454 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



practically sessile ; the base half-stem-clasping and forming a stipular 

 ridge at the node, with a ligule-like gland within. Cymes axillary, 

 usually to the second pair of leaves from the top of the branchlet ; 

 generally in pairs, about 6- to 10-flowered ; peduncles slender, -5 to 1 in. 

 long ; pedicels very slender, about -5 to -6 in. long ; buds slender, 

 clavate, somewhat acute at tip. Galyx-tvhe almost none ; lobes linear- 

 lanceolate, unequal, •! to "15 in. long, with a large round gland at the base 

 within, usually supporting 3 smaller linear ones. Corolla-tvihe slender, 

 •6 to -7 in. long, slightly inflated at top opposite the stamens, glabrous 

 within and without ; lobes narrow, oblong, undulately crispate, "5 in. 

 long. Anthers linear, acute or slightly mucronate, "08 in. long ; filaments 

 short, decurrent in lines within the tube. Ovary of two rounded 

 carpels ; style very slender ; stigma clavate, bifid at tip. Follicles 

 horizontally divaricate, ovoid, long-acuminately beaked, not keeled or 

 recurved, bright orange in colour, 1 to 1'5 in. long, about '4 in. broad. 

 Seeds about 6 to 8, obtusely angular, -25 to "35 in. in diameter, deeply 

 hollowed ventrally, enveloped in a crimson aril ; testa brown, glandular, 

 furrowed, the furrows deeply indented in the copious waxy albumen ; 

 cotyledons cordate, •! in. in diameter ; radicle cylindric, -15 in. long. 



Penang : at the Waterfall. Curtis 1775. Peeak : at Kuala Wok, 

 Wray 852 ; Scortechini 63. 



We have been somewhat in doubt whether Wray's and Scortechini's fruiting 

 specimens really belong to the same plant as Curtis's excellent flowering ones, but 

 after long consideration believe we are right in considering that they do. 



8. Ervatamia polyneura, King & Gamble. A slender glabrous 

 shrub, reaching 20 feet in height ; branchlets thick, very milky, 

 dark brown, very prominently marked by the broad scars of fallen 

 leaves. Leaves very coriaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-ovate or elliptic- 

 oblong, obtuse or bluntly acute at apex, somewhat rounded at base ; 

 yellowish-brown when dry, upper surface green when fresh, wrinkled 

 when dry, lower pale, dotted ; margins recurved, slightly so in flower, 

 strongly in fruit ; 6 to 12 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; one of each pair 

 usually smaller than the other ; midrib very stout, prominently raised 

 on the lower, depressed and keeled on the upper, surface ; main nerves 

 20 to 35 pairs, parallel, starting at right angles to the midrib and only 

 very slightly curving to meet in a looped intramarginal nerve, all very 

 indistinct, as are the reticulations ; petiole stout, -4 to "8 in. long, 

 bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade, bases enlarged, fur- 

 nished with axillary glands, and those of each pair joined by a stipular 

 ridge. Cymes axillary, usually in pairs in the axils of the uppermost 

 pair of leaves but one, dichotomous, 12- to 16-flowered, corymbose ; 



