•206 Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan Peninsula. 



10. Archtt^a, Martius. 



; r Glabrous shrubs or trees with semiaraplexicaul leaves. Floicers on 

 a lateral, compressed, 1^ to 4-flo\vered peduncle. Bracts large, leaf-like. 

 Sepals and petals eacli 5. Stamens numerous, 5-adelphous ; anthers 

 versatile. Ouar?/5-celled ; styles distinct, or wholly united ; ovules nui- 

 merous, in many imbricating row.s. Capsule acuminate, septicidal fi'om 

 below, with a persistent axis. SeerZ.s line;ir-subcylindiic, albumen scanty, 

 ,Distiib. Trop. Amer. and Indian Archipelago. Species 3. 



1. ARCHyT5:A Vahlii, Cboisy Mem. Ternstr. 73. A glabrous* 

 shrub (sometimes epiphytic) or small tree; the young brandies, pale^ 

 smooth. Leaves thinly coriaceous, sessile, narrowly oblanceolate, acute,, 

 entire, slightly narrowed to the truncate or slightly amplexieaul base ; 

 nerves about 15 paits, straight, erect, interarchiiig with an intra-mar- 

 giiial nerve; length 3 to 4'5 in., breadth "5 to '75 in. Flowers 1 to 1'25 

 in. in diam. ; peduncles crowded towards the end of the branches,, 

 coloured; bracts close to the flowers, oblong, sub-serralate, '5 to "7.5 in., 

 long. Sepals ovate-rotund, coriaceous. Petals obovate, much larger 

 than the sepals, membriinous, veined, pink. Fruit •75 in. long, narrow- 

 ly ovoid, acuminate, crowned by the persistent styles. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. i, 294 ; Pierre Fl. For. Coch, -Chine, t. 129. Ploiarmm elegans^,. 

 ;Korth. Yerh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 135, t. 25 ; Miq. Fl. Ind Bat. I. Pt. ii,. 

 ,491. Hypericum alternifolium, Vahl. Symb. ii, t. 42; DC. Prodr. i, 

 445 ; Wall. Cat. 4806. 



In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 

 .Distrib. The Malayan Archipelago. 

 . ** Note on the fruit of Xanthophyllum Scortechinii, King. 



Since the pages describing the genus Xanthophjllum were printed 

 off, I have received from Mr. Curtis, of the Forest Department, Penang,. 

 complete specimens of this species ; and I am therefore now able to 

 add to the account of it given on p. 140 the following description of the 

 young fruit. 



Fruit globular or ovoid'globular, "75 to 1 in. in diam., shortly apicu- 

 late, smooth, shining ; the pericarp very thick. 



Ripe fruit is still a desideratum. 



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