Flora uf the Miildijiin VcniuHidn. 513 



carriers glandular, attached to the angles of the style-apex ; appendicles 

 slender, dilated above in a small rounded apex. Style slender ; stylo- 

 apex large, fleshy, truncate and 5-angled at base, convexly conical al)ove. 

 Fruit of 1 or 2 divaricate, fleshy, broad, follicular mericarps ; tlie sides 

 with 1 to 4 longitudinal ribs ; the tip incurved. Seech lax, flattened, 

 ovate, with short rufous hairs at the margins, coma none ; testa thin ; 

 albumen scanty ; cotyledons broadly oblong, fleshy ; radicle short, 

 stout. — DisTRiB. India and Malaya ; 1 species. 



FiNLAYSONiA OBOVATA, Wall. PI. As. Ear. II. 48, t. 162 (1831), and 

 Cat. 4466a. k lofty glabrous climbing shrub with milky juice ; branches 

 stout, obtusely angular, with pale brown papery, lenticellate bark. 

 Leaves coriaceous ; obovate, obtuse or shortly apiculate at apex, cuneate 

 at base ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower glaucescent ; margins slightly 

 recurved ; 3 to 5 in. long, 1*5 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib broad, slightly 

 impressed above, flattened beneath ; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, at about 

 70° with the midrib, straight to join in an obscure looped intramarginal 

 nerve ; secondary nerves few ; reticulations many, indistinct ; petiole 

 •5 to 1 in. long. Cymes 2 to 3 in. long ; peduncle thick, often reddish, 

 •75 to 1 in. long ; branches divaricate, '25 to "5 in. long, usually 3 ; 

 subsequent branches usually 2, short, stout ; pedicels slender, -15 in. 

 long ; bracts ovate, acute, sheathing the bases of the branches ; buds 

 ovoid ; flowers yellowish with purple markings. Galyx-\ohe^ ovate, 

 acute, ciliate, -05 in. long ; scales very minute. Gorolla-lohes nearly 

 orbicular, spreading, furnished within with long whitish hairs on a 

 part oiiiy, glabrous without, -2 to '3 in. long. Coro7ia-processes 

 flexu.ose, "06 in. long. Follicles thick, ventricose, about 3 in. long by 

 2 in. broad, broadest in the middle ; tip thick, blunt, hooked ; ribs 3 to 

 4, slightly winged ; pericarp thin. Seeds ovate, '7 to "8 in. long by -4 in. 

 broad, flat ; the margins winged and bordered by a few long, reddish, 

 applied hairs, extending in a short tuft at the tip ; testa thin, brov^n, 

 keeled on the ventral surface ; albumen thin ; cotyledons oblong, fleshy, 

 •45 in. long, -25 in. broad, veined; radicle thick, -15 in. long. Wight 

 Contrib. 65 ; Wight 111. t. 182, fig. 5 ; Griff. Notul. IV. 70, and Ic. 

 PI. Asiat. t. 407 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 494 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 464 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 7 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 197 ; Prain Beng. 

 Plants 686 ; Engl. & Prantl Naturl. Pflanzenfam. IV. 2, 211, fig. 64, c.d. 

 Gurua obovata, Ham. in Voigt Hort. Sub. Calc. 544. 



Siamese States : at Kasoom, Curtis 3246. Penang : at Butter- 

 worth, Curtis 483. Peeak : Scortechini 1104. Selangqr : among 

 mangroves at Kwala Selangor, Bidley 7565. Malacca: Mainqay 

 (K.D.) 1104. Singapore: Bidley. — Disteib. India (Sundarbans), 

 Burma (CJ-riffith, Heifer 3749). A plant of the river deltas. 



