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like a corolla. Seeds attached to the inner 
s of the capsules, a few only coming s 
to perfection, partly embraced by a red 
pulpy aril, which originates from the um- 
bilicus. : 
Ons. This species is very beautiful 
when in fruit, from the delicacy of the co- 
lours which the capsules exhibit. 
W. J. 
Foliis cuneato-obovatis apice rotundatis, 
nervo medio dichotomo, fructibus axilla- 
ribus solitariis v. binis pedunculatis. 
Found at Singapore and on several parts 
of the West coast of Sumatra and its is- 
lands. 
A small Tree, with smooth brownish 
bark. Leaves alternate, petiolate, cunea- 
FICUS OVOIDEA. 
_to-obovate, rounded above, attenuated to 
e base, very entire, very smooth, the 
middle nerve dichotomous, from one and a 
half to two inches long. Petioles nearly 
half an inch long, round, with a slight fur- 
row above, and covered with grey bark like 
ne Desnebiets in pis pruimen, Pe- 
y; shorter 
than the petioles, one-flowered. IJnvolu- 
eres embraced at the base by three short 
subrotund bracts, nearly globose, smooth, 
shut at the mouth by scales, and containing 
numerous pedicellate florets. Seeds naked, 
hard 
Oss. The leaves are peculiar in having 
the middle nerve dichotomous, a character 
by which this species may be readily dis- 
tinguished from its congeners. 
W. J. 
Foliis obcuneato-deltoideis apice latis v. 
retusis, nervo medio dichotomo, fructibus 
axillaribus binis pedunculatis. 
A small Tree, native of Sumatra, and 
very similar to the preceding, but having 
FICUS DELTOIDEA. 
_ the eaves proportionally broader, more de- 
cidedly deltoid, and retuse or truncate, not 
. rounded at top; the peduncles also are in 
axils of the leaves, and longer 
im petioles. The breadth of the leaves 
is generally greater than their length in 
this species, which is not the case with the 
DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
Ee they are, however, precisely 
milar in their leathery texture, and in 
oii the nerve dichotomous, and not 
prominent. 
Ficus RIGIDA. W.J. 
Foliis ovatis lineari-acuminatis rigidis, 
fructibus pedunculatis axillaribus globo- 
sis glabris. 
Seribulan, Malay, Sumatra, &c. 
A Tree, with grey cinereous bark, and 
smooth branchlets. Leaves alternate, pe- 
tiolate, ovate, or obovate, with long linear 
acumina, which are obtuse or emarginate - 
at the point, attenuated to the base, three — 
to four inches long, entire, firm, and rigid, _ 
smooth, shining above, rugose with reti- - 
culated veins beneath ; nerves prominent 
beneath, the lowermost pair springing from 
the base, and running along the margins 
until they anastomose with the upper ones. 
Petioles brown, with cracked skin. Berries 
one to three, axillary, pedicelled, pedicels 
shorter than the petioles, smooth. Involu- 
cre globose, orange-coloured when ripe, 
smooth, with some whitish spots, as large 
asa currant. Florets numerous, pedicel- 
Female ones with a four to five- 
Rcs perianth. „Style inserted laterally ; 
seed nake 
Oss. The bark of this species is fibrous, 
and I am informed that it is employed in 
Menengkabau in the fabrication of a coarse 
kind of paper. 
JONESIA. Roxb.—Nat. Ord. LEGUMI- 
NOS. 
Calyx tubulosus, basi bibracteatus, lim- — 
bo 4-lobo. Petala "Stamina 3—7, i 
summo tubo calycis inserta. Ovarium E 
pedicellatum, pedicello calyci hinc accreto. —— 
Legumen oligospermum.— Frutices, fou —— 
abrupte pinnatis, floribus fasciculatis. 
he alteration I have here made in thé —  . 
terms of the generic description from that — 
given by Roxburgh, will remove all obscu- 
rity as to the true affinities of m genus, 
and establish its near relation to Macro- - 
lobium. The bracteal leaflets em diphyl- . 
