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sub-acute, slightly constricted above the claw ; those of the inner row 

 closely comiivent, much constricted above the claw, their apices broad 

 and emarginate. Oraries oblong, sericeous-tomentose. Ripe carpels 6 

 to 8, sessile, sub-globose, minutely pubescent to glabrescent, 1 to 1'25 

 in. in diam. Seeds numerous, oblong, flat, shining. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 90. Perak ; King's Collector, 

 Scortechini. Penang, Curtis No. 1417. 



2. Drepananthcs ramuliflorus, Maing. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 66. A tall tree, the young branches as in D. pruniferns. Leaves as in D. 

 pruniferus, but slightly broader at the apex and narrowed at the base. 

 Floivers "4 to '5 in long, much crowded in very short fascicles from 

 tubercles on the branches below the leaves : pedicels about '3 in. long 

 stout, rufous-tomentose as is the single sub-orbicular bracteole. Sepals 

 much shorter than the petals, broadly triangular, acuminate, spreading, 

 rufous-tomentose especially outside. Petals with concave, connivent, 

 tomentose claw and fleshy, sub-cylindric, spreading, much curved, ad- 

 pressed-pubescent limbs. Ovaries about 6, sessile, oblong. Carpels 

 (young) ovoid, slightly oblique, densely rufous-tomeutose ; walls of peri- 

 carp very thick: seeds few : ripe frait unknown. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 91. Distrib. Sumatra; 

 Forbes, No. 2913. 



9. Canangium, Baill. (Cananga, Rumph.) 

 Tall trees. Leaves lai'ge. Flowers large, yellow, solitary or fascicled 

 on short axillary peduncles. Sepals 3, ovate or triangular, valvate. 

 Petals 6, 2-periate, subequal or inner smaller, long, flat, valvate. Stamens 

 linear, anther-cells approximate, extrorse ; connective produced into a 

 lanceolate acute process. Ovaries many ; style oblong (or ?) ; stigmas 

 sub-capitate ; ovules numerous, 2-seriate. Bipe carpels many, berried, 

 stalked or ses.sile. Seeds many, testa crustaceous, pitted, sending spinous 

 processes into the albumen. — Two species. 



The tree known as Cananga odorata H. f. and T. was by Rumphius 

 (who wrote an account of it in Herb. Amb. II, 195, published in 1750) 

 named Cananga (Latinice) and Bnnga Gaimnga (Malaice). Rumphius' de- 

 scription is of the usual pre-Linna^an sort, there being no differentiation 

 of generic and specific characters and his name of course is not binomial. 

 In the chapter of his book following that in which Cananga proper is 

 treated of (I. c. p. 197), Rumphius proceeds to describe the wild Canangas 

 as distinguished from the Cananga pioper, which was in his time, (as it is 

 still) much cultivated by the Malays on account of the fragrance of its 

 flowers. These wild Canangas Rumphius calls Cananga' sijlvestres and 

 of them he distinguishes three sorts. 

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