Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 1Q7 



2'5 to 3*5 in. ; petiole r25 to 1*5 in., slender. Cymes axillary, dicho- 

 tomous. spi-eading, rushy-tomentose, on slender ebracfceate peduncles 1'6 

 in. long which lengfthen to 3 in. in fruit. Flotvers numerous, dioecious, 

 "5 in. in diam. ; pedicels '3 to '4 in. lon<?. /Se/>aZv tliick, ovate, blunt, 

 densely ru8ty-tomento.se externally. Petals larger than the sepals, 

 membranous, oblong-obovate, blunt. Stnuiens in males very numerous, 

 glabrous ; the antliei'S broadly oblong, blunt, deeply cordate at the base ; 

 filaments slender. Ovary in the males absent: or rudimentaiy, densely 

 pilose, and with several rudimentary styles. Female floioers unknown. 

 Fruit ovoid, "75 in. long, and '4 in. in diam., bacaate, smooth, pulpy, sub- 

 tended by the persistent calyx and crowned hy the remains of 15 to 20 

 filiform styles. Seeds numerous, shining, brown, less than 'J in. hnig, 

 ovoid, sub-compressed, pitted and with several longitudinal gi"ooves. 

 Kadsiira piibescen-f, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 620. 



Perak ; on trees, at elevations of 3,500 to 4000 feet, King's Collector, 

 Nos. 5437 and 8789. Distrib. Eastern Sumatra. 



I have carefully examined a type specimen of Miquel's Kadsnra 

 pubescens from Sumatra named by the autlior's own hand ; and there is 

 no doubt whatever that it is an. Actinidia and not a Kadsiua; nor is 

 there any that it is identittal Avit,h the above quoted numbers of the 

 Calcutta Collector from Perak. Miqucl is quite wrong in describing his 

 plant as having 3 sepals and 6 petals ; there being 5 in each whorl. 



6. Saurauja, Willd. 



Trees or shrubs. Branches usually brown with whitish tubercular 

 dots, both bi-anches and leaves more or less strigose-pilose or scaly when 

 young. Leaves approximate at the ends of the branches, usually sej-rate, 

 with parallel veins diverging from the midrib. Inflorescence lateral, 

 often from tlie axils of fallen leaves, cymose, subpaniculate, rarely few- 

 flowered. Bracts usually small, remote from the calyx. Floioers usually 

 hertnaphrodite. Sepals 5, strongly imbricate. Petals 5, usually connate 

 at the base. Stamens many ; anthers dehi.scing by pores. Ovarif 3-5- 

 celled ; styles as many, distinct or connate, rarely dry and sub-dehiscent. 

 Distrib. Tropical and sub-tropical A.sia and America. Species about 

 60. 



1. Sauraoja tristyla, DC. Mem. Ternstr. 31, t. 7. A shrub or tree 

 2 to 3 feet high ; young branches with grey, faintly sti-iate bark, decidu- 

 onsly scurfy and strigose towards the apices. Leaves membi'anous, oblan- 

 ceolate, abruptly and shortly acuminate, minutely and remotely serrulate 

 or sub-entire, the base acute ; both surfaces glabrous, except the midrib 

 and main nerves which have a few scale-like hairs, the lower pale brown 

 when dry ; nerves 10 to 12 pairs, erccto-patent, rather prominent be- 



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