280 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



IX. 482. Sebestena officinalis, Gaertn. Fruct. I. 364, t. 76. Ehretia 

 glabra, Eoth Nov. Spec. 127 ; DC. Prod. IX, 510. Beurreria glabra, 

 G. Don Gen. Syst. 390. 



Malacca and Singapobe : probably introduced. — Disteib. Tropics 

 of the Old World. 



3. CoRDiA Griffithii, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 139 (1883). 

 A small tree ; young branches about as thick as a crow-quill, puberulous, 

 pale and angled when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, the base slightly cuneate ; both surfaces brown 

 when dry (the lower the paler), minutely reticulate, glabrous ; main- 

 nerves 3 or 4 pairs, curved, ascending ; length 1*5 to 3*5 in., breadth 

 1 to 1'75 in. ; petioles "65 to 1*25 in. Cymes slender, 2*5 to 4 in. long 

 (including their peduncles), dichotomous, lax, few-flowered, puberu- 

 lous. Floivers "4 in. long, almost sessile. Calyx '25 in. long, funnel- 

 shaped ; the mouth wide, oblique, and with 5 irregular short teeth. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, much longer than the calyx ; the limb longer 

 than the tube, deeply divided into 5 narrowly elliptic reflexed lobes. 

 Staviens 5, attached to the throat of the tube ; anthers oblong, ex- 

 serted ; filaments unequal in length, flattened below. Ovary obovoid, 

 smooth, 4-celled, ovules solitary in each cell ; style thin and cylindric 

 above, swollen in its lower half, exserted. 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 5997 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1162 ; Bidley 4561. 

 Selangor : Bidley 7373. Kedah : King's Collector 1742. 



2. TouENEFOETiA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes almost herbs, and often sub-scandent. 

 Leaves alternate, entire. Cymes scorpioid, dichotomous, usually ter- 

 minal, rarely lateral or extra-axillary. Floioers small, numerous, 

 crowded, sessile or on short pedicels, ebracteate. Calyx deeply 4- or 

 5-partite, the segments ovate or lanceolate. Corolla white or greenish; 

 the tube cylindric, naked in the throat ; the lobes of the limb 5 or 4, 

 small, spreading. Stamens 5 or 4, included in the tube ; anthers 

 oblong-ovate or lanceolate, apiculate or not ; filaments short. Ovary 

 4-celled ; style terminal, short, 2-lobed (in the Indo-Malayan species) ; 

 ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous from the upper inner part of the cell. 

 Drupe small, ovoid, slightly fleshy or leathery, indistinctly separating 

 into two 2-seeded or into four 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds straight or 

 curved, pendulous, albuminous ; embryo straight or curved. — Disteib. 

 About 130 species, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



TouRNEFORTiA Wallichii, DC. Prod. IX. 527 (1845). A cHmber, 10 

 to 30 feet long ; young branches terete, twice as thick as a crow's-quill, 

 minutely rusty-puberulous, becoming glabrous. Leaves thickly mem- 



