Ftlgr<fjt. PENXANDRIA MONCGYNlA. S3 



Additions ly N. W. 



3. F. obovata, Wall. 



Arboreous ; leaves ovate or obovate, rounded with a short broad 

 point, petioled ; peduncles terminal, three-flowered, sub-corymbose. 



Specimens were sent to me from Silhet where the tree is called 

 Saom (if^Qlf.) It blossoms during the rainy season, and the fruits 

 ripen in March. I have had others from my highly esteemed friend. 

 Mr. W. Jack, gathered together with many other interesting plants 

 at Singapore. 



A middling sized tree ; with thick, obsurely four-sided branches ; 

 smooth on all its parts. — Leaves in approximate pairs, spreading, 

 from ovate to obovate, with a short broad point, tapering and point- 

 ed downwards and slightly decurrent on the petiol, five or six inches 

 long, thick, almost fleshy, without veiris or nerves, shining above the 

 rib, much elevated below. — Petiols thick, round, an inch long, flat- 

 fish above, concave at the base, with a few glandular cities, such as 

 are generally found in the family of Apocineez, with an intra-petiolary, 

 erect, oval, adpressed, retuse, concave ligula or stipula, connect* 

 ed with that opposite to it by means of a narrow, elevated, annular 

 margin. — Peduncles teminal, thick and fleshy, round, sub-corymbose, 

 jointed, with opposite, spreading, ovate, acute branches under each 

 division, three-flowered. — Flowers white, fragrant, coriaceous, as- 

 large as those of Plumieria acuminata, on short, thick, clavate, 

 bi-bracheate pedicels. — Calyx sub-companulate, five-cleft; lacinitz 

 broad-ovate, obtuse, imbricating. Corolla nearly two inches long, 

 infundibuliform ; tube thrice as long as the calyx, widening from the 

 slender base to the pervious, naked throat. Lacinice ovate, obtuse, 

 oblique, very spreading. — Filaments thread-shaped, bent downward 

 a little above the insertion, so as to form a hook, reaching to the 

 middle of the border of the corolla. Anthers fleshy, oblong, at- 

 tached by their back, opening longitudinally on each side. — Ovarium 

 oblong, fleshy, smooth, bilocular ; ovula numerous, attached to a nV 



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