Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 429 



coriaceous, ovate ; tube about equal to lobes, Co?-o//«-tube cylindric, 

 about -15 in. long, glabrous within ; lobes spreading, oblong, as long as 

 tube or rather longer. Drupes 2 to 2-5 in. long, 1-75 in. broad, slightly 

 recurved, yellow, obliquely ovoid. Seeds large, flat. A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 

 356 ; Wall. Cat. 1584 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. CLVIII. ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 



III. 638 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 129, t. 60. 0. saluhris, Blume Mus. 

 Bot. I. 158 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 172. Cerbera salutaris, Lour. Fl. Cochin- 

 ch. 1. 163 ; Blume Bijdi'. 1033. C. parviflora Wall. Cat. 1584. C. oppo- 

 sitifolia Lam. Enc. I. 62 ; A. DC. I. c. 354. C. platysperma, Gaertn. 

 Fruct. II. 193. Lactaria salubris, Eumph. Herb. Amb. II. 255, t. 84 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 415. Calpicarpum Lamarckii, G. Don Gen. Syst. 



IV. 100. 



Singapore : Wallich 1584. — Disteib. Andaman Islands, Ceylon, 

 Mascarene Islands, Malay Archipelago. 



A plant of the tidal creeks, "more decidedly maritime than Cerbera Odollam" 

 (Trimen). The milky juice is thick and viscid. The leaves as shown in Trimen's 

 plate are not at all characteristic. 



10. KoPsiA, Blume. 

 Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, membranous or sub- 

 coriaceous, penniveined. Flowers white or pink, in short terminal 

 cymes ; the rachis often bearing imbricated bracts. Calyx small, 

 5-partite, eglandular within. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube very slender, 

 only sHghtly dilated opposite the stamens, without scales at the mouth, 

 pilose within ; lobes twisted, overlapping to the right. Stamens 

 near the top of the tube ; anthers acute, cells rounded at the base. 

 Disk of 2 glands alternating with the carpels. Carpels 2, distinct ; 

 style filiform ; stigma thickened, with a short apiculus ; ovules 2 in each 

 carpel, 1 on either side of a thick placenta. Fruit of 2 obovoid or 

 obliquely quadrate drupes or capsules, furrowed on the anterior face ; 

 pericarp subcoriaceous, 1-seeded, or 2-celled by the intruded placenta 

 and two-seeded. Seeds oblong ; testa membranous ; albumen none ; 

 cotyledons usually thick.— Distrib. About 12 species of the Malay 

 Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Tube of corolla dilated at the top : — 



Branches of the inflorescence with rather distant bracts : — 

 Leaves usually more than 5 in. long and 2 in. broad : — 

 Cymes much-branched, many-fiowered ; lobes of corolla 

 broad .. .. .. .. 1. K. fruticosa y&i. albijlora. 



Cymes little-branched, few-flowered ; lobes of corolla 



narrow . . . . . . . . .. 2. K. paucifiora. 



Leaves usually under 5 in. long and 2 in. broad : — 



