76 Materials for a Fiora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



above the ovary ; lobes 4 or 5, spreading. Petals 4 or 5, spreading. 

 Stamens numerous in several series, free, filaments filiform ; anthers 

 small, versatile, with parallel cells opening longitudinally. Ovary 4- or 

 5-celled with 2 or very few ovules in each cell ; cells often divided by 

 spurious dissepiments ; style filiform, stigma peltate. Berry globose, 

 crowned by the calyx-lobes. Seeds 8 to 10, reniform-sub-globose, testa 

 hard ; embryo horse-shoe-shaped or circular, with long radicle and short 

 cotyledons. Distrib — About 4 species in tropical Asia, Australia, and. 

 the Pacific Islands, 



Decaspermum panicdlatum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI, 

 Pt. 2, 61 : For. Flora. Br. Burma T, 475. A small tree, often 30 feet 

 hio-h. Young parts and inflorescence minutely sericeous- tomentose. 

 Leaves membranoas or thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, the base often narrowed, edges entire ; main- 

 nerves about 10 pairs, spreading, not prominent ; upper surface glabrous : 

 tlie lower paler and reddish, glandular, midrib always pubescent on 

 the lower and always on the upper ; length 1*25 to 3*5 in. ; breadth 

 •4 to 1 in. ; petiole -1 to -3 in. Panicles axillary and shorter than the 

 leaves, or terminal and longer than the leaves ; bracts small and 

 deciduous, or leaf-like and permanent. Flowers '2 to '3 in. in diam., 

 often polygamous. Petals white, pubescent inside. Calyx-tube more or 

 less clothed with white hairs ; the lobes roundish or sub-acute, hairy 

 or glabrous. Style exserted. Berry globose, about '1 in. in diam. Duthie 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 470. Nelitris paniculata, Lindl. Collect. Bot. 

 under 16 ; DC. Prod. Ill, 231 ; Wall. Cat. 3627 ; Wight 111. II, t. 97, 

 fig. 10. Icon. 521 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. Ill, 279. N. polygama, Spreng. 

 Syst. II, 488 ; Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. I, 197. N. pallescens, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 314. Eugenia polygama, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 

 92 ; Fl. Br. Ind. II, 491. E. cuspidata, Wall. Cat. 3627. Memecylon 

 acuminatum, Wall. Cat. 4105 ; Syzygium vimineum, Wall. Cat. 3593 B. 

 Hir^ea Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 8566 F. 



In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands : 

 common. Distrib.— Malayan Archipelago, Burma, Khasia Hills, Sikkim 

 Terai. 



Various other forms to which specific names have been given appear to me to 

 be reducible here. The Wallichian examples in Herb. Calcutta of Wall. Cat. 3593 

 B and 4105 belong in my opinion to this species. 



VAR. Finlaysoniana, Duthie I.e.; leaves sub-coriaceous, panicles 

 shorter than the leaves, few-flowered, calyx densely tomentose, its lobes 

 rounded : stamens nearly equalling the petals. N. polymorpha, Bin me 

 Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 75, t. LX. Eirsea Finlaysoniana^ Wall. Cat. 

 7363. 

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