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{d). Two specimens collected by Mr. Wray at an elevation of 6,700 feet in 

 Perak. These are in fruit; their leaves resemble those of M. grucilis, King, bub 

 have the main-nerves fewer but bolder. 



2. Alangium, Lamk. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, persistent. 

 Fluwers in axillary fascicles or short cymes, hermaphrodite, hairy, 

 jointed on their pedicels ; bracts small or 0. Calyx-tuhe adnate to the 

 ovary, the limb toothed or truncate. Petals 5 or 6 (rarely more), 

 linear-oblong, valvate, sometimes becoming reflexed. Stamens equal 

 in number to or twice as many as the petals or more; the anthers, long, 

 inear; the filaments short compressed, often hairy. Ovary inferior, 

 1- to 3-celled, or 1-celled at the apex and 2- to 3-celled at the base, 

 surmounted by a fleshy disc : style very long often clavate ; stigma 

 large, capitate or pyramidal ; ovule pendulous. Fruit a berry, often 

 with very scanty pulp, crowned by the slightly enlarged calyx. Seed 

 oblong, compressed ; albumen fleshy, sometimes ruminate ; cotyledons 

 leafy, flat or crumpled : radicle long or short. — Distbib. About 16 

 species, in tropical and sub-tropical Asia and Africa, Australia, Poly- 

 nesia. 



Stamens fin Malayan specimens) more than 6 (usually 



15 to 20): fruit only slightly compressed ... .. 1. A. LamarcJcii. 



Stamens 5 or 6 ; fruit much compressed : — 

 Leaves oblique, membranous : — 



Cymes on comparatively long peduncleB, much-branch- 

 ed, many-flowered ... ... ... 2, A uniloculnre. 



Leaves not oblique, coriaceous : — 

 Cymes on short peduncles ; flowers 6 to 12, shortly 

 pedicelled and '1 in. in diam. ; leaves glabrous above 

 and minutely scaly underneath ... 3, A. ehennceum. 



Cymes sessile, 3- to 5-flowered ; flowers "25 in. in 

 diam.; leaves glabrous on both surfaces ... 4, A. Ridleyi. 



Cymes on very short peduncles, 4- to 8-flowered : 

 flowers •! in. in diam. ; leaves tomentose or pubescent 

 on lower surface ... ... ... ... 5. A.nohile. 



1. Alangium Lamarckii, Thwaites Enum. PI. Ceyl. J 33. A shrub 

 or small tree. Leaves variable in form and size, those of the Malayan 

 specimens oblong-elliptic, elliptic to elliptic-ovate or ovate-rotund, the 

 base rounded or slightly cordate, the apex with a short blunt apiculus ; 

 upper surface glabrous or nearly so, the lower with a few scattered hairs ; 

 main-nerves 4 jor 5 pairs, reticulations distinct ; length 3 to 6 in. ; 

 breadth 2 to 3"5 in ; petiole 2 to '3 in. Flowers in short dense fascicles 

 of 4 to 8, about 75 in. long; peduncles, pedicels and outside of calyx 

 rusty-tomentose. Calyx cupular, slightly 6-toothed. Petals lanceolate, 



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