat, reuiform, shortly muricate 

 over the greater part of the surface. 



Trang; King's Collector No. 1412. Distrib. Burraah. 



Kurz founded this species on specimens from Burmah (in young 

 fruit) which are now in the Calcutta Herbarium. The Malayan speci- 

 mens (in mature fruit) agree with these. Kurz's drawing of the seed is 

 misleading. For it was made from a young seed which had neither 

 acquired its full size, nor its characteristic tubercles. Flowers of this 

 species are as yet unknown ; but the ripe fruit shows that they cannot 



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