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80 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



f80. E. hrncteolata. 



81. E. venulosa. 



82. E. pseudo-suhtilis. 



1" 83. E. microcalyx. 

 84. E. scoparia. 

 [ 85. E. myriantha. 

 f86. E. verecunda. 



187. E. pseudo-suhtilis 

 VAR. suh-acuminafa. 

 I 88. E. Swettenhamiana. 

 E. acuminatissima. 

 90. E. Kunstleri. 

 i 91. E. pustxdata. 



192. E. Koordersiana. 

 93. E. simulans. 

 [94!. E. Gurtisii. 

 Flowers small, numerous, in short much-branched spread- /-95. E. operculata. 

 ing cyniose panicles mostly from the scars of fallen leaves;^ 96. E. nicobarica. 

 / globular or nearly so, narrowed gradually to the base or C 97. E. Jamholana. 

 abruptly contracted into a short pseudo-stalk. 



1. Edgenia FORMOSA, Wall. PI. As. Rar. II. 6, t. 108 : Wall. Cat. (in 

 part) 3609. A tree, 20 to 30 feet high ; young branches almost terete, 

 with pale bark. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 

 much tapered to the acute apex, sometimes in threes ; the base rounded, 

 slightly cordate ; upper surface pale, olivaceous (when dry), the lower 

 paler ; both quite smooth ; main-nerves 12 to 20 pairs, rather strong, 

 ascending, ratiier straight, interarching 2 to "3 in. from the edge ; length 

 8 to 12 occasionally to 18 in. ; breadth 3 to 5 in. ; petiole about "2 in. 

 Flowers about 2 in. across (excluding the stamens), pale rose-coloured, 

 on pedicels '3 to "5 in. long, bracteolate near the apex, in fascicles of 

 three (occasionally solitary), usually from tlie branches below the 

 leaves but sometimes terminal. Galyx-tuhe '6 to "75 in. long, clavate- 

 turbinate, smooth ; the 4 lobes broad, rounded, unequal, 5 in. broad and 

 about half as long. Petals '5 in. long, almost orbicular. Filaments more 

 thati 1 in. long, very numerous, spreading. Fq-uU as large as a small 

 apple, globose, contracted towards the base, crowned at the apex by the 

 spreading calyx-lobes, white, smooth, 2-seeded, the pulp rather scanty. 

 Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 11, 471 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLVI, Pt. 2, 68 ; For. Fl. Brit. Burm. I, 492; Wight 111. II, 

 14. Jamhosa formosa, Walp. Rep. Bot. II, 191 ; Blume Mus. Bot. I, 

 92 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 412. /. mappacea, Korth. in Ned. 

 Kruidk. Arch. I, 200. E. somarangensis, DC. Prod. HI, 286. 



Perak : King^s Collector 6254 ; Scortechini. 

 Only a few specimens of this are to be found from our area in the Herbaria at 

 Kew and Calcutta, and they have all oblong-lanceolate leaves. In British India 

 the form with ovate-oblong leaves is the commouer. 



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