198 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



neath ; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 1'5 to 3 in., petiole '5 to 1 in. Flowers 

 '2 to '3 in. in diam., naiTOwly ovate in bud, in fascicles of 2 to 6 from 

 small axillary tubercles, but mostly f mm the axils of fallen leaves ; the 

 pedicels slender, minutely bi'acteolate, '75 in. long, scurfy. Male flower ; 

 sepals erect, unequal, the two outer smaller, more or less broadly ovate, 

 blunt; petals larger than the sepals, sub-erect, membranous, veined, 

 oblong, blunt ; stamens about 25, glabrous ; tlie anthers broadly ovate, 

 blunt, with sutural dehiscence; rudimentary ovary none. Female flowers ; 

 sepals and petals as in the male ; stamens absent. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; 

 styles 3, distinct to the» base, or united half way. Fruit glohnlur, sub- 

 dehiscent, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Seeds broadly ovate, angled, 

 deeply pitted. Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl, Br. Ind. i, 287 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 i, Pt. 2, p. 483 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i, 104. Scapha Candollel and 

 8 Pinangiana, Clioisy. Mem, Ternst. 31. Ternstrcemiapentapetnla, Jack in 

 Malay Misc. i, No. 5, 40. T. trilomlaris, Roxb. ex Wall. PI. As. Ear. 

 ii, 40. T. bilocnlaris, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 522 ? 



In all the provinces (except the Andamans and Nicobars from 

 ■which it lias not as yet been sent) ; at low elevations, common. 



The plant figured nnder this name by Pierre (Fl. Forest Coch.- 

 Chine) is obviously a different species ; for it has 5 styles, and it differs 

 ahso in other respects. 



2. Sadrauja nddiplora, DC. Mem. Soc. Geneve i, 422. A tree 20 to 

 30 feet high ; youngest branchlets dark-coloured, squanmlose towards the 

 apex ; the older esquamulose, pale, faint ly striate. Leaves membranous, 

 oblanceolate, shortly and sharply acuminate, minutely glandular- serrate, 

 narrowed in the lower half to the acute base ; both surfaces glabrous; 

 the midrib and 12 to 13 pairs of bold spreading nerves puberulous on 

 the upper, sparsely covered with flattened hairs on the lower surface ; 

 length 6 to 10 in., breadth 225 to 3' 75 in., petiole '5 to 1'25 in. Floivers 

 •25 to "4 in. in diam., white, glabrous, solitary or in 2- to3-flowered fasci- 

 cles from tubercles in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves ; pedicels 

 "5 to 1 in. long, slender, sparsely scurf}^ and with several acute bracte- 

 oles. Sepals rotund, fleshy with thin edges, united at the base. Petals 

 oblong-obovate, emarginate, united l)elow, larger than the sepals. Sta- 

 mens 25 (o 30, attached to the base of the corolla ; anthers oblong-ovate, 

 curved, the dehiscence sutural, not apiculate ; fialments short. Ovary 

 hemisplieric, pubescent. Styles S to 5, united in the lower half Fruit 

 covered by the accrescent calyx. Seeih ovate, deeply foveolate, pale 

 brown, shining. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. ii, p. 484. '? S. Noronklana, 

 Bl. Bijdr. 126. 



Perak 800 to 3,500 feet, common. Distrib. Sumatia and Java. 



This differs from S- tristyla in its rotund sepals, lax^ger flowers, pu- 



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