430 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Carpels glabrous ; corolla-tube under 1 in. long ; calyx- 

 lobes acuminate . . . . . . . . 3. £". Scortechinii. 



Carpels hairy ; corolla-tube over 1 in. long ; calyx-lobes 



rounded . . . . . . . . .. i. K. Griffithii. 



Branches of the inflorescence covered with many closely im- 

 bricating bracts ; bracts very small ; cyme-branches very 

 short ; corolla-tube under -4 in. long . . . . .. 5. K. larutensis. 



Tube of corolla dilated in the middle ; branches of the in- 

 florescence with imbricating bracts : — 



Cymes under -o in. long ; leaves lanceolate, under 4*5 in. 



long . . . . . . . . ,. 6, K. RidleyaTia. 



Cymes 1 to 3 in. long ; leaves elliptic-oblong or oblong- 



obovate, 5 to 9 in. long . . . . . . ,. 1. K. macrophylla. 



1. KopsiA FBUTicosA, A. DC. Prodi'. VIII. 352 (18M). A large 

 evergreen shrub ; branchlets smooth, pale brown. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, opposite ; elliptic, elliptic-oblong ; or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 obtusely caudate-acuminate at apex, acuminately attenuate at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces, shining above, pale beneath ; 4 to 9 in. 

 long, 1-5 to 3-5 in. broad ; midrib thick ; main nerves prominent 

 beneath, 10 to 14 pairs, more or less parallel, gradually curving upwards 

 to meet in a faintly looped intramarginal nerve close to the edge ; 

 secondary nerves short ; reticulation distinct ; petiole short, -25 in. 

 long, ending in a gland at the apex. Cymes short, in a dense 

 many-bracted subtrichotomous corymb at the ends of pseudo-terminal 

 peduncles ; peduncle short, stout ; secondary peduncles also short, as 

 are the tertiary and the pedicels ; all minutely fulvous-pubescent, as 

 are the bracts ; bracts many, ovate, acute or obtuse, '1 to -15 in. long, 

 pubescent, ciliate on the edges, leaving when they fall prominent scars ; 

 bracteoles similar, 2 on each pedicel under the calyx. Calyx-tnhe 

 short ; lobes 5, minutely pubescent, ovate-oblong, obtuse or emarginate 

 and with a gland at the apex, ciliate on the margins, '15 to "2 in. long. 

 Corolla-tnhe slender, slightly dilated at the summit opposite the 

 stamens, I'O in. long ; mouth red, minutely pubescent ; lobes elliptic 

 obovate, obtuse, half as long as the tube or slightly more, pink. 

 Anthers oblong-lanceolate, acute. Dz."sA;-glands beaked. Carpels 2, 

 oblong, obtuse ; style slender ; stigma calyptriform, 2-lobed at top. 

 Fruit of 2 (more usually 1) urn- shaped flattened capsules, more or less 

 triangular in shape, 1 to 1*25 in. long, villous, veined, opening by a slit 

 on the ventral margin. Seeds oblong-lanceolate, "8 in. long, -25 in. 

 broad, 3-ribbed; testa membranous; albumen none; cotyledons oblong- 

 lanceolate, -75 in. long, -25 in. broad, fleshy ; radicle very small. Bot. 

 Mag. 4220; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 639; Prain Beng. Plants, 671. 

 Calpicarpum Roxburghii, G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 100; Wight Ic. t. 431; 

 Kurz For. Fl. II. 178 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 412. Cerbera fruticosa, 



