Flora of the Malayan Penimula. Oil 



midrib very stout on the lower surface, much more slender on the 

 upper; length 5 to 9 in., breadth 2-75 to 4 in.; petiole about 1 in. 

 long, expanding into a sheath at the base. Flotvers 2 in. long, collected 

 in lax terminal cymose corymbs, 4 in. long, and about as much in 

 breadth ; the branches 1-25 to l'7o in. long, each bearing an umbellate 

 3-flo\vered cyme ; lower bracts linear-oblong, blunt, 1 in. long, the 

 upper only -15 in. long ; pedicels about -5 in. long, bibracteolate at the 

 apex. Calyx -8 or -9 in. long, narrowly tubular in its lower part, the 

 upper much wider ; the mouth with 5 broad, blunt, erect lobes, -2 in. 

 long. Corolla- 1-5 in. long ; its tube -5 in. long ; the limb widely funnel- 

 shaped, with- 5 broad, blunt, spreading lobes. Staiuens 5; filaments 

 attached to the mouth of the tube, shorter than the corolla-limb, 

 attached to the oblong anthers at the apex of their deep basal notch ; 

 anthers '2 in. long. Ovary ovoid, apiculate ; style much shorter than 

 the corolla; stigma conical. Fruit ovoid-conic, crowned by the short 

 style, glabrous, shining, 1-75 in. long. 



Perak : Wray 1084, 1992 ; King's Collector 3868, 4041, 4238, 6605, 

 10124 ; Scortechini 817. Selangoe : Biclley 7607. — Disteib. Java, 

 Anderson 289 ; Forbes 827. 



Named from its sheathing petioles ; allied to F. obovata, Wall. 



13. Fagr^a feageans, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & WaU. II. 32 (1824). 

 A tree, 100 to 150 ft. high, all parts glabrous ; young branches much 

 thinner than a goose-quill, shining, yellowish-brown when dry, the 

 nodes close together. Leaves thinly coriaceous, smaU ; oblanceolate 

 to elliptic, the apex shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base much 

 narrowed; the edges (when dry) slightly waved and recurved; both 

 surfaces olivaceous-browm when dry, the lower the darker, subglandular ; 

 main nerves 5 to 8 pairs, subhorizontal, faint on both surfaces ; midi'ib 

 prominent on both, but especially on the lower surface ; length 2-25 to 

 4 in. ; petiole '3 to "6 in. long. Cymes axillary or terminal, much branched, 

 pedunculate, corymbose, 20- to 30-flowered. Floicers "5 in. long (ex- 

 cluding the much exserted stamens and style). Calyx under -1 in. 

 length, campanulate, wdth 5 rounded lobes. Corolla salver-shaped, 

 •5 in. long, its tube narrow ; limb with 5 somewhat unequal, ob- 

 long, blunt, spreading lobes. Stamens exserted for more than -5 in. ; 

 anthers elliptic ; filaments slender. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style longer 

 than the stamens. Fruit subglobose, reddish, -3 in. in diam. Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. I. 461; Wall. Cat. 1597; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 375 ; Kurz For. Fl. 

 II. 205; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 85. F. peregrina, Blume 

 Eumph. II. t. 80 ; Field, and Gardn. Sert. t. 6. Cyrtophyllum frag ran s, DC. 

 Prodr, IX. 31. C. jJeregrinum, Eeinw. ; Blume Bijdr. 1022 : DC. I. c. 



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