426 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



HuNTEEiA coEYMBOSA, Roxb. Fl. Iiid. I. 695, and ed. Carey and 

 WaU. II. 531 (1824). A tree, reaching 30 to 40 feet in height and 15 to 

 20 in. in diameter ; branchlets slender, shghtly angled and striate, and 

 dull brown when dry. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtusely 

 abruptly caudate-acuminate at apex, acute at base; glabrous on both 

 surfaces ; 3 to 7 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed 

 above, prominent beneath ; main nerves numerous, about 22 to 26 pairs, 

 slender, slightly curved upwards to meet in an intramarginal nerve 

 close to the edge ; secondary nerves similar to main-nerves, recurrent- 

 branched ; reticulations prominent, all more or less raised on both 

 surfaces when dry ; petiole "25 to "5 in. long, slender. Cymes on short 

 peduncles about '5 to "75 in. long; branches corymbose, short; pedicels 

 slender, angled, •! to "2 in. long ; bracts minute ; flower-buds slender, 

 •5 to '6 in. long ; flowers waxy- white. Calyx-Xohe^ ovate-acute, "05 to 

 •1 in. long, glabrous. CoroZ/a-tube cylindrical, -3 to "35 in. long, slightly 

 dilated above and annulate at the throat, minutely pubescent within ; 

 lobes ovate-oblong, -2 to -25 in. long. Stamens with short filaments; 

 anthers "05 in. long. Carpels conical, glabrous. Berries globose, 

 obtusely beaked, smooth, yellow, 2-seeded, '75 in. in diameter, on a 

 •25 in. long flattened stalk. Seeds ovoid, flattened on one side, 

 convex on the other, -5 in. long, -4 in. broad ; testa very thin ; albumen 

 thick, fleshy ; cotyledons ovate, "125 in. long, 3-nerved ; radicle stout, 

 cylindric, as long as the cotyledons. Wall. Cat. 1608 ; Wight Ic. t. 428 ; 

 A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 350 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 409 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. III. 637 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 128. H. zeylanica, Gardn. ; Thw. 

 Enum. 191; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 265. iJ. ? lanceolata, Wall. Cat. 161; 

 A. DC. I. c. H. Boxburghiana, Wight Ic. t. 1294 ; Thw. Enum. 192 ; 

 Bedd. I. c. CLVIII. Cameraria zeylanica, Retz. Obs. IV. 24 ; A. DC. 

 I. c. 389. Gynopogon lanceolatum, Kurz For. Fl. II. 177. Tahernce- 

 montana salicifolia, WaU. Cat. 1580. T. parviflora, Herb. Heyne. 



Kedah ; on Lankawi Island, Curtis 237. Penang : Wallich 1608 ; 

 King's Collector 1460, 1468; Phillips. Perak: Wray 3378; King's 

 Collector 7465. Selangor : Ridley 8556. — Distrib. India, Ceylon, 

 Burma, Sumatra {Forbes 2716, 2722, 2737). 



Subtribe 2. — Cerberin^. 

 8. Cerbera, Linn. 



Small glabi'ous trees or large shrubs. Leaves alternate or scattered, 

 long, with slender parallel nerves. Floivers large, white or red, in 

 pseudo-terminal cymes. Calyx 5-lobed, eglandular, the segments 

 long ; tube almost none. Corolla large ; tube funnel-shaped above, 



