Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 277 
anther-cells very small. Disk 5-lobed. Ovary pubescent ; style thick ; 
stigma capitate, lobed, the lobes reflexed. Drupe pyriform, 3—4 cm. 
long, the upper part 10—15 mm. in diam.; exocarp glabrous or 
nearly so, endocarp bony, rugose; fruiting rhachis thickened. Seed 
t cm. in diam., cotyledons thin, oblong. 
SINGAPORE: at Selitar, Bukit Mandai, Changi, Bajan, Chanchu- 
kang, etc., Ridley 1921!, 4761!, 5889!, etc.; at Changi, Hullett 850!. 
CHAMPEREIA, Griff. 
Glabrous shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, shortly petio- 
late. Flowers minute, in 3—5-fiowered axillary panicled cymes, 
hermaphrodite or sometimes 3 by abortion; bracts minute or 0. 
Perianth inferior; segments 5, valvate. Stamens 5, perigynous, 
opposite the perianth-lobes ; filaments filiform; anther-cells parallel, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Disk hypogynous, annular, often lobed. 
Ovary superior, half immersed in the disk; stigma broad, sessile ; 
ovule solitary, erect. Drupe ellipsoid, pedicelled; exocarp thin, 
endocarp crustaceous. Seed conform to the drupe; embryo inverted 
in the middle of fleshy albumen; cotyledons 2—4, linear; radicle 
superior, clavate.—Distris. About 2—3 species, of the Malay 
Peninsula and Archipelago. 
In the Naturl. Pflanzenfam. Engler and Prantl have transferred this genus 
to OpInr1acEa and have been followed by Merrill. This seems to be right, but 
I describe it here as it was omitted from the description of OLacinea (includ- 
ing Opintacr™®) in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIV. IT. 1 (1895). 94 
CHAMPEREIA GRIFFITHIANA, Planch. in Herb. Hook. A shrub 
or small tree reaching 4—5 m. in height: branchlets slender, pale 
brown, smooth. Leaves subcoriaceous ; ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 
acute to long acuminate at apex, acute at base; both surfaces 
glabrous, pale when dry and puncticulate; 7—15 cm. long, 3—6 em. 
broad; midrib slender, prominent; main nerves about 5—6 pairs, 
distant, arched, joined by irregular reticulation; petiole 5 -7 mm. 
long. Male panicles slender, 5—10 cm. long; pedicels filiform, 
2—7 mm. long; fruiting panicles much longer and stouter, the pedi- 
cels enlarged; perianth-lobes reflexed in 3, erect in ¢ flowers. 
Drupe 1O—15 mm. long, 10 mm. in diam., yellow to bright red when 
ripe; pericarp smooth, the apex rounded. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 
236; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliv. II. 154 and in For. Fl. IT. 
330 (Griffithii). Champereia Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. 237. 
Prnana: Government Hill, Maingay K.D. 375!; Curtis 1551; 
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