Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 437 



Br. Ind. III. 642; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 436; Blume Bijdr. 1037; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 325; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 242; Kurz For. Fl. II. 

 183 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. I. 117 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 133 ; Engl. & 

 Prantl IV. i. 138, t. 53 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 132 ; Prain Beng. 

 Plants, 672. Echites scholaris, Linn. Mant. 55. E. Pala, Ham. 

 ex Spreng. Syst. I. 633 ; A. DC. I. c. ^77. — " Pala," Eheede Hort. Mai. 

 I. t. 45. 



Penang : Wallich 1644a. Perak : Wray 170 (Vern. "Poho Palai") ; 

 Scortechini 601 ; King's Collector 7952. Malacca : Hervey. Singa- 

 POEE : Wallich 1644b. — Distrib. Throughout India, Ceylon and 

 Burma, the Malay Archipelago, tropical Australia and Africa. 



2. Alstonia spathulata, Blume Bijdr. 1037 (1834). A tree reach- 

 ing 30 to 40 feet in height and 12 to 15 in. diam, [Scortechini and 

 others), 60 to 100 feet in height and 3 to 4 feet in diameter {King's 

 Collector 5263) ; glabrous ; branches verticillate ; branchlets smooth, 

 swollen at the nodes. Leaves coriaceous ; verticillate, 3 to 5 in a whorl ; 

 obovate or spathulate ; rounded at the apex, or sometimes slightly 

 obcordate ; cuneate at base ; bright green and shining above, whitish 

 beneath, when dry both surfaces brown ; margins recurved ; 2 to 4 in. 

 long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib stout, impressed above ; main nerves 

 raised above, 20 to 30 pairs, the lower ones horizontal, the upper 

 gradually more and more curving upwards to meet in an intramarginal 

 nerve close to the edge ; secondary nerves few, similar ; reticulations 

 indistinct ; petiole very short, bordered by the decurrent margin of 

 the blade. Inflorescence pseudo-terminal. Cymes small, umbellately 

 arranged in whorls ; peduncle 1 to 2 in. long, stout, usually 1 only, some- 

 times 2 to 3 ; whorls of flowers 2 to 3, about "5 in. or less apart ; pedi- 

 cels slender, -25 to "5 in. long ; bracts and bracteoles small, ovate-acute, 

 caducous; flowers a "frosty" or "waxy" white; buds clavate. Calyx- 

 tube '05 in. long ; lobes as long, orbicular, margins ciliate. Corolla- 

 tube slender below, dilated above, -25 in. long, pubescent within, annu- 

 late at the throat ; lobes oblong, twisted, -2 in. long, white villous 

 within at the base. Anthers lanceolate, small ; filaments very short ; 

 pollen-grains spherical with opposite round prominences. Disk none 

 or very short. Ovary glabrous; carpels separate below, joined above; 

 style slender, -15 in. long ; stigma cylindric, bifid. Fruit of two 

 follicles, 5 to 7, occasionally to 9, in. long, -1 to -15 in. broad, erect, 

 terete, sometimes minutely pubescent. Seeds oblong, peltate, flattened, 

 •25 in. long, -1 in. broad, ciliate and margined all roimd, nearly smooth 

 on the faces, furnished at each end with tufts of slender tawny 

 hairs up to -75 in. long ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons oblong, about 

 •1 in. long ; radicle as long as cotyledons, slender. A. DC. Prodr. 



