46^2 G. King — Materials for a Flora of (he Malayan FeninsuXa. [No. 3, 

 1. Buchanan lA, Roxb. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petfoled, simple, quite entire. Panictes 

 termirml and axillary, crowded. Flowers small", wTiite, hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx short, 3-5-toothed or -lobed, persigtent, imbricate. Petals 4-5, 

 oblong, recurved, imbricate. Disc orbicular, 5-lobed. Stamens S-IQ, 

 free, inserted at the base of the disc. Carpels 5-6, free, seated in the 

 cavity of the disc, one fertile, the rest imperfect ; style short, stigma 

 truncate ; ovule 1, pendulous from a basal funicle. Drupe small, flesh 

 scanty; stone crustaceOus or bony, 2-valved. Seed gibbous, acute at 

 one end ; cotyledons thick ; radicle superior. — Distkif. A tropical 

 Asiatic, Australian and Polynesian genus ; species about 25. 



Anthers not sagittate at the base ... ... 1. B. plafynentra. 



Antliers sagittate at the base. 



Leaves always sharply acuminate at the apex, 

 ^he lower surface of the midrib pubescent; 

 panicles pubescent ... ... ... 2. B. sessiUfolia, 



Leaves rounded or obtuse at the apex,= som©' 

 times shortly and bluntly acuminate, every- 

 where glabrous r panicle glabrous .^. .., 3. B.florida^ 

 1. BucHANANiA PLATYNEURA, Kurz in Joum. As. 8*00. Bengal XLV 

 (.1876), pt. 2, p. 125. A tree 40 to 60 feet high, the young shoots 

 deciduously puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to elliptic- 

 lanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base cuneate and sometimes 

 slightly unequal; both surfaces glabrous and shining, the reticulations 

 when dry distinct or not, the midrib broad on both surfaces; main nerves 

 11 to 13 pairs, spreading, curving ; length 4 to 9 in. or even 11 in., 

 breadth J '75 to 2*5 in., petiole '5 to 1 in. Panicles crowded at the ends 

 of the branches, axillary, erect, shorter or longer than the leaves, shortly 

 pedunculate, puberulous \ their branches shorty slender, horizontal, 

 cymosely few-flowered. Flowers '\ in., in dfam., on minutely bracteolate 

 pedicels longer than themselves. Sepals 4, t|iick, ovate or elliptic, 

 obtuse, much shorter than the petals. Petals 4, oblong, very blunt, 

 spreading and reflexed. Stamens 8 ; the anthers narrow, elongjite, the 

 bases not sagittate, the apices recurved ;; filam.ents longer than the 

 anthers, flat. Pistils several, one only ripening. Drupe sub-globular, 

 with 4 vertical ridges, two prominent and two obscure, glabrous, 

 purplish-black when ]?ipe; the etone hard, '4 in, in dig-ni. J]ngler in DQ. 

 Mon. Phan. IV, 1^3. 



The Andaman and Nicobar Islands : very common. 

 This is put by Eugler amongst doubtful species — no doubt as the 

 result of his not having seen good specimens ; for the species is a very 

 well-marked one. Its nearest ally is the Siimatran species B. splendvnsy 

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