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which contain each only one ovule. In 
addition, the ovarium is five-lobed, and 
points out an affinity with the great family 
of Rubiacee—indeed I feel much disposed 
to combine Eurycoma with that sub-order 
of Xanthorylee, which I have called At- 
lanthee, comprehending Brucea and Ai- 
lanthus ; both of which have solitary 
ovules, and the albumen (if it may be so 
called) reduced to a mere plate or inner 
coat to the seed. G. A. W. A.”) 
EURYCOMA LONGIFOLIA. W.J. 
Kayu Kabal, Malay. 
Found at Tappanuly and Bencoolen, in 
Sumatra, and at Singapore. 
This isa small Tree, whose branches are 
thick, rough with the vestiges of fallen 
leaves, and foliose at their summits. Leaves 
crowded at the extremity of the branches, 
two feet long, pinnated with numerous 
leaflets, which are oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
very entire, very smooth ; two to three 
inches in length. 
on different plants. Calyx small, five- 
parted. Corolla longer than the calyx, 
purple, without tomentose with glandular 
hairs, petals erect, with inflexed margins. 
Stamens five, erect, shorter than the pe- 
tals, alternating with five pair of villous 
corpuscules, which are large and distinct 
in the male flower, very small in the her- 
maphrodite. Ovary five-lobed, lobes mo- 
nosporous; in the male very small and 
abortive. Style one, short, curved. Stig- 
mas five, thick, recurved. Capsules from 
three to five, nearly ovate, smooth, burst- 
ing on one side, one-seeded. Seed naked 
(without aril or caruncle) exalbuminous. 
eco 
differs from Cnestis in the number of the 
stamens, the single style, and the smooth- 
ness of the capsules; and from Connarus 
in the number of the ovaries and stigmas 
and the want of the umbilical caruncula. 
DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
Wei. 
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.—Nat. Ord. 
VERBENACEX. B; 
- PERONEMA. 
Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla tubo brevi, 
limbo irregulari 5-lobo, laciniis secundis. 
Stamina duo, exserta; rudimenta duorum 
sterlium. Stigma refractum. Fructus 
siccus, 4-partibilis, 4-spermus.— Arbor, 
foliis pinnatis petiolo alato, paniculà żer- 
minali opposite corymbosá. l 
PERONEMA CANESCENS. 
Sunkei. Malay. 
A large tree, native of Sumatra. 
Trunk straight, but little branched; 
leaves opposite, pinnate, nearly two feet 
long, with seven to nine pairs of leaflets, 
which are alternate or sub-opposite, lan- 
ceolate, attenuated to both ends, acute, 
somewhat recurved, entire, smooth above, 
canescent beneath, veins reticulate on the 
under surface, eight to nine inches long. 
Petioles winged, finely and delicately to- 
mentose, wings decurrent from the insertion 
of the leaflets. Stipules none. The branches 
are crowned by a vast terminal, oppositely 
corymbose panicle, of which the ultimate 
divisions are dichotomous, with a flower in 
the bifurcations; the whole is finely tomen- 
tose and hoary. Bracts small, acute. 
Flowers inconspicuous, whitish. Calyz 
five-parted, segments acute, erect. Corolla 
not much longer than the calyx, limb ex- 
panding, irregular, five-lobed, segments. 
secund, the two upper ones diverging, the 
lowermost considerably longer than the 
rest. Stamens two, reflexed backwards, 
between the upper segments of the corolla; 
W. J. 
Jilaments subulate, thickened towards the 
base; anthers long. Rudiments of two 
abortive stamens. Ovary four-celled, ovule 
erect. Style rather longer than the sta- 
mens. Stigma simple, refracted. Fruit 
, Seated on the calyx, villous, dry, separating 
into four portions, each of which contains d 
a single seed. 
This i is a valuable timber-tree, 
