212 Oh King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



Cymes glabrous or glabrescent, 4 to 6 in. in diam., the branches oppo- 

 site ; bracts minute, persistent. Flowers '25 in. in diam., glabrous. 

 Stamens 4, perfect ; the filaments longer than the petals and style, the 

 4 staminodes minute. Ripe cocci about *5 in. long, keeled. Seeds 

 oblong, the nucleus basal, much smaller than the oblong wing. Tetra- 

 merista paniculata, Kurz in Journ. Bot for 1875, p. 333. 



Malacca ; Maingay ( Kew Distrib. ) No. 290. 



A rare plant known only by Maingay's scanty specimens. 



2. Tetractomia Roxburghii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I., 491. A tree 

 30 to 80 feet high ; young branches rather stout, glabrous, their 

 bark pale, rough. Leaves coriaceous, cimeate-obovate, sometimes obo- 

 vate-elliptic, the apex always broad and rounded, and very shortly 

 and bluntly apiculate, much narrowed to the petiole ; both surfaces 

 glabrous, rather pale when dry, the upper glabrous, the lower glabres- 

 cent with numerous and rather large black dots : main nerves 7 to 9 

 pairs, oblique, straight, not prominent : length 2*5 to 5, rarely 6 in., 

 breadth 15 to 2'5, rarely 3 in. ; petiole '5 to 1 in., rarely 125 in. 

 Cymes glabrous in the lower, pubescent in the upper part, 3 or 4 in. in 

 diam., pedunculate; bracts minute, persistent. Flowers "13 in. in 

 diam., puberulous. Stamens 8, the alternate row imperfect, minute 

 and attached to the petals. Ripe cocci 1 to 3 from a flower, about 

 •25 in. long. Seeds oblong, nucleus rather shorter than the wing, 

 Hook. fil. Icones Plantar. 1512. Melicope tetrandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 

 257. 



Penang, Singapore, Perak. 



A much more common plant than the last, with smaller flowers 

 and fruit, and with leaves not only smaller but much more obovate. 



3. Melicope, Forst. 

 Shrubs. Leaves opposite (in the Indian species), 1— 3-foliolate, pel- 

 lucid-punctate. Flowers small, in axillary cymes or panicles. Calyx 

 4-lobed or 4-partite. Petals 4, sessile, spreading, valvate or imbricate. 

 Disc large, entire or 8-lobed, or obsolete. Stamens 8, inserted at the base 

 of the disk, those opposite the petals shorter, filaments subulate or 

 flattened ; anthers oblong or cordate. Ovary 4-celled, deeply 4-lobed ; 

 style basilar, or styles 4, subterminal, more or less combined ; stigma 

 capitate, 4-lobed ; ovules 2 in each, all collateral or superposed. Fruit 

 of 4 free spreading coriaceous cocci, dehiscing on the inner face ; endo- 

 carp more or less separating from pericarp. Seeds oblong, testa black, 

 shining ; embryo with large oblong cotyledons and short radicle. Distrib. 

 chiefly Polynesian: species about 15. 



1. Melicope Helferi, Hook. fil. Fl. Br, Ind. I, 492. A glabrous 



