418 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



clavate -S in. long, the tip ovate ; flowers yellowish-white, fragrant. 

 Calyx deeply 5-cleft ; lobes linear, acute, '06 in. long, pubescent, ciliate 

 on the "margins. Corolla-tuhQ narrowly cylindric, slightly dilated near 

 the top opposite the stamens, contracted at the throat which is naked 

 but furnished with an annular fold within, glabrous without, puberulous 

 below the stamens within ; lobes oblong, broad, "125 in. long, recurved. 

 Stamens inserted below the throat of the tube ; anthers lanceolate, 

 ■05 in. long ; filaments as long, slender. Dish of 5 minute very villous 

 scales, surrounding the ovary and almost adherent. Ovary of 2 distinct 

 carpels, ovoid, glabrous ; style "15 to "2 in. long, very slender ; stigma 

 oblong, apiculus bifid. Fruit of 1 or 2 pedicellate drupes ; the pedicels 

 •3 to '5 in. long ; drupes '5 in. long, "3 in. broad, ellipsoid, shortly 

 apiculate ; pericarp thin, striate. Seed solitary, -3 to '5 in. long, -2 to 

 •3 in. broad, ellipsoid, deeply cleft on one side where it is attached to 

 the placenta ; testa membranous ; albumen horny, deeply ruminate, 

 and presenting closely packed horizontal lamellae ; cotyledons fiat, 

 oblong, -075 to •! in. long ; radicle cylindric, stout, '15 in. long. 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 635. A. Gynopogon, Syst. Veg. IV. 440; 

 Wall. Cat. 1605. A. quinata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 407, fide Stapf in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, IV. 207. 



Kedah : at Gunong Eaya, Curtis 2547. Penang : Curtis 2881, 

 3088. Peeak : Bidley 7177 ; Cantley. Bindings : Pangkor, at Eajah 

 Itam, Curtis 1622. Malacca : cultivated, Maingay (K.D.) 1054. 

 SiNGAPOEE : Wallich 1605 ; Murton 12 ; Bidley 1801, 4427, 8905.— 

 DiSTBiB. Sumatra, Borneo [Haviland 2176, flowers rather longer 

 than type). 



3. Alyxia odoeata. Wall. Cat. 1606 (1829). A climbing shrub, 

 with smooth very dark brown bark ; young branches thinner than a 

 goose-quill, 4-angled, shining, dark red-brown when dry. Leaves 

 coriaceous, opposite or in whorls of 3 to 4 ; oblanceolate or oblong- 

 oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute at apex, narrowed at the base ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, pale brown when dry, the upper shining, the lower 

 rather dull ; margins recurved ; 2 to 5 in. long, 1 to 1*5 in. broad ; mid- 

 rib stout, impressed above, raised and sharp beneath ; main nerves 

 extremely numerous, perhaps 25 to 40 in number, but difficult to 

 distinguish from the equally numerous secondary nerves, which are 

 branched and often recurrent, usually at an angle of 80° with the mid- 

 rib and straight to join an intramarginal nerve close to the edge, raised 

 but faint on the upper surface, almost invisible on the lower ; petiole 

 •2 to '3 in. long, bordered by the decurrent margin of the blade. Cymes 

 axillary, about -5 in. long, including the short angled peduncle, few- 

 flowered ; pedicels -06 in. long, angular, pubescent ; bracts lanceolate ; 



