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the apex obtuse ; the base much narrowed, minutely sagittate ; upper sur- 

 face shining, the lower dull, chocolate-coloured when dry ; main nerves 

 numerous, sub-horizontal; length 5 to 10 in., breadth 1*25 to 2*75 in., 

 petiole under - 1 in. Flowers 1 in. in diam., in long-pedunculate axillary 

 umbellate racemes ; pedicels about *5 in. long, each with a sepal-like 

 bract near the flower. Sepals coriaceous, oblong, obtuse. Petals linear- 

 lanceolate, about as long as the sepals and reflexed like them. Stamens 

 elongate, shorter than the reflexed filaments. Ovary ovoid, obscurely 

 4-angled. Style single, stigma minute. Ripe fruit ovoid-globose, 1*25 

 to V5 in. long, sub-glabrous, the calyx and corolla persistent ; the 

 pericarp thick, fleshy. Bennett in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 526. 

 Ancistrocladus ? sagittatus, Wall. Cat. 1055. 



Singapore ; Wallich. Perak : Wray, Scortechini, King's collector. 

 Distrib. Sumatra. 



4. Euthemis, Jack. 



Glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, shining, coriaceous, serru- 

 late, with ciliate deciduous stipules. Flowers rose or white, in terminal 

 or leaf-opposed racemes or panicles, bracteate. Sepals 5, imbricate, 

 persistent or deciduous. Petals 5, longer than sepals, imbricate. Disc 

 small, conical. Stamens 5, inserted at the base of the disc, with 

 alternate staminodes, anthers opening by terminal pores. Ovary semi- 

 5-celled, elongate, viscid ; style 1, stigma entire ; ovules 1-2 in each 

 cell, pendulous. Fruit a berry of 5 pyrenes, each 1-2-seeded. Seeds 

 pendulous with a fleshy albumen. — Distrib. Species 4 ; all Malayan. 

 Leaves spinulose-serrate ; fruit white ... 1. E . leucocarpa. 



Leaves nearly entire ; fruit red ... ... 2. E. minor. 



1. Euthemis leucocarpa, Jack in Mai. Misc. No. V., p. 16. A 

 shrub 2 to 5 feet high : young branches rather stout, pale, glabrous, 

 lenticellate. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, tapering to each end, the edge 

 thickened inside the numerous spinulose serrations ; main nerves very 

 numerous, curved at first, then sub-horizontal, indistinct ; length 35 to 8 

 in., breadth 12 to 2 in. ; petiole "5 to l - 5 in., winged. Flowers "6 or "7 

 in. in diam, shortly pedicelled, generally in pairs ; bracts ovate, acute. 

 Sepals ovate, obtuse, ciliate, the two inner rather smaller. Petals longer 

 than the sepals, oblong-ovate, obtuse, reflexed. Anthers erect, connivent, 

 subsessile, oblong, acuminate at the apex, style filiform ; stigma small, 

 simple. Berry snow-white, sub-globular, '2 to '35 in. in diam., obscurely 

 angled, mesocarp spongy. Eoxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey), II, 303; Planchon 

 in Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 711. Bennett in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 526; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, Pt. 2 p. 675. 



In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar islands. 

 Disttub, Malayan Archipelago. 



