1904.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 63 



obscurely lobed, 4- to G-celled, about 1 in. in diara. Lam. 111., t. 154 

 f. 2; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 68G. Wall. Cat. 6219; W. & A. Prod. Fl. Pen. 

 Ind. 422 ; Wight Ic. t. 40 ; Kurz For. Flor. Burm. II. 37 ; Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 126. Gadamha jasminijlora, Sonner. Voy. Ind. II. t. 128. 

 Nictanthes hirsuta, Linn. Sp. PI. 8. Jasminum hirsutum, Willd. Sp. PI. 

 L 36.— Rheede Hort. Mai. t. 47, 48. 



In all the provinces — on the sea-coasts. — Distrtb. Shores of the 

 tropics of old and new worlds. 



33. TiMONius, Rumph. 

 Shrubs or trees : stipules ovate-lanceolate, deciduous : leaves more 

 or less coriaceous. Flowers rather small, polygamo-dioecious, in axillary 

 cymes. Male cymes with few or many secund flowers. Female 1- to 3- 

 flowered, the pedicels bibracteolate. Calyx-tuhe short; the limb cupular, 

 persistent. Gorolla coriaceous, pubescent, funnel-shaped ; the throat 

 and the tube within glabrous ; limb with 4 or 5 (rarely with 10) lobe?, 

 valvate in bud or nearly so. Stamens as many as the lobes of the 

 corolla, inserted by short filaments in the tube ; anthers linear, dorsi- 

 fixed. Disfc small, hispid. OiJar?/ many-celled ; style short, thick, hairy, 

 with several more or less united linear (often unequal) brandies ; ovules 

 solitary in each cell, pendulous. Fruit ovoid or globose, usually 4- 

 grooved, composed of 12 to 24 or even 30 small elongated 1-celled 1- 

 seeded pyrenes cohering by their sides and sunk in a 4-armed, placenti. 

 form mass, the whole being enclosed in an epicarp crowned by the 

 remains of the calyx. Seeds cylindric, straight, rarely curved, with 

 thick funicles and membranous testas ; albumen scanty or absent : 

 cotyledons small, radicle long. — Distrib. About 30 species, Tropical 

 Asiatic and Polynesian. 



Fem;ile flower solitary on a long peduncle : — 



cf peduncles long, slender, glabrous ; leaves glabrous 

 except the nerves beneath; fruit 4-grooved, 

 glabrous ... ... ... ... 1. T. Jamhosella. 



<? peduncles short, rusty-pubescent ; leaves rusty- 

 pubescent beneath ; fruit not grooved, rusty- 

 pubescent ... ... ... ... 2. T. Wrayii. 



Female flowers in small pedunculate cymes ... 3. T. Rumphii. 



Species of which cf flower and fruit are unknown : — 

 Stipules triangular, acuminate ... ... 4. T. laxus. 



Stipules cupular, the mouth with several unequal 



linear points ... ... ... ... 5. T. malaccensis. 



1. TiMONius Jambosella, Thwaites Bnum. PI. Ceyl. 153. A small 

 ever-green tree or shrub ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, 

 brown when dry, glabrous or sparingly silky. Leaves coriaceous, their 

 margins sometimes recurved, lanceolate, elliptic- lanceolate, or elliptic, 

 acuminate, tlie base narrowed, cuneate ; both surfaces dull-browii when 



