Morinda. pentandria monogynia. 203 



8. M. telrandra, W. J. 



Tetrandrous. Peduncles terminal, umbellate. Coroh four-cleft, 

 hairy within. Leaves lanceolate. 



Pada-Fara, Rheed. mal. vii. 51. t. 27, 



Native of the Malay Islands. 



JMangkudu Kicheel, Malay. 



A small diffuse shrub, with long slender branches, nodose at 

 the bifurcations. Leaves opposite, ahoit-petioled, lanceolate, acu« 

 minate, very entire, very smooth, the nerves reddish below, and fur- 

 nished with cliated glands in the axils.— Stipules interoetiolar, trun- 

 cate. — Peduncles from five to ten, umbellate, teruiina'. — Flowers 

 aggregate on a common receptacle. Calyx, an entire margin 

 crowning the ovary. Corolla mfundihulifi inn, four.narled, thelaci- 

 ti'ue densely covered within with long white bans. — Stamina four, 

 snorter than the corolla, and alternating with its divisions ; filaments 

 very short; anthers oblong. Ovary interior, two-celled, four-seeded. 

 Stigma bifida. Fruit sub-globose, yellow, composed <>f coadunale 

 berries, angular by their mutual compression, crowned with the 

 vestige of the calyx, four-seeded ; needs osseous. 



06s. Rhetde describes his Pada-l ara to be fourteen feet in 

 height; this is the only particular in which it differs from my plant. 

 In every other respect they agree exactly. — W. Jack, loc. cit* 



Additional Obs. by N. TV. 

 Rheede's plant has been considered by Justieu as a spcies of 

 this genus, in Mem. du mus. vi. 40'2. In Schultes's edition of sysr. 

 veg. v. 216 the species is called M. Pada Vara ; in Dennstedt's 

 Key to the Hortus malabaricus it is referred to M. umbetlata,— 

 Can M. Royoc, Linn. Lour, cochinch. be thi3 species ? 



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