590 xxxix. OLACINE^:. (Maxwell T. Masters.) \Plilebocalymna. 



fleshy, hypogynous, 5-lobed, lobes opposite the petals. Ovary conic, 

 1 -celled; style subulate ; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit oblong with a crus- 

 taceous rind. Seed pendulous ; albumen coriaceous, lobulate, ruminate ; 

 embryo minute. DISTRLB. Species 2 or 3, natives of the Malay peninsula 

 and islands. 



1. P. Griffithiana, Mast., leaves obovate-oblong shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, stamens adherent to the base of the corolla. Platea Griffithiana, 

 JUiers Cfmtrib. i. 97. 



TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith. 



A glabrous shrub. Mraneket terete, slender, slightly compressed, rucosc, yellowish. 

 Leaven 6-8 by 3 in., coriacenn-, glabrous, pale, concolorous, midrib prominent beneath. 

 margins revolute ; petiole \-^ in., sulcate. Cyme* axillary, erect, spicate, scarcely 

 longer than the petiole, few-flowered j pedic< !> puberalous. Calyx-lobe* imbricate, 

 ovate, ciliolate. Corolla much longer than the calyx, funnel-shaped, limb 5-lobed, lobes 

 ultimately indexed at the point. Filaments linear, glabrous. < h-ar;/ very short, sur- 

 rounded by a pentagonal disk, 1-celled ; style conic, pilosiilous, stigma obscurely 3 lobed. 

 Fruit H by 3 in., oblong, obtuse ; stone thick, bony, 1 celled by abortion. Seed solitary, 

 pendulous from the apex of the cell, integument densely permeated by spiral \ 

 albumen ll shy lobulate. Kurx refers Miguel's Gm <jrn>-',l to this 



but Mitjiiel's jilant is described as having a longer inflorescence, two styles and a dilfe- 

 rent fruit. 



2. P. Lobbiana, Maxf. ; leaves oblong acuminate, stamens adherent to 

 the corolla for tin- uivatrr ]art of their length. 1'iatea Lubbiaiui, J//<r.< 

 Contrib. i. 97 ; Wall Cat. w:>-i. 



RANGOON, MAI:TAHAX, and TI.NAS^KKIM ; TIV//' /'///. <(<. 



A shrub or tree y llnmrli, .s angular. L< nr, x 4^-5J by 1|-2| in., coriaceous, glabrous, 



margins revolute. nerves prominent beneath ; petiole .} in., suleate, rugose. (."/////, s 



axillary, peduncled ; pedonote erect, .-hoiter than the petiole. Fltm-cr* sulita- 

 \ in. Cull/.'- ,'._, in., cup-shaped, lobes imbricate. Corolla | in., funnel shaped, limb 

 5-lobed; lobes oblong, recurred. / flabrous; anthers ovoid, com pressea, con- 



nective wide at the base. l>i*k hypogynous, a-lobetl. (h-<n-;i hir.-ute, ovoid, tapering 

 into a short style. I-' mil \\l in., oblong, obtuse, olive-coloured, obscurely 2-celled. 



A plant collected by Wallk-h in Tavoy (',ii. '.HI,'!', lias the habit, inilorescence, and 

 Moral eharacti rs ;ovary not seen) of Pktebocolymna, luit the fruit is dilli-reni. and more 

 like that .described bv .Miguel under his Gonocaryvmf gracile (!'!. [nd.-But. Snppl. i. 

 343). Indeed. 1 sh< ;i id refer both Walii h's 'JOal. and Il'elfrr's SIT, K.-\v. dist. from Ti- 

 nasserim V which evidently belong to the same species, to Miquel's -enu<, Imt tor the dif- 

 ferent habitat (.Miijuel's plant is SumatranJ, and that 1 have not seen eith -r ihe 

 of Wallich's or Heifer's plant in any specimen of Miguel's. Kur/, in .loiirn. A 

 I'eng. xxxix. pt. 2, p. 72, r 'i-i/nm f (jnn-ilc to PJdebocatymna driijitliii. 



from which it dill'ers in the longer inflorescence, and especially in the i'riiit. The fol- 

 lowing description applies to \\ alliclfs plant, to which I would give the provisional 

 name Gonocari/mn / II 'dlln-'iii ; A glabrous shrub. Branches terete, bark yellow. 

 Zeotvt 6 by 3 in., glabrono, coriaoeona, oblong, tapering to ]\}\ ends, shortly acumi- 

 nate, entire ; nerves depressed <>n the upper, prominent on the lower surface; petiole 

 scarcely 4 in-* rugose, channelled. Raceme* axidary, solitary or geminate, half the 

 length of the leaves ; rachis angular; pedicel* & in., horizontal, ciliated, 1-2 flowered. 

 Flowers unisexual or polygamous? Calyx pateriform, deeply divided into o imbricate, 

 ovate acute, ciliated lobes. Corolla twice the length of the calyx, cylindric, obtuse; 

 petals erect, thick green, oblong with iuilexed points, valvate and cohering by the mar- 

 gins but readily separable. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals and agglutinated to 

 their edges, but easily separable, filaments glabrous, anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovary 

 abortive ; style 1, filiform, covered with short erect white ap pressed hairs. Fruit 2 by 

 1 in., obliquely oblong, tapering to both ends, 1-celled; rind iibrous, corky. /Seed not 



