298 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



A snb-herbaceous shrub, with simple exstipulate leaves, and 



snccalent fruits with numerous small seeds ... ... 1. Dichroa, 



Woody shrubs or trees with pinnate (rarely simple) stipulate 

 leaves ; fruits small, dry, capsular, dehiscent, 2-celled ; seeds 

 few haiiy ... • ... ... ... ... 2. Weinmannia. 



Trees or large woody shrubs with simple leaves, 4-merou8 



flowers, and dry fruit with a single large smooth peed ... 3. Polyosma. 



1. DiCHROA, Lour. 



A sub-herbaceous slirub. Leaves opposite, more or less serrate^ 

 lanceolate, persitent, exstipulate. Panicle terminal. Calyx-tube nd- 

 nate to the ovary ; limb 5-6-toothed. Petals 5 or 6, thick, valvate, blue 

 or purplish. Stamens JO or 12, epigjnous. Ovary f -inferior, 1-celled ; 

 styles 3-5 ; ovules numerous, on 3-5 parietal placentas formed by the 

 inflexed margins of the carpels. Berry J-inferior, blue. Seeds numer- 

 ous, small, oboYoid ; testa with large reticulations. 



DiCHKOA FEBRiFUGA, Lour. Fl. Cochiuch, 301. A shrub 3-6 feet 

 high ; branches terete, nearly glabrous. Leaves membranous, caudate- 

 acuminate, the base cuneate, the edges more or less distinctly serrate in 

 the upper three-fourths, entire in the lower fourth ; main nerves 8 or 9 

 pairs, ascending ; length 4-5 in., breadth 1'4-1*8 in.; petioles unequal, 

 from '6-1 "75 in. Panicles adpressed-pubescent. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 II, 406; Benth. FL Hongk. 128; Maxim, in Mem. Acad. Petersb. X 

 16, p. 2. D. cyanitis and X>. latifolia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 721, 722. 

 Adaniia versicolor^ Fortune in Journ. Hort. Soc. I, 298; Lindl. & Paxt. 

 Fl. Gard. I, t. 5. A. cyanea, Wall. Cat. 44J ; Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 36; PI. 

 As. Bar. t. 213; Bot. Mag." t. 3016; DC. Prodr. IV, 16; H. f. & T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. II, 76. A. chinensis, Gardn. & Champ, in Kew Journ. 

 Bot. I, 31i. Cyanitis sylvatica, Reinw. in Blume Bijd. 921 ; DC. Prodr. 

 IV, 16. 



Perak ; on the Central Range ; Scortecliini 266. DiSTRiB. On the 

 higher parts of the Malayan Archipelugo ; China; Philippines; Temper- 

 ate Himalaya from Bhotan to Nepal ; Khasia Mountains. 



2. Weinmannia, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, usually with terete opposite branches. Leaves stipu- 

 late, opposite, coriaceous, unequally pinnate, 3-foliolate or simple, 

 leaflets usually glandular-serrate. Floivers hermaphrodite or polygamo- 

 dioeceous. Calyx-tuhe short, the lobes 4 or 5, imbricate, persistent or 

 deciduous. Petals 4 or 5, sessile, imbricate, spathulate or obovate, in- 

 serted under the lobed margin of the perigynous disc. Stamens 8 or 10, 

 inserted with the petals, the filaments often elongated and exserted ; the 

 anthers small, 2-celled. Ovary free, ovoid or conical, 2-celled, 2-beaked; 



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