Eathemis. »entandria monogynia. 303 



point is subulate, slightly deflexed. Among a large collection of 

 drawings in the possession of my worthy friend Lieut. Colonel. \V. 

 Faiquhar, the resident at Singapore, who has spent many years in 

 the Malay countries, doing good and promoting researches in natu- 

 ral ijision, to which he is himself zealously and successfully devot- 

 ed, 1 found one of this very plant winch lie mtoiined me tie met 

 with lieai tlie summit of mount Qphir, situated about thirty miles 

 from Maiacca, and elevated nearly lour thousand feet above the 

 level of the Sea.— JS. VV. 



EUTHEMIS, W. Jack *« Mai. Mi seel I . i. 



Calyx infenor, five-leaved. Carolla five-petalled. Stamina 

 hypog)iiuus, with oblong, acuminate anthers bursting at the apex 

 with two pores. Style filiform, equalling the stamina. Bern/ tive- 

 seeded. Seeds disposed round the axis, oblong, angular within, 

 enclosed in a fibrous arilius, albuminous. Embryo inverse, cylift- 

 dnc, as long aiinost as the seed, with superior radicuia. 



1. E. leucocarpa, W. J. 



Leaves lanceolate, beautifully spinuloso-serrale. Racemes bran- 

 chy at the base. Berries globular, white. 



Malay, Flawan bruk. 



Native of forests at Singapore. 



A shrub of uncommon elegance and beauty, erect, four or five feet 

 in height ; branchlets round, smooth, sometimes slightly angled. 

 heaves alternate, petiolate, lanecolate, acute, decurrent on the petioi, 

 spinuloso-serrate, very smooth and shining, beautifully striated 

 with line parallel, transverse nerves. — Petioles margined, flat and 

 channelled above, dilated at the base into a thick, rounded, prominent 

 rim, which half embraces the stem. — Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 

 ciliate, very deciduous. — Racemes erect, with one or two branches 

 near the base, at first terminal, afterwards lateral and oppositifolius 



