526 xxxv. OCHNACE^S. (Alfred W. Bennett.) \Tetramerista. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



"G. UMBELLATA," Hook, f. ms., from Penaug, appears distinct; but the specimens 

 are not sufficiently perfect for determination. 



3. TETRAIVIERISTA, Miq. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves very large, coriaceous, entire. Flowers in axillary 

 racemes, with large foliaceous bracts. Sepals 4, imbricate, persistent ; 

 2 outer ones larger. Petals 4, persistent. Stamens 4 ; filaments dilated at 

 the base; anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 4- angled, 4-celled; 

 style entire. Fruit a globose 4-seeded coriaceous berry. DISTRIB. Ma- 

 layan Peninsula and Islands. Species 1-2. 



1. T. grlabra, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Supjd. 534; var. sagittata; leaves 

 sagittate at the base. Ancistrocladus 1 sagittatus, Wall. Cat. 1055. 



SINCAPOKE, Wallich; TENASSEKIM (or the Andaman Islands), Heifer; Kedah Peak, 

 MALACCA, Low. 



Leaves obovate, rounded at the apex. Sepals in two series, lanceolate. Petals re- 

 sembling the sepals, but rather smaller. Filaments filiform above. /SV////- Mnirle. central. 

 T. glabra is a Sumatran plant, entered as Indian on account of some specimens in 

 Herb. Kew., collected by Heifer, either in " Tenasserim or the Andaman Islands," and 

 by Wallich at Sincapore, without Mowers, but apparently belonging cither to this species 

 or to an allied one, differing in the sagittate base of the leaves. 



4. EUTHEMIS, Jack. 



Glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, shining, coriaceous, serrulate, 

 with ciliate deciduous stipules. Fbwers rose or white, in terminal or leaf- 

 opposed racemes, bracteate. Sejwls 5, imbricate, persistent or deciduous. 

 Petals 5, longer than sepals, imbricate. ])i*k small, conical. Stam> //* ;>, 

 inserted at the baseof the disk, with alternate staminodos ; anthers opening 

 by terminal pores. Ovary Bemi-6-celled, elongate, viscid ; style 1, stigma 

 entire; ovule* i -i in rach cell, pendulous. /V///Y a berryof 5 pyrenes, each. 

 1-2-seeded. Seeds pendulous with a fleshy albumen. DISTRIB. Species 4, 

 natives of the Malayan Archipelago. 



1. E. leucocarpa, ,/</</ /// Mai. Misc. No. v. p. 16 ; leaves large acute 

 rery gradually narrowed into the petiole very beautifully serrulate on the 

 thickened margin, flowers in rather small terminal branched racemes, berry 

 snow-white. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 303; Planch, in Hook. Ic. 

 PL viii. t. 711. 



Mounts Gerai and Ophir, alt. 3000 ft., in MALACCA, Lobb. DISTKIB. Malayan 

 Archipelago. 



An erect shrub, 4-5 ft. Leaves narrowly elliptic, 4 in. by 1| in., with fine curved 

 nearly parallel veins running from the midrib to the thickened margin ; stipules acu- 

 minate, ciliate, deciduous. Sepals ovate, thick, ciliate-serrate. Petals twice as long 

 as the sepals, reMexcd. Filaments very short. Ovary elongate, acute ; style, tapering. 

 Berry crowned by the persistent style, 5-seeded. 



2. IS. minor, Jack in Mai. Misc. No. v. p. 18; leaves narrowly lanceo- 

 late, obtuse, mucronate obscurely serrulate, racemes simple, berry red. 

 tioxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 304. 



SINGAPORE and PENANG. DISTKIB. Malayan Archipelago. 



A small shrub. Leaves much smaller than in E. leucocarpa^ coriaceous, narrowed, 

 into the petiole, obscurely veined ; stipules liuear, ciliate, ueciduous. Sepals ovate- 

 ciliate. filaments short. Ovary ovate, acute. Berry 5-seeded. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



E. ? ELEQANTissiMA, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 305, is probably a distinct 



