1897.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 297 



lobes 5, erect or reflexed, persistent or deciduous. Petals 5, quincunci- 

 ally imbricate in bud. Stamens 20 or more, filaments sometimes connate 

 at the base. Disc annular, or lining the calyx-tube. Carpels 2-5, 

 connate and adnate to the calyx-tube ; styles 2-5, free or connate below, 

 stigmas truncate ; ovules 2 in each cell, basal, collateral, ascending. 

 Fruit (a pome) fleshy, 2-5-celled ; cells with a membranous or cartila- 

 ginous often 2-valved endocarp, 1-2-seeded. Seeds when in pairs plano- 

 convex, testa coriaceous ; cotyledons amygdaloid. Distrib. N. temp, 

 and" cold regions ; species about 100. 



Pyrus granulosa, Bertol. in Mem. Acad. Sc. Bolog. Ser. II, IV, 

 3 J 2. A small glabrous tree. Leaves coriaceous, ovate, usually acu- 

 minate, the base cuneate or rounded, the edges serrate or sinuate- 

 serrate ; upper surface shining, the lower dull-brown when dry ; main 

 nerves 7-9 pairs, prominent on the lower surface, oblique. Fruits 

 globose-pyriform, minutely rugulose, glabrous, the calyx-lobes not. 

 persistent, '75 in. long and *6 in. in diam., 4-celled, in lax terminal 

 glabrous corymbs longer than the leaves; fruit pedicels from 4-1 5 

 in. long, endocarp of large granules. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 378. 

 P. sikkimensis, Wenzig in Linnasa, 1874, 58, in part ; Kurz For. Flor. 

 Brit. Burm. I, 442. P. Karensium, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 1872, II, 306 ; 1873, II, 232. 



Perak ; at an elevation of 2000-2500 feet ; Scortechini. Distrib. 

 Burma ; Khasia Mountains ; Sumatra, Forbes 2050 ! 2376. 



Order XL. SAXIFRAGACE^E. 



Trees shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate and exstipulate, or stipules 

 adnate to the base of the petiole, or opposite and exstipulate. Inflores- 

 cence various ; flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo-dicecious ; the sepals, 

 petals and stamens symmetrically regular. Calyx more or less adnate 

 to the ovary, sometimes nearly free, sometimes quite inferior ; lobes 

 imbricate or valvate. Petals 5 or 4, rarely 0, perigynous or epigynous, 

 rarely sub-hypogynous, imbricate or valvate. Stamens inserted with the 

 petals, equalling or double their number, rarely numerous. Ovary of 

 2 or 3-5 united carpels ; usually 2- or 3-5-celled with axile placentas, 

 occasionally 1 -celled with parietal placentas ; styles as many as the 

 carpels, distinct or combined nearly to the summits, stigmas capitate 

 or lateral and subcapitate ; ovules numerous, anatropous, erect or pen- 

 dulous. Fruit capsular or berried. Seeds numerous or several (solitary 

 in Polyosma) albuminous; the albumen rarely scanty or nearly want- 

 ing. Distrib. Species 580 ; in the cold or temperate regions of the 

 whole world and in the mountains of the tropics ; together with a few 

 genera of tropical trees. 

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