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anthers on very short filaments, glabrous. Torus covered 

 with short stiff white hairs. Fruit ellipsoid, ^ inch long, 

 blue-black. Tree on the Padang, young leaves red; out of 

 flower. 



A very distinct species in its coriaceous closely netted 

 leaves. 



RUTACE^. 



*i6. EvODiA siMPLiciFOLiA, /??(i/. 0^. a^. p. 306. A shrub, 

 rather scarce, in fruit only on the Padang. Endemic. 



17. [EvoDiA PACHYPHYLLA, King. Occurs on the ridge 

 above Wray's Camp.] 



Terminthodia, gen. nov. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves alternate, unifoliate, 

 articulate on the petiole, glandular, subcoriaceous, obovate, 

 obtuse. Flowers in axillary corymbs, small, green; calyx 

 4-lobed, lobes rounded. Petals 4, triangular; disc large, 

 4-angled; gland dotted. Stamens 4; iilaments, subulate, short; 

 anthers small. Ovary 4-lobed, protruding from the disc. 

 Style central; stigma small, capitate. Ripe carpels i to 3 

 developed, boat-shaped, dehiscing along the inner edge. Seeds 

 two in each carpel, small, flattened and winged, pale brown, 

 exalbuminous. 



Species one. 



18. Terminthodia viridiflora, n. sp. 



A bush 3 or 4 feet tall, occasionally developing into a 

 treelet about 15 feet or more tall; bark wrinkled, dark. 

 Leaves alternate, crowded at the end of the branches, unifoliate, 

 subcoriaceous, bright green, aromatic, obovate, with a rounded 

 entire or retuse apex, or shortly acutely acuminate, nerves 

 about five or six pairs, faintly visible above, elevate beneath, 

 inarching within the margin, paler beneath, and profusely 

 gland-dotted, 2 to 3 inches long, ij to 2 inches wide; petiole 

 ^ inch long, articulate with the leaf. Flowers in small pubes- 

 cent panicles shorter than the leaves, in the upper axils, 

 panicles J inch across on a peduncle i^ inch long. Bracts 

 small, one-tenth inch long, lanceolate-ovate, acute. Sepals 4, 

 rounded, imbricate, pubescent, green. Petals longer, 4, 

 triangular acute, spreading, glabrous, I inch long, darker green. 

 Disc large, 4-angled, flat, gland-dotted. Stamens 4, alternate 

 with the petals and nearly as long; filaments thick, subulate. 

 Anthers very small. Ovary protruding from the disc, 4-lobed. 

 Style central. Stigma very small, cocci i to 3 usually de- 

 veloped, J inch long, boat-shaped, obtuse, green, reticulate 

 when dry. Seed very small, winged, ovoid or obovate, thin, 

 flat, apex rounded, ^ inch long. 



Common on the Padang in rocky places. The leaves 

 have a strong turpentine odour when crushed. 



This plant is allied to the genus Evodia, but differs in its 

 alternate leaves, large square flat disc, and its thin-winged flat 

 seed. There is a distinct line between the lamina of the leaf 



