oda alternate, orbicular, cordate, unequal at 
= the base, ciliato-serrate, softly pubescent 
on both sides, the nerves connected with 
mumerous transverse veinlets, prominent 
on the under side, on the upper occasion- 
_ ing a wrinkled appearance in the drie 
: state. Peduncles lateral and axillary, 
~ shorter than the petioles, bearing a droop- 
ing umbel of four or five flowers. Calyx 
í of five lanceolate leaflets, pubescent on the 
coloured, half the length of the calyx, ob- 
longo-spathulate, obtuse and erose at the 
extremity, hairy in the middle, and bearing 
a nectariferous cavity at the base. Sta- 
_ mens numerous. Anthers yellow. Germen 
- globose, very hairy, inserted upon a red- 
dish, shortly stipitate gland. Style shorter 
an the germen. Stigma four-lobed, lobes 
fimbriated. Berry the size of a small 
cherry, rough and hairy, bearing om two 
to four seeds. 
Tas. X.. Fi 
with the Torus. 
g. 1. Flower. 2. Pet 3. Pistil, 
4. Tice of the Fruit: Sec 
DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN 
PLANTS 
( Continued from p. 157. ) 
MEMECYLON PANICULATUM. W. J. 
Foliis petiolatis ovatis obtuso-acumina- 
tis, paniculis axillaribus brachiatis. 
Found at Tappanuly, and on Pulo Bin- 
.tangor, on the West coast of Sumatra. 
A large Shrub, with grey bark and 
1 smooth branches. Leaves opposite, anes 
1 petioled, ovate or oblong-ovate, termin 
; ing in a rather obtuse acumen, cem 
. Very smooth, shining above, paler beneath, 
with pretty distinct nerves which unite 
3 into a line near the margin, seven or eight 
ed; peduncles four-sided, purplish; 
there i is, generally, a single one-flowered 
‘pedicel placed immedistely below each of 
nmneinal 1 
m A 
, Spri n g- 
i 
DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
219 
ing, as it were, from the same point. 
Flowers numerous, bluish. Bracts mi- 
nute. Calyx nearly entire. Corolla light 
blue, four-petaled, petals broad, acute. 
Stamina eight; filaments subulate; an- 
thers blue, prolonged behind into a thick 
anterior surface perpendicular to the spur, 
which is nearly horizontal, bursting longi- 
tudinally. Ovary one-celled, containing 
about eight erect ovula attached to a small 
protuberance in the base of the cell; its 
disk marked with radii corresponding to 
the faces of the anthers which are incurved 
before expansion. Style subulate. Stigma 
acute. Berry globular, ome-seeded. Seed 
erect, exalbuminous. Cofyledons peltate, 
hemispherical, their flat surfaces a little ir- 
regular or waved. KRadicle erect, rising 
perpendicularly between the cotyledons to 
their centre, where it is inserte : 
Oss. This peculiar structure ot the em- 
bryo is different from what obtains in all 
the other species of Memecylon that I 
have examined, where the cotyledons, in 
place of being solid and hemispherical, are 
foliaceous and contortuplicate. 
octas. W. J. 
OcTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Calyz 8-partitus. Corolla 8-loba. Sta- 
mina octo, laciniis corolle alterna. Stig- 
ma sessile, 8-radiatum. Bacca 8-sperma, 
su upera.— Frutex, foliis simplicibus. aler- . 
nis, spicis axillaribus. 
OCTAS SPICATA., WW. J. 
Found at Tappanuly, on the West coast 
of Sumatra. 
A Shrub, with long branches; the young 
parts tomentose. Leaves alternate, petio- 
late, lanceolate oblong, acuminate, entire, 
smooth, five inches long. Stipules small, 
acute. Spikes or racemes two from each 
s axi] rather shorter than the leaves, many- 
flowered; pedicels in threes. Flowers 
small, white. Bracts minute. Calyx 
small, eight-parted. Corolla monopetalous, 
spreading, divided at the margin into eight 
round lobes. Stamina eight, as long as 
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