Diplospora."] LXXV. BUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 125 



10. D. ZLurzii, Hook. f. ; glabrous, leaves narrowly elliptic-lanceolate 

 subcaudate-acurninate membranous, secondary nerves horizontal, stipules with, 

 setaceous points, flowers subcapitate minute,* calyx calyculate, limb truncate, 

 fruit small globose. Urophyllum biloculare, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 

 313; For. Fl. ii. 53. 



MARTABAN ; in tropical forests, alt. 2-3000 ft., very rare, Kurz. 



A small evergreen tree. Leaves 5-7 by 1^-2 in., pale greenish when dry, shining 

 above, membranous ; nerves arched, joined by the very slender horizontal veins ; 

 petiole very short ; stipules connate, bases triangular, puberulous. Flowers in very 

 slender clusters. Calyx puberulous. Fruit about in. diam., sessile, orange- 

 coloured; pericarp thin; cells 3-4-seeded. Seeds mgulose on the back. The veins 

 are more regular and parallel than in any other species, recalling those of a Urophyl- 

 lum or Lasianthus. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



D. ?; Malacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 906, Coffea); glabrous, leaves elliptic 2-3 

 in. very opaque, nerves indistinct, stipules triangular acuminate, fruit sessile globose 

 ^-f in. diam., pericarp thick, cells 2- or more-seeded, seeds large much compressed. 

 Resembles a plant from the Buitenzorg garden in Java, marked Canthitim? in the 

 Calcutta Herbarium. 



55. SCYPHIFHORA, Gaertn. 



A glabrous tree, branches stout, nodose, terete, young gummy. Leaves 

 coriaceous, obovate, obtuse; stipules broad. Floiuers small, in dense shortly 

 peduncled axillary cymes. Calyx-tube elongate-obconic ; limb cupular, 4-5- 

 toothed, persistent. Corolla-tube cylindric, throat dilated, hairy; lobes 4-5 

 oblong, twisted in bud. Stamens 4-5, filaments inserted between the lobes 

 short subulate ; anthers narrowly sagittate. Disk annular, lobed. Ovary with 

 2 narrow cells; style filiform, branches linear obtuse; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 inserted on the middle of the septum, upper ascending, lower pendulous, funicles 

 contiguous dividing the cell into two. Drupe, subcylindric, 8-10-grooved and 

 winged, with 2 crustaceous connate 4-5-ribbed pyrenes. Seeds subcylindric, 

 testa membranous, albumen scanty ; cotyledons oblong. 



1. S. hydrophyllacea, Gaertn. Fruct. iii. 91, t. 196; DC. Prodr. iv, 

 577 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 4. Epithinia malayana, Jack in Mai. Misc. i. 12 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 8444; DC. 1. c. 478; W. A. Prodr. 424. Epithinia sp., Griff. Notul. 

 iv. 269 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. 478 and 644 A. (Lumnitzera). Kubiacea, Wall. Cat. 

 9055, A. in part. 



Mangrove swamps on the CARNATIC coast, Wight; MALAYAN PENINSULA, the 

 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago to N. Australia, Phi- 

 lippines, and New Caledonia. 



A small evergreen tree ; trunk short, simple ; crown rounded. Leaves 2 by Hin., 

 tip rounded, brown when dry, glossy, nerves few and inconspicuous ; petiole - in. 

 Flowers subsessile, white or reddish. Calyx % in. Corolla-tube exceeding the calyx. 

 Drupe ^ in. long. 



56. JACK.IA, Wall. 



A lofty umbrageous tree ; branches robust, 4-angled. Leaves intra-petiolar, 

 broad, sheathing, ciliate, hairy within. Floivers spicate, recurved; spikes 

 opposite, in long peduncled pendulous axillary cymes ; bracts distichous, lower 

 subfoliaceous often connate. Calyx-tube obconic, limb unilateral ; lobes 5, 

 spreading, with interposed teeth, at length foliaceous, coriaceous, veined, per- 

 sistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, throat pubescent ; lobes 5, plaited, lanceolate, 

 cuspidate, valvate in bud. Anthers 5, subsessile in the throat. Disk hairy. 



