264 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
short; stigma large, capitate, papillose; ovules 2, pendulous. 
Hypogynous disk 0, or a very minute ring. Fruit a compressed 
obovate or oblanceolate 2-celled capsule, loculicidal; pericarp coria- 
ceous or woody; placentas on the middle of the valves. Seeds 2 or 
1 by abortion, ovoid, the base of each bearmg a long caudiform 
appendix reaching to the bottom of the cell; testa crustaceous, 
tegmen soit, corky; albumen 0; cotyledons fleshy, plano-convex.— 
About 10—12 species, in India, Malaya, China and the Philippines to 
New Guinea. 
Leaves glabrous, shining, under 10 cm. long; perianth 
5 mm. long, puberulous; capsule obovoid, glabrous, 
under 3 cm. long 39 Se .. 1. A. MALACCENSIs. 
Leaves puberulous beneath, dull, usually over 10 em. 
long; perianth 8—10 mm. long, grey-tomentose; 
capsule oblanceolate, grey-tomentose, 4 em. long .. 2. A. HIRTA. 
1, AQUILARIA MALACCENSIS, Lamk. Dict. I. 49 (1783) and Ii. 
t. 356. A large tree reaching 18 to 24 m. in height and 60 cm. in 
diam. of stem; bark whitish, rather smooth; branchlets slender, pale 
brown. young ones pubescent; buds silky. Leaves chartaceous, 
glabrous ; oblong-lanceolate or shortly oblong, acutely or obtusely 
caudate-acuminate at apex, rounded or attenuate at base; both 
surfaces shining, smooth; margins wavy, recurved and thickened Bi 
6—10 cm. long, 2°5—4:5 cm. broad; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, rather 
irregular, often branched, curving to the thickened margin and with 
secondary nerves between, also many very fine subparallel nervules ; 
petiole thickened, 4—6 mm. long. Umbellules on axillary or lateral 
branchlets, about 6-flowered; peduncles 6—10 mm. long; pedicels 
slender, 3—4 mm. long. Perianth-tube campanulate, puberulous 
without, nearly glabrous and 10-ribbed within, 3 mm. long; lobes 
ovate, 2 mm. long, villous, reflexed in flower; scales 10, obtuse, 
densely pilose, 1 mm. long. Stamens below the scales, the anthers 
about as long. Ovary densely villous; style short; stigma capitate. 
Capsuie broadly obovoid or oblanceolate, 2°5—3 em. long, 2—2-5 
cm. broad ; pericarp woody, smooth outside or warted. Seeds ovoid, 
puberulous, beaked, 6—7 mm. long, the basal appendage as long and 
twisted. DC. Prodr. II. 59; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 2. 602 excel. 
citation of Benth.; Dict. Sc. Nat. t. 248; Kurz For. FI. Il. 236; 
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 883 and Suppl. 356; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 
200: Baillon Hist. des Pl. VI. 100, figs. 67—69; Gilg in Engl. & 
Prantl] Naturl. Pllenzenfam. III. 6A. 224, Fig. 77B; Ridl. in Journ. 
R. As. Soc. Straits Br. xxxv. 73; Koord. Exkurs. Fl]. Jav. 656. A. 
