128 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2, 



7. Rtparosa caesia, Bl. Bijdr. 600 ; Byparia, Fl. Javae (praef. VIII). 

 A small teee, the brancklets and inflorescence ferrugineous-silky. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong, shortly acuminate, the base slightly narrowed ; 

 upper surface shining ; lower pale, rather densely adpressed-sericeous ; 

 nerves 5 to 6 pairs, ascending ; length 6 to 9 in. ; breadth 2 to 3 in. ; 

 petiole 1'25 in., stout, thickened in its upper fourth. Bacemes solitary, 

 supra-axillary, the female longer than the leaves. Male flowers ; sepals and 

 petals 4, tomentose, the latter with a small basal hairy scale. Staminal 

 tube short, glabrous ; anthers 4, broadly ovate, reflexed. Fruit crowned 

 by the 2 shortly-stalked fleshy radiating reniform emarginate stigmas, 

 globose, ferruginous- tomentose, '5 to '7 in. diam. Hassk. PL Javan. 

 Ear. 267 : Baillon Euphorb. 339. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 361. 

 DC. Prod. XV, 2 p. 1260. Kurz in Journ. Bot. 1873, p. 233. 



Java, Blume. Sumatra; Teysmann, Forbes, at an elevation of 3,500 

 feet. 



Blume describes the lower sui'faces of the leaves as " tenuiter 

 strigosis " ; but the hairs, although adpressed, are not stiff but silky. 

 This is the only species in which the hairs on the lower surface of the 

 leaves are at all conspicuous. The leaves of the Andaman plant referred 

 to B. caesia by Kurz are nearly glabrous beneath. 



Order X. PITTOSPORE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or subverticillate, quite entire 

 (very rarely toothed) ; exsfcipulate. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, 

 terminal or axillaiy. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, imbri- 

 cate. Torus small. Stamens 5, opposite the sepals ; anthers versatile. 

 Ovary 1-celled, with 2-5 parietal placentas, or 2-5-celled by the pro- 

 jection of the placentas ; style simple, stigma terminal 2-5-lobed ; 

 ovules many, parietal or axile, anatropous. Fruit capsular or indehis- 

 ceDt. Seeds usually many, albumen copious ; embryo small, radicle 

 next the hilum. — Distrib. Genera 9 ; species about 90, chiefly Aus- 

 tralian. 



1. Pittosporum, Banks. 



Erect trees or shrubs. Sepals free or connate below. Petals erect, 

 claws connivent or connate. Stamens 5, erect ; anthers 2-celled, in- 

 trorse, bursting by slits. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, incompletely 

 2-3-celled ; ovules 2 or more on each placenta. Capsule 1-celled, woody, 

 2- rarely 3-valved ; valves placentiferous in the middle. Seeds smooth, 

 imbedded in pulp. Distrib. Species about 50, subtropical Asiatic, 

 Australian, and Oceanic. 



