Flora of the Malaijan Peninsula. 427 



cylindric below ; lobes 5, spreading, overlapping to the left. Stamens 

 included, small ; anthers lanceolate, apiculate, rounded at base. Disk 

 none. Car])els 2, distinct ; style filiform ; stigma large, disciform, with 

 a bilobed apiculus ; ovules 4 in each carpel, on both sides of a thick 

 placenta. Fruit of 1, rarely 2, globose or ellipsoid di'upes ; pericarp 

 very thick, fibrous and woody. Seeds broad, compressed, peltately 

 attached to the enlarged placenta ; albumen none ; cotyledons thin ; 

 radicle very short. — Disteib. Species 4, found in Madagascar, tropical 

 Asia and the Pacific Islands. 



Ceebera Odollam, Gaertn. Fruct. II. 193, t. 124 (1791). A small 

 tree or large shrub, with very thick branches and stout branchlets pro- 

 minently marked by the scars of fallen leaves. Leaves leathery ; variable 

 in shape and somewhat in venation ; oblanceolate or oblong-obovate, 

 acute or abruptly short acuminate at apex, attenuate at base ; black 

 when dry, glabrous on both surfaces, shining above ; 3 to 8 in. long, 

 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main nerves numerous but variable 

 in number (15 to 25), starting nearly at right angles to the midrib, 

 straight and meeting in an intramarginal looped nerve ; secondary 

 nerves many, between the main nerves, reticulations indistinct ; petiole 

 •75 to 1"5 in. long, stout. Cymes large ; main peduncles stout, 3 to 5 in. 

 long ; branches corymbosely paniculate ; bracts ovate, deciduous, leafy, 

 •5 to 1 in. long ; pedicels "75 to 1 in. long, stout ; flowers white with a red 

 or yellow throat. Calyx glabrous, lobes linear-oblong, acuminate, '5 to 1 in. 

 long. Corolla-tuhe -5 to '75 in. long, cyHndric below, funnel-shaped above, 

 pubescent and ribbed within and furnished with 5 projecting ribs at the 

 mouth ; lobes broadly elliptic, oblique, acute, about as long as the tube. 

 Drupe ovoid, 2 to 4 in. long, smooth, green ; 2 to 4 in. in diameter ; peri- 

 carp very thick, fleshy without, fibrous within. Seeds broad, compressed ; 

 cotyledons fleshy, ovoid, flattened. A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 353 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 441 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 692, and ed. Carey & Wall. II. 527 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 413 ; Brandis For. Fl. 322 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 171 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. CLVII. ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 628 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 

 128 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 128 ; Prain Beng. Plants 670 ; Koord. & Val. 

 Bijdr. I. 84. C. Manghas, Linn. Sp. PI. 208, jxirtly ; Wall. Cat. 1582 

 and Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 529 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 1845 ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV. 2, 159, fig. 57, P to S. 

 C. lactaria, Ham. ; A. DC. I. c. ; Miq. I. c. 414. C. laurifoUa, Lodd. 

 Bot. Cab. t. 989. Tanghmia Odollam, lactaria, and laurifoUa, G. Don 

 Gen. Syst. IV. 98. " Odollam," Eheede Hort. Mai. I. t. 39. 



Penang : Wallich 1582 ; Curtis 1651, 1713. Perak : Scortechini 

 964; Wray 2508; Bidley 7178; King's Collector 1131. Malacca: 

 Griffith; Hervey. Singapore: Ridley 8083; Hullett 807, 871.— 



