228 King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, [No. 4, 



Leaves coriaceous, obovate, obtuse; stipules short, broad. Flowers 

 small, iu dense, shortly-pedunculate cymes. Calyx-tube elongate- 

 obconic ; the limb cupular, truncate, minutely 4- or 5-toothed, persistent. 

 Corolla-tube cylindric ; the throat dilated and villous ; the limb with 

 4 or 5 oblong lobes twisted in bud. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted by short 

 filameuts between the lobes of the corolla, anthers linear, sagittate. 

 Disk annular, lobed. Ovary with 2 narrow cells ; style filiform, with 

 2 linear obtuse stigmatic branches. Ovules 2 in each cell, attached 

 to the middle of the cell, one pendulous, the other ascending; the 

 contiguous funicles dividing each cell into 2 chambers. Drupe sub- 

 cylindric, 8- to 10-grooved and winged, separating into 2 crustaceous 

 4- to 5-ribbed pyrenes. Seeds sub-cylindric ; testa membranous ; albu- 

 men scanty; cotyledons oblong. — Distrib. A single species in Malaya 

 and Ceylon. 



Scyphiphora hydrophyllacea, Gaertn. Fruct. III. 91. t. 196. A 

 miniature evergreen tree, with a spherical crown and simple stem hardly 

 exceeding 4 feet in height. Leaves acute at the base on a petiole 

 •5 to 1 in. long ; nervation obsolete ; length about 2 in. ; breadth 1*5 in. 

 Flowers whitish often tinged with red ; collected in small dichotom- 

 ously branched axillary cymes. Calyx about '15 in. long. Corolla-tube 

 about as long as the calyx and its lobes half as long. Drupes 

 elliptically oblong, about '35 in. long. DO. Prod. IV. 577 ; Kurz. Fl. 

 Burm. II. 4 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 125 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 239 ; 

 Koord. & Valet. Bijdr. 8. 125; Trimen Fl. Zeyl. III. Epethenia 

 malayana, Jack in Mai. Misc. I. 12; Wall. Cat. 8444; DC. I.e. 478; 

 W. & A. Prod. 424. Epithenia sp., Griff. Notul. IV. 269; Ic. PI. 

 Asiat. 478 and 644 A. (Lumintzera). Rubiacea, Wall. Cat. 9055 A. in 

 part. 



In Mangrove swamps.— Distrib. Coasts of S. India and Ceylon ; 



Andaman Islands ; Malay Archipelago to N. Australia ; Philippines and 



New Caledonia. 



30. Jackia, Wall. 



A tall tree ; young branches stout, obtusely 4-angled, covered by 

 the persistent bases of the fallen leaves and by the large coriaceous, 

 sheathing long-bristled stipules. Leaves coriaceous, large. Flowers 

 densely pubescent, in prominently bracteolate scorpioid cymes arranged 

 corymbosely in long-peduncled pendulous axillary panicles. Calyx-tube 

 small, obconic, the limb with 5 unequal lobes, two of them small 

 the other 3 coriaceous, large, veined, accrescent and forming wings 

 to the ripe fruit. Corolla funnel-shaped, the tube narrow, sub-glabrous 

 inside, lobes of: the limb 5, valvate in bud, triangular. Anthers 5, linear, 

 sub-sessile in the throat, the connective apiculate. Disk hairy. Ovary 



