Eurycoma. PENTANDRIA MONOGY-NIA»- S077 



EURYCOMA, W.Jack. 



CaJift five-parted. Corolla five-petalled. Ten glands alternating 

 wi'h 'lie stamens. Ovary five-lobed ; lobes one-seeded. Stigma* 

 five. Capsules from three- to five-foliicularj smooth, one-seeded. Seed 

 nake<l. 



.Naiuial order, Connaracpa. 



Polygamous. Leaves pinnated, fastigiate. Flowers panicled. 



1. E longifo/ia, W. Jack. 



Malay, Kagu Kabol. 



Found at Tappanooly and Bencoolenin Sumatra, and at Singa- 

 pore. 



This is a sma'l tree, whose branches are thick, rough with the ves- 

 tiges of faden eaves and foliose at their summits. Leaves crowded 

 at the extremity of the branches, two feet long, pinnated with numer- 

 ous leaflets, which are oblong-lanceolate, acute, very entire, veiy 

 smooth ; two or three inches in length. Panicles axillary, very long. 

 Flowers male and hermaphrodite on different plants. Calyx small, 

 five-parted. Corolla longer than the calyx, purple, tomentose with- 

 out, with glandular hairs, petals erect, with indexed margins. Sta- 

 mina five, erect, shorter than the petals> alternating with five pair of 

 Pilous corpuscnles which are large and distinct in the male flower, 

 very small in the hermaphrodite. Ovary five-lobed, lobss monospor- 

 ous> ; in the male very small and abortive. Style one, short, curved- 

 Stigma/a five, thick, recurved. Capsules from three to five, neatly 

 ovate, smooth, bursting on one side, one-seeded. Seed naked, (with- 

 out aiil or caruncle) exalbtimin >>ns. 



Obs. The corpuscuhs interposed between the stamina are re- 

 markable in the male flower, being roundish, erect, yellow bodias, 

 with somewhat the appearance of abortive anthers, iiv the hernia* 



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