202 TUP: BOTANY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. 



tufts of 3 or 4 together. Bracts small lanceolate 

 covered with red tomentum. Pedicels rather stout T 3 ff 

 inch long, tomentose flowers green J inch across. Sepals 

 5 ovate obtuse imbricate pubescent. Petals twice as 

 long oblong or ovate oblong pale green glabrous, tube 

 very short. Stamens 5 adnate to the petals and oppo- 

 site to them, filaments shorter than the petals rather 

 thick and dilated at the base, anthers cordate acute 

 dorsifixed yellow. Staminodes very short acuminate 

 processes alternating with the corolla lobes and adnate 

 below to the tube. Disc thick annular strongly pubes- 

 cent. Ovary enclosed in disc small conic tapering into a 

 cylindric style shorter than the filaments, glabrous. 

 Stigma minute. Fruit an orange red berry long obovoid, 

 pulpy and sweet, seeds 1 or more, hard dark brown. 



This fine tree is common all over the plateau, but 

 generally scarce or absent from the shore terraces. 

 The fruit is much eaten by the pigeons Carpophaga who 

 swallow it whole. I have also seen the white-eyes peck- 

 ing at it and the red crab eating it. 



Distribution Pulau Sangian. (I have been unable to 

 locate this island on any map). 



The wood is of a smooth creamy white col our with fair- 

 ly distinct rings, rays very fine and close with numerous 

 fine transverse bars ; pores very small in straight lines 

 parallel with the rays, several conjoined with thin 

 partitions between. Weight 36 lbs the cubic foot. A 

 fine light and pretty wood. 



Ochrosia Acker in gae var angustifolia, Rendle. 



Tree about 40 feet tall, 6 inches or more through. 

 Leaves narrow elliptic lanceolate 3 to 6 inches long 

 •^-1 inch across acute or subacute acuminate at the 

 base dark green closely nerved. Corymbs 1 to 3 

 inches long on a 1 inch peduncle. Flowers fairly 

 numerous sessile with a small ovate bract - at the base. 

 Calyx short ^ inch lobes ovate acute.. Corolla tube -§ 



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