4 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



I'lor. Tiid. I, 426 ; ed. Wall. I, 447 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 78 ; W. & A. Pradr. 

 305; Wall. Cat. 2098, (partly). A, indica, Lamk. III. I, 31J, No. 1555 ; 

 DC. 1. c. 77 ; W. & A. Prodi-. 305; Wall. Cat. 2099; Blume 1. c. t. 46. 

 A. dehilis. Ait- Hort. Kew, ed. 1, I, 168. A. verticillata, Boiss. 

 Flor. Orient. II, 743, (not of Link). Hapalocarpnvi vesicatorium and 

 H. indicuni, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 618. Crijptotheca apetala, 

 Blume Bijd. 1128; DC. 1. c. 76. 



Pehak ; King's Collector 2>0'^) Curtis ?f\^h. S< Andaman ^ in similar 

 situations with the last. 



2. FEMPflrs, Forst. 



A maritime shrub oi' tree, 25-35 ft. high. Leaves opposite, oblong 

 to oblong-lanceolate, entire, very thick, fleshy. Flowers small, axillaiy, 

 solitary, peduncles 2-bracteate at their base. Calyx-tnhe campanulate, 

 12-00 -ribbed ; teeth 6, short, with 6 shorter accessory teeth. Petals 6; 

 inserted at the mouth of the calyx-tube and nearly as long, obovate, 

 wrinkled, white or i-ose. Stamens 12, inserted in two series towards 

 the middle of the calyx-tube. Ovary free at the bottoni of the calyx- 

 tube, 3-celled at the base ; style long, stigma capitate ; ovules many, 

 ascending ; placentas 3, sub-basal. Capsule coriaceous, obovoid or nearly 

 globose, included in the calyx-tube or exserted nearly half its length, 

 somewhat irregularly circumsoi&silcy ultimately 1-celled. Seeds very 

 many, long cuneate-obovoid, angular, smooth, standing out in all direc- 

 tions from the apparently free central placenta. 



Pempis acidula, Forst. Gen. t. 34. Young parts more or less 

 clothed with grey silky hairs^ the young branches 4-angled. Leaves 

 subsessile or very shortly petioled^ sub-acute or obtuse, h-lh in. long. 

 Flowers white. Capsule "4 in. long and '2 in. in diam. DC. Prodr. Ill, 

 89; Wall. Cat. 2]U8; W. and A. Prodr. 307; Griff. Notul. IV, 510; 

 Blume Mus. Bot. II, t. 43 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 619 ; Bedd. 

 Flor. Sjlv. Anal. Gen. t. XIV, fig. 5; Kurz For. Flor. I, 518-. 

 P, angnstifolia, Boxb. Hort. Beng. 91 ; Flor. Ind. II, 465. P. setosa, 

 Lour. Flor. Filip. ed I, 410. Maclellandia Griffithiann, Wight Ic. t. 1996. 

 Lythrum Pemphis, Linn. f. Suppl. 249; Lamk. III. II, 408, fig. 2. 

 Melanium fiuticosum, Spreng. Syst. IT, 445. 



On the beech in Singapore and probably in all the provinces, 

 Andaman and Grkat Coco Islands-; Prain. Distrib, Burma, Ceylon^ 

 S. of British India. 



3. CRrpTEROiiriA, Blume. 



Tree.*?. Leaves opposite, petioled, entire, ovate or lanceolate. 

 Racemes elongate, in branched panicles. Flowers minute, white or green, 



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