220 DESCRIPTION OF 
the lobes of the corolla; anthers white, 
subsagittate. Ovary superior, globular, 
_eight-celled, eight-seeded. Stigma istis 
sessile, composed of eight fleshy coadunate 
lobes. Berries about the size of pepper- 
corns, purple, containing eight seeds, 
which are angled interiorly. 
COELOPYRUM. W. J. 
OcTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
alyx 4- partitus. Corolla 4 - petala. 
Stamina 8, alterna breviora. Stigma 
obtusum, subsessile. Drupa supera, nuce 
biloculari, loculo exteriore lanato alterum 
fovente. Semen unicum, loculo altero 
vacuo.—Arbor, ramis apice foliosis sim- 
plicibus, floribus racemosis. 
COELOPYRUM CORIACEUM. W.J. 
Turantang, Malay. 
In forests in the neighbourhood of Ben- 
n. 
A Tree with thick branches, which are 
foliose at their summits. Leaves alternate, 
petiolate, elliptic, obtuse or emarginate, en- 
wi flexed margins, firm and lea- 
th above, pale and tomentose 
erect, shorter than the leaves, branched; 
owers numerous, yellowish, small and 
inconspicuous, in small racemules or spike- 
Jets. Bracts small, acute. Calyz inferior, 
spreading. Corolla four-petaled, petals 
longer than the calyx, ovate. Stamina 
eight, the alternate ones shorter. Ovary 
surrounded and nearly immersed in a large 
fleshy nectarial ring, whose sides are an- 
- gled by the compression of the filaments. 
Style scarceany. Stigma obtuse. Drupe 
_ Ovate, acute, smaller than an olive, con- 
: taining a single nut. ut two-celled, cells 
unequal and dissimilar, the outer and lower 
erescent-shaped, and embracing the other 
— is smaller, oblong, and always emp- 
ie pics cell contains a single con- 
peos The structure of the fruit is very 
peculiar ; the empty cell is placed ob- 
MALAYAN PLANTS. 
liquely in the upper part of the nut, the 
rtile one is, as it were, wrapped round 
the other. The extreme minuteness of the 
ovary prevented me from satisfactorily as- 
certaining its structure. 
PETROCARYA EXCELSA, W.J. 
Heptranpria Monocynia.—Nat. Ord. 
Rosacex. Juss. 
CHRYSOBALANEX. DC. 
Foliis oblongis acuminatis glabris, calyci- 
bus ore obliquis staminibus undecim fer- 
tilibus. 
Kayu Balam Pangkat, Malay. 
A large Tree. Leaves alternate, short- 
petioled, oblong, acuminate, entire, smooth, 
four to five inches long. Stipules longer 
than the petioles, deciduous. Racemes  — 
axillary and terminal, forming a panicle 
towards the top, strict, erect, little branch- 
ed; flowers very short, pedicelled and ap- 
pressed to the principal peduncle; the 
whole ferruginous and tomentose. ract 
broad, deciduous. Calyx infundibular, fer- 
ruginous and tomentose, oblique at the 
mouth, furnished with a ring of stiff hairs, 
which point downwards, lowest on the side 
to which the fertile stamina and ovary are 
attached ; limb five-parted, subreflex. Co- 
rolla five-petaled, inserted on the mouth of 
the calyx, and scarcely longer than its Limb, 
petals subround. tamina eleven, fertile, 
twice as long as the petals, inserted in one 
phalanx along the lower edge of the mouth 
of the calyx; on the upper edge is a ring 
with eight processes or abortive stamina. 
Ovary adnate to the side of the calyx, be- 
low the fertile stamina, densely pilose, dis- 
porous. Style lateral, inserted near the 
base of the ovary, as long as the stamina. 
Stigma simple. Drupe inclosed in the 
enlarged calyx which becomes adnate to it, 
and crowned by its persistent limb; ob- 
liquely ovate, about the size of a fil 22 
Nut smooth, one-seeded, with an abortive — 
cell, generally above the fertile one. 
curved, corresponding to the cell, albu- 
minous ; embryo cylindrical, inverse ; 7@- 
dicle superior, clavato-cylindrical, longer - 
than the ligulate cotyledons. 
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