322 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Jackid, 



vered on several of the small islands in the immediate vicinity of Sin- 

 gapore, in full blossom and with unripe fruits in October. 



Branchlets thick and robust, obscuiely quadrangular, thickly co- 

 vered with long, soft, adpressed, ferruginous hairs; marked when old, 

 with numerous vestiges of the fallen leaves and with the withered sti- 

 pules. — Leaves very large, spreading, leathery, opposite, sub-decus- 

 sate, short-uetioled, crowded towards the end of the branchlets, where 

 the pairs are scarcely an inch asunder, elliptic-obovate, from six to 

 ten, or even twelve or fourteen inches long; entire, with even, regular, 

 ciliate margins ; cuspidato-acute ; from three to six inches broad at the 

 outer end, from thence gradually tapering downwards to the acute, 

 narrow, ssub-decurrent base ; smooth and shining above, soft and vil- 

 lous underneath, with copious, short, ferruginous hairs, especially 

 along the strong, very prominent rib, and numerous parallel, oblique, 

 elevated nerves, which continue in a bent direction to the very 

 margin ; veins sub-simple, parallel, transversal between the nerves. — 

 Petiol thick, round, villous, slightly channelled above, an inch long, 

 a little margined from the sub-decurrent leaf, inserted on the base of 

 the stipule. — Stipules large and leathery, connate, annular, sub-in- 

 futidihulifornij entirely embracing the branch within the petiole*, 

 about half as long as they, sub-imbricating, haiiy, especially within, 

 with a truncate, widenii g margin, greenish, fringed with about ten 

 iiliform, erect, bearded processes, which are an inch lorsg or more. — 

 "Panicles large, axillary, opposite, pendulous, on very long peduncles, 

 liairy and villous, with spreading, opposite, slender branches, each 

 terminating with a corymb of crowded, sub-dichotomous spikes. 

 "Peduncles compressed, very slender ^ common ones from four to six in- 

 ches 1 ng; partial ones half that size, gradually diminishing in length; 

 each supported by a pair of ample, fringed, connate bractes, which 

 sometimes grow out at the margin into opposite, small floral leaflets. 

 — Flowers white, inodorous, sessile, approximate, alternate, dispos- 

 ed in short, unilateral, villous spikes of an inch in length ;. each is 

 supported by an oval, densely villous, dentate, persistent bracte; these 

 bractes are alternate, sub-imbricate on the back of the spike. — Calyx 



