74 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsula. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D. 2340). Singapore: Wallich, Lobb. 

 Penang : Walker 62. Distrib. — Samatra, Java, Borneo. 



NOTE. 



In Hooker's Flora of British India T. burmannica. Griff, is said to have been 

 collected at Malacca. I find however no specimens from that locality in either the 

 Kew or the Calcutta Herbarium ; and I therefore omit it here. 



5. Rhodamnia, Jack. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, 3-nerved, hoary or pubes- 

 cent beneath. Flowers rather small, pedicels short, sometimes shortly 

 fasciculate or in short lax racemes ; bracteoles small, deciduous. Calyx- 

 tuhe ovoid or subglobose, not produced beyond the ovary ; segments 4, 

 persistent. Petals 4, spreading. Stamens numerous, in several series, 

 free ; filiments filiform ; anthers versatile with parallel cells dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Ovary 1-celled with parietal placentas and many ovules; 

 style filiform, stigma peltate. Berry globose, crowned with the limb of 

 the calyx. Seeds few, reniform, globose or variously compressed, testa 

 hard; embryo horseshoe-shaped, radicle long, cotyledons very short. 

 DiSTRTB. — About 6 species ; Australia, and Tropical Asia. 



Rhodamnia trinervia, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 79. A 

 small tree or a shrub : young parts and inflorescence often silky. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved ; upper 

 surface glabrous, reticulate ; the lower glabrous or silvery pubescent ; 

 length 1-75 to 4*5 in. ; breadth '75 to 2 iii. ; petiole '2 to '35 in. 

 Peduncles varying in length but always much shorter than the leaves, 

 axillary, I- rarely 3-fl()wered, minutely bracteolate nenr the calyx. Fruit 

 globose, reddish, '2 to '3 in. in diam. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 XLVI, Pt. 2, 63 ; For. Fl. Br. Burma I, 474 : Benth. Fl. Austral. 

 Ill, 278 ; Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 468. Mijrtus trinervia, 

 Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ill, 280. Eugenia ? trinervia, DC. Prod. Ill, 

 279 : Bot. Mag. 3223. 



In all the Provinces except the Andaman Islands ; common. Distrib. 

 — The Malayan Archipelago and Philippines to Australia, Burma. 



var. concolor ; leaves green on both surfaces, sparingly pubescent, 

 peduncles 4-7- or fewer-flowered, R. cinerea, Griff. Notul. 653, not of 

 Jack ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. I.e. B. concolor, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. I, 315. Myrtus smilacifolla. Wall. Cat. 3629. 



VAR. spectabilis ; leaves silvery- white beneath or greyish when old, 

 flowers usually fewer, 2 or solitary. JB. spectabilis, Blume Mus. Bot. I, 

 78; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 479; Kurz I.e. B. cinerea, Jack, 

 in Mai. Misc. Monoxora spectabilis, Wight 111. II, 12, t. 97, f. 5, 



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