Timonius.] lxxt. kdbiace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 12T 



cupular, persistent. Corolla pubescent, coriaceous, fuiinel-shaped, glabrous- 

 ■within : lobes 4-5 (-10), valvate or slightly overlapping in bud. Anthers sub- 

 sessile in the throat, linear. Disic hispid. Ovart/ 6-10-celled; style short, 

 stout, hairy, branches 4-12, more or less combined ; ovules solitary, pendulous 

 in each cell, funicle thickened. Drupe ellipsoid, ovoid or globose ; pyrenes 

 4r-10, slender, erect or radiating outwards, or superposed. Seeds cylindric, testa 

 membranous, albumen scanty or ; embryo slender. — ^Disteib. Species about 

 20, tropical Asiatic and Oceanic. 



1. T. Jambosella, Thw. JSnum. 153 ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate minutely siUiy on the nerves beneath, § solitary long-peduncled. Bedd. 

 Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 190. T. flavescens. Baker Fl. Maurit. 144. Nelitris Jam- 

 bosella, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 134, t. 29, exel. syn. HeHospora flavescens, Jack in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 127, t. 4, f. 3 ; DC. Prodi: iv. 391. Eupyrena glabra, 

 W. (§• A. Prodr. 433. Bobea glabra, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 211. 

 Polyphragma flavescens, Kura For. Fl. ii. 38. Guettarda ? peduncularis. Wall. 

 Cat. 6222 ; Don Gen. Syst. iii. 551. G. Brunonis and G. missiones, Wall.. 

 Cat. 6220, 6221. 



Andaman Islands, Malay Peninsula, and Ceylon.— Distbib. Malay Archipe- 

 lago, Maviritius. 



A small evergreen tree ; branches slender. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2^ in., brown ■when 

 dry, coriaceous, nerves few ; petiole J-J in. ; stipules J in. Cymes $ long- or short- 

 peduncled, 3-1 2-flo'wered, flo^wers sessile. Calyx-tube obscurely toothed ; ^ terminal 

 on a stout peduncle, urn-shaped, campanulate in fruit. Corolla very variable, ^— J in. 

 long, silky-pubescent, lobes rounded. Vrnpe globose, J-^ in. long, rarely oblong, 

 ribbed. — There may be more than one Indian species, but the plant is so variable 

 that I am unable to decide. Wallich's G. ? Brunonis, from Singapore, has very 

 small leaves, and the S cymes have spreading many-flo'wered branches. The Ceylon 

 specimens have larger flo^wers than the Malayan. 



2. T. Zluxupliii, DC. Prodr. iv. 461 ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate siUty 

 beneath. Wall. Cat. 6217. Bobea Wallichiana, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch, 

 ii. 211.— Bumph. Herh. Amb. iii. 216, t. 140. 



Penang, Malacca, and Singapoee, Wallicli, &c. — Disteib. Malay Archipelago. 



Very similar to T. Jambosella, but the S cymes are usually shorter peduncled 

 and smaller, and the leaves often very silky beneath. I have, however, great diffi- 

 culty in distinguishing these species, and both seem to vary much in the pubescence 

 of the leaves and size of flo'wers ; the drupes are oblong or globose. Penang speci- 

 mens from Maingay have small leaves, 2J-3 in., almost glabrous beneath, and <? fl. 

 not ^ in. long ; they have ellipsoid or globose berries, and may be a different species. 



3. T. Finlaysonianus, Wall. Cat. 6i2S (Guettarda) ; glabrate, leaves- 

 obovate or elliptic-oblong tip rounded or obtuse glabrous beneath. Timonius, 

 Wall. Cat. 8446. Guettarda peduncularis. Wall. Cat. &23i2, in part. 



Singapoee, Wallicli, G. Thomson. 



Branches stout, glabrous. Leaves 3-6 in., narrowed into the very short petiole ;: 

 midrib strong, red ; nerves very slender. Flower $ not seen ; $ solitary or 2-nate 

 on pedicels \-\\ in. Drupe globose, nearly \ in. diam. — I doubt this being anything 

 but a variety of T. Jambosella, though the form of the leaf is very different, the 

 petiole shorter, and flo'wer larger. The specimens of this genus in Wallich's Her- 

 barium are much mixed. The sheet marked Finlaysonianus (6223) contains t-wo 

 specimens of what I think are different things (from Herb. Pinlayson) : one has 

 small (2 in.) dliptic acute leaves, and long pedicelled quite glabrous S flowers J in. 

 long, fascicled on a very short peduncle, with a glabrous long-pedicelled young fruit 

 from a lower axil ; the other specimen has ? flowers only, solitary in the axils, a 



