120 King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. Xo. 4, 



Very close to X. purpurascens, Korth., but the nerves of the leaves of this are 

 more numerous, the bracts of the peduncles are much smaller • the apical append- 

 age of the anthers is much longer and the filaments shorter, 



5. Adina, Salisb. 



Trees or shrubs witE petiolate sub- coriaceous or membranous leaves; 

 the stipules small or large. Flowers sessile, in small bracteolate capitules. 

 Peduncles in large or small panicles, or solitary, terminal or axillary. 

 Calyces not concrete; tbe tube augled : lobes of the limb 5, short, 

 persistent, or none. Corolla inf'undibuliform : the throat glabrous: 

 lobes of the limb 5, imbricate or pseudo-valvate, tbe flowers mixed in the 

 capitules with bracteoles. Stamens 5, on the mouth of the corolla; 

 anthers short, oblong; filaments short. Ovary 2-celled ; style thin, 

 filiform, elongate ; stigma clavate or capitate. Ovules numerous, imbricate 

 on a pendulous placenta in each cell. Fruit 2-coccous, many-seeded. 

 Seeds oblong, flat ; testa winged ; albumen fleshy. — DlSTEiB. Eight or 

 nine species, tropical Asiatic or African. 



Capitules in threes on axillary peduncles ; stigma globose... 1. A. ruhescens. 

 Capitules in large lax usually terminal panicles ; stigma 



clavate .„ ... ... ... ... 2. A.polycepTxala. 



1. Adina rubescens, Hemsl. in Journ. Bot. XXV. (1887), 204. 

 A tree 60 to 80 feet high ; young branches pale, striate, slender. Leaves 

 sub-coriaceous, elliptic, shortly caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate ; 

 upper surface glabrous, the lower sometimes puberulous on the nerves, 

 faintly reddish-brown in colour (when dry) : main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, 

 spreading, curving, prominent below ; length 2'5 to 4 in. ; breadth 1*25 

 to 1*75 in. ; petiole '15 to '25 in., slightly winged for half its length ; 

 stipules small bifid. Capitules about '4 in. in diam. when in flower, in 

 short, pedunculate, trichotomous, pubescent panicles, much shorter 

 than the leaves. Calyx pubescent ; the lobes very short, oblong. 

 Corolla-tube 1 in. long, hairy outside ; its lobes 4 or 5, ovate, sub- 

 valvate. Stamens inserted in the throat; anthers extending to the 

 middle of the lobes, sub-setose at their bases. Style exserted ; stigma 

 globose. Bracteoles linear, compressed, pubescent. Havil. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 45. 



Peeak : Wray 539 ; King's Collector 7850. Singapore : Ridley 

 10458. Penang : Curtis 369. 



2. Adixa poltcephala, Benth. PL Hongkong 146. A small tree; 

 the young branches sub-compressed, slender, striate, at first dark but 

 becoming pale. Leaves sub-coriaceous, oblong-oblanceolate. shortly 

 caudate-acuminate, the base alternate; both surfaces glabrous : main- 

 nerves 7 to 10 pairs, curving upwards, slightly prominent beneath; 



