6 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
214; Bot. Mag. t. 2717; Endl. Iconog. t. 62; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 
1025; Benth. Fl. Austral. V. 209; Baill. Hist. des Pl. IX. 157. t. 230, 
231 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 714 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 412 : Brandis 
Ind. Trees 518 ; Prain Beng. Plants 866 ; D. baccata, Mog. in DC. 
Prodr. XIII. 2. 236; Engl. & Prant] Naturl. Pflanzenfam. ITT. 1a. 97. 
t. 49. D. indica, Retz in Bl. Bijdr. 542; Cladostachys frutescens, 
Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 76; Mig. /. c. excl. syn. Blitum frutescens, 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. V. 235 t. 83, fig. 2. 
Perak: at Batu Kuran, Scortechini 1593! Distris. India, 
Burma, Maiay Islands, China, Australia. 
2. DEERINGIA4 INDICA, Zoll. Syst. Verz. Pl. Jav. 110 (1854). A 
herbaceous shrub, reaching 1 to 1-5 m.in height; branchlets rather 
fleshy, angled when dry, glabrous. Leaves membranous; lanceolate 
or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, cuneate-acuminate at base ; 
glabrous on both surfaces, pale beneath when dry ; 10—20 cm. long, 
5—8 em. broad ; midrib rather broad ; main nerves 8—11 pairs, the 
lowest pair rather oblique, the rest nearly at right angles to the mid- 
rib, curved near the margin ; secondary nerves few ; transverse ner- 
vules irregular, obscure ; petiole slender, 1-5 to 2, sometimes to 
4cm.long. Flowers in short axillary glabrous spikes 1—4 cm. long ; 
bract and bracteoles ovate, acute or obtuse, scarious. Perianth lobes 
oblong, acute, concave, scarious on the margins, 2°5—3 mm. long. 
Stamens scarcely exsert; filaments filiform above, gradually broaden- 
ing to join in a cup 1mm. long; anthersoblong-reniform. Ovary sub- 
globose ; stigmas 3, spreading, papillose. Fruit a white subglobose 
berry about 5 mm. in diam.; pericarp thick, fleshy ; seeds many (up 
to 50), angular-reniform, beaked, black, puncticulate. Mog. in DC. 
Prodr. XIII. 2, 236; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1026. 
Perak: at Kwala Dipang, Ridley 9583! Scortechini! at 
Waterloo, Curtis 2691! near Goping, Larut, on limestone at 150— 
300 m. alt. King’s Collector 4611! Duistris. Java, the Moluccas and 
Philippine Islands. 
2. Certosia, Linn. 
Herbs or rarely shrubs, erect or with climbing branches. Leaves 
alternate. Flowers hermaphrodite, in dense terminal and axillary 
spikes, white or pink, shining; bract and bracteoles scarious. Peri- 
anth-lobes 5, slightly connate below, scarious, imbricate, oblong or 
lanceolate, acute or obtuse, longitudinally nerved, erectin fruit. Sta- 
mens 5; filaments slender, connate below in a membranous hypogy- 
nous cup; anthers 2-celled, dorsifixed. Ovary 1-celled, ovoid or sub- 
