Cerbcra. PENTANDRIA MOXOGYNIA. 523 



Additional species by N. IV. 



4. C. Man g has, Linn.— Gaertn. carp. ii. \§2.t i23 et 124.' 



Leaves closely approximate, scattered, oblo./g, acute, attenuate 

 downwards. Laciiiia of the corolla ovate, with an incurved, sub- 

 tetuse apex. Drupes two, ovate-oblong. 



Arbor Lactaria, Rumph. Amb. ii. 241 I 81. 



1 found this species growing wild on the sandy shores of Singa- 

 pore and some of the adjacent Islands in dower in September and 

 October. 



1 have not seen the fruit; vet I am a'most certain of the identity of 

 the tree, with Rumphius's arbor lactaria. — Loureiro's C. saluta- 

 ris flor. cochinch. i. 136 may perhaps be this plant, notwithstand- 

 ing his quoting Rumphius's Lactaria sahibris, I. cit. 255. t. 84. 

 (which Lamarck has with propriety separated under his C. oppositi- 

 Jolia, Eucycl. bot. i. 62. Suppl. i. 262.) in preference to the tree 

 mentioned above. — Roxburgh's C. quaternifoda, hort- beng. 19, is 

 the same as my plant, although he also adduces the Lactaria salubris. 



The trees which 1 observed were small; branchlets, remarkably 

 thick, sub-cylindric, marked with the vestiges of the insertion of the 

 fallen leaves, otherwise perfectly smooth, as are all the other parts. 

 Leaves scattered and spreading in all directions, cjoseh approximat- 

 ed towards the ends of the branches, oblong, with an acute somewhat 

 recurved apex, tapering towards the base, coriaceous, dark-green and 

 glossy above, paler underneath, with capillary sub-tiansversal nerves 

 which unite by means of a sub-marginal vein ; from six to nine inches 

 long; on young shoots somewhat remote, alternate or sub-verticil- 

 late. — Fetiol an inch long, round, slightly furrowed ; within the base 

 there are numerous broadish, persistent, black glands, which are ar- 

 ranged in two or three series. — Panicle large, terminal, open, with 

 articulated di- or tri-chotonious ramifications. — Flowers white, showy, 

 almost scentless, teruate, at length sub-ramcemose, on clavate pedun- 

 cles. — Leaves of the caijx large, membranous, whitish, lanceolate, uu« 



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