480 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Teninsula. [No. 3, 



with age, piiberulous toward the apex, the branches cymose ; the 

 flowers at the apices, "5 in. long, the pedicel shorter ; tract ovate- 

 lanceolate, nerved, puberulous. Sepals lanceolate. Petals longer thnn 

 the sepals, linear-lanceolate, deflexed from the middle. Stamens about 

 9, one longer than the others. Fruit 1 in. long ; its peduncle large, 

 fleshy, dark-coloui^d. Jacq. Ann. I, 121, t. 35; DC. Prod. IT, 62; 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. II, 312 ; Wall. Cat. 990 ; Wight and Arn. Prodr. T, 

 168; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PL • 40 ; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Plor. Siippl. 

 18 ; Griff. Notul. IV, 408, t. 565, f . 3 e. f. ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 20; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 163; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 310; Engler 

 in DC. Mon. Phan. lY, 219.— Rlieede Hort. Mai. Ill, t. 54. 



In all the Provinces, but always near villages and probably planted* 

 A native of tropical America. 



5. Gluta, Linn. 



Trees with caustic juice. Leaves crowded at the ends of the 

 branchlets, short-petioled, simple, oblong, coriaceous. Panicles axil- 

 lary and terminal. Floiuers small, hermaphrodite. Calyx spathaceous, 

 bursting irregularly, caducous. Petals 4-6, adnate to the disc, imbri- 

 cate. Disc elongate, rarely short. Stamens 4-6, inserted on the disc, 

 filaments capillary. Ovary sessile on the disc or stipitate, oblique, 1- 

 celled ; style lateral, filiform, stigma simple ; ovule solitary, pendulous 

 from a basal funicle. Drupe sub-ligneous, stalked, dry, naore or less 

 irregularly globose, irregularly tubercled or ridged ; the endocarp coria- 

 ceous, connate with the testa, juicy : cotyledons fleshy, large, connate : the 

 radicle short and incurved. — Distrib. About six species all either 

 Malayan or Burmese. 



Calyx only about one-fourth of the length of the 

 petals, glabrous ; petioles short ('3 to -6 in. 

 long) ... ... ... ... 1. G.Benghas. 



Calyx half as long as the petals. 



Calyx glabrous ; petioles slender, -6 to 1 in., 



long, ovary obliquely ovoid ... ... 2. G. elegans. 



Calyx tomentose ; ovary obliquely sub-reni- 

 form-orbicular, tubercled, glabrous ; petioles 

 very short (-1 to '35 in.) ... ... 3. G. coarctata. 



Calyx pubescent ; ovary obovoid-rotund, tomen- 

 tose; petioles '6 or -7 in. broad, channelled ... 4. G. Wrayi. 

 1. Gluta Benghas, Linn. Mant. 293. A tree. JDeares oblanceolate- 

 oblong, the apex broad and rounded, rarely with a blunt apiculus ; 

 gradually narrowed in the lower half to the short narrow channelled 

 petiole ; both surfaces shining aud reticulate ; main nerves 18 to 20 



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