354 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. Sy 



disc, flat, incurved ; anthers small, sub-orbicular. Disc a wide fleshy- 

 cup with thick entire edge. Ovary ovoid, obscurely 3-angled, seated 

 on and confluent with but not immersed in the disc, 3-celled. Style 

 short, clavate. Fruit broadly ovoid, almost globular, 3-angled ; the 

 pericarp coriaceous, dark-coloured externally, 3-valved, the dehisced 

 valves almost square. Seeds 1 or often 2 in each cell. 



Kedah : Curtis No. 2500. 



Known only by Curtis's specimens. Inasmuch as (1) the stamens 

 are inserted below and not on the margin of the disc, (2) the ovary 

 is inserted on and confluent at its base with the disc, and (3) the in- 

 florescence is cymose and not racemose or paniculate, this is a Gymno- 

 sporia rather than a Celastrus. The scandeiit habit, however, is that of 

 Celastrus. It appears to me a little doubtful whether these two genera 

 ought to be kept distinct. The species of both are in want of careful 

 revision. 



8. KuRRiMiA, Wall. 



Trees, usually glabrous, young branches tipped with the deciduous 

 stipules. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate, towards the ends of the 

 branches, coriaceous, entire, shining, penninerved, petiole slender. 

 Flowers in panicles or racemes. Calyx 5-fid, spreading. Petals 5, in- 

 serted under the margin of the disc, spreading or recurved. Stamens 

 5, inserted with the petals. Disc fleshy, sub-entire or 5-lobed. Ovary 

 free, glabrous or puberulous at the base, crowned at the top with a tuft 

 of hairs ; styles 2, filiform ; stigmas small, capitate ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell, erect. Capsule entire or 2-lobed, 1-2-celled, dehiscing by 



2 valves, 1-2-seeded. Seeds erect, completely or partially covered by a 

 fleshy aril ; albumen abundant, fleshy, cotyledons linear-oblong. — 

 DiSTRiB. India, Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago : species 



3 or 4. 



Flowers in racemes, glabrous, disc sub-entire, 



fruit not bifid ... ... ... 1. K. pulcherrima. 



Flowers in panicles, puberulous, disc deeply 



5-lobed, fruit bifid ... ... ... 2. K. paniculata. 



1. KuRRiMiA PULCHERRIMA, Wall. Cat. 4334. A tree 40 to 70 feet 

 high ; young branches glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or elliptic- 

 oblong, acuminate, entire, the base rounded ; both surfaces glabrous, 

 the upper shining, the lower dull and pale when dry ; main nerves 

 about 12 pairs, curved, ascending, prominent on the lower surface ; 

 length 6 to 8 in., breadth 1*75 to 3*25 in., petiole '8 to I in., narrow and 

 spike-like. Racemes several from an axil, shorter than the leaves, 

 glabrous. Flowers on pedicels shorter than themselves, '15 in. in diam., 



