836 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



style slender ; stigmas 2, short. Drupe nearly globose, shining, black, 

 3 in. in diam., with 4 to 1 pyrenes ; pyrenes convex without; the endo- 

 carp crustaceous. Seeds conform to the drupe ; testa membranous ; 

 cotyledons fleshy. Gaertn. Fruct. I. 271, t. 57, fig. 1 ; Lamk. 111. t. 544 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 1796 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 667 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 200 ; Wight Ic. t. 1471 (?) ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. CLXXIII., and 

 Anal. XXII. fig. 1; Brandis For. Fl. 363; Kurz For. Fl. II. 267; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 876 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 361 ; Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 594 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 432 ; Prain Beng. Plants 

 835. G. viscosum, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 25 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1805 ; Bot. 

 Eeg. t. 629. G. cordatum, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 103 ; Schauer I. c. 674. 

 Volkameria infortunata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 59. Glerodendron, Linn. 

 Fl. Zeyl. 232 ; Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 66. 



Siamese States : Poongah, Curtis 2949. Singapoee : Schom- 

 burgk 106. — Disteib. India, Burma, Ceylon, Java, Moluccas. 



We have not quoted " Peragu," Rheede Hort. Mai. II. t. 25, which Clarke & 

 Miquel consider to be this species. Schauer quotes it under C. villosum, and it seems 

 to us to resemble that species more closely in the leaves and calyx. G. villosum has 

 not hitherto been recorded from the Western Peninsula, but Gamble has specimens 

 collected in the Wynaad regioa of the Nilgiris which seem to be it and not G. infortu- 

 natum. We do not feel very sure that the plant figured in Wight Ic. t. 1471 is not 

 G. villosum rather than G. infortunatum. 



11. Cleeodendron villosum, Blume Bijdr. 811 (1826). A shrub, 

 usually about 3 to 5 ft. high (10 to 15 ft.. King's Gollector; 15 to 20 ft., 

 Kurz) ; branchlets stout, obtusely quadrangular, densely tawny-villous, 

 channelled on the sides. Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous ; ovate acuminate 

 at apex, cordate or truncate at base, sometimes slightly cuneate ; both 

 surfaces tawny-villous or velvety tomentose, those of young leaves 

 white-silky ; margins entire ; 4 to 8 in. long, 3 to 5 in. broad ; midrib 

 stout, prominent ; main nerves 5 to 6 pairs, the lowest pair from the 

 base spreading at right angles to the midrib with about 8 to 10 nerves 

 from the lower side, the next pair from close above it curving upwards 

 with also about 8 to 10 nerves from the lower side, the rest more dis- 

 tant and similarly curving ; transverse nervules distant, pale ; reticu- 

 lations obscure; petiole 2 to 6 in. long, densely tawny-pubescent. 

 Panicle terminal, pyramidal, thyrsoid, spreading, reaching 4 to 7 in. 

 long and 6 in. broad, densely tawny-pubescent ; branches long pedun- 

 cled, ending in trichotomous cymes of rather few flowers; bracts leafy, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, persistent ; bracteoles many, small, lanceo- 

 late, deciduous ; pedicels -1 to -2 in. long ; buds short, clavate, rounded ; 

 flowers white or cream-coloured, tinged with red. Galyx cleft about 



