128 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



7. Rtparosa caesia, B1. Bijdr. 600 ; Byparia, Fl. Javae (praef. VIII). 

 A small tree, the branclilets and inflorescence ferrugineous-silky. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong, sliortly acuminate, the base slightly narrowed ; 

 upper surface shining ; lower pale, rather densely adpressed-sericeous ; 

 nerves 5 to 6 pairs, ascending ; length 6 to 9 in. ; breadth 2 to 3 in. ; 

 petiole r25 in., stout, thickened in its upper fourth. Racemes solitary, 

 supra-axillary, the female longer than the leaves. Maleflotoers ; sppals and 

 petals 4, tomentose, the latter with a small basal hairy scale. Staminal 

 tube short, glabrous ; anthers 4, broadly ovate, reflexed. Fruit crowned 

 by the 2 shortly-stalked fleshy radiating reniform emarginate stigmas, 

 globose, ferruginous-tomentose, '5 to "7 in. diam. Hassk. PI. Javan. 

 Kar. 267 ; BaiUon Euphorb. 339 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 361 ; 

 DC. Prod. XV, 2, p. 1260 ; Kurz in Journ. Bot. 1873, p. 233. 



Java J Blume. Sumatra ; Teysmann, Forbes, at an elevation of 3,500 

 feet. 



Blame describes the lower surfaces of the leaves as '* tenuiter 

 sti'igosis ; " but the hairs, although adpressed, are not stiff but silky. 

 This is tlie only species in which the hairs on the lower surface of the 

 leaves are at all conspicuous. The leaves of the Andaman plant referred 

 to B. caesia by Kurz are nearly glabrous beneath. 



Order X. PITTOSPORE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or subverticillate, quite entire 

 (very rarely toothed) ; exstipulate. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, 

 terminal or axillary. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, imbri- 

 cate. Torus small. Stamens 5, opposite the sepals ; anthers versatile. 

 Ovary 1-celled, with 2-5 parietal placentas, or 2-5-celled by the pro- 

 jection of the placentas ; style simple ; stigma terminal, 2-6-lobed ; 

 ovules many, parietal or axile, anatropous. Fruit capsular or indehis- 

 cent. Seeds usually many, albumen copious ; embryo small, radicle 

 next the hilum. — Distrib. Genera 9; species about 90, chiefly Aus- 

 tralian. 



1. PiTTOSPORniw, Banks. 



Erect trees or shrubs. Sepals free or connate below. Petals erect, 

 claws connivent or connate. Stamens 5, erect ; anthei's 2-cclled, in- 

 trorse, bursting by slits. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, incompletely 

 2-3-celled ; ovules 2 or more on each placenta. CaspuJe 1-celled, woody, 

 2-rarely 3-valved ; valves placentiferous in the middle. Seeds smooth, 

 imbedded in pulp. Distrib. Species about 50, subtropical Asiatic, 

 Australian, and Oceanic. 



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