1890.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 195 



suggested by the late Dr. Anderson and Mr. Dyer (Journ, Lion. Soc. 

 xiii, 331), Adinandra acuminata, Korth. 



4. Ecrya, Tlmnb. 



Shrubs. Leaves narrow, usually crenate-serrate. Floioers small, 

 unisexual, sessile or shortly pedicelled, in axillary fascicles, rarely 

 solitary, with persistent bracfceoles. Sepals 5. Petals 5, united at the 

 base. Stame?is 15 or less, rarely 5 ; anthers glabrous. Ovary 3 (rarely 

 2-5)-celled; styles 3 (rarely 2-5) free or united; ovules many in the 

 inner angle of each cell. Fruit baccate. Albumen fleshy. Distrib. 

 S. E. Asia, Indian Archipelago and Pacific Islands ; described species 

 more than 30, probably reducible to 10 . 



1. Eurya acuminata, DO. Mem. Ternst. 29. A tree 30 to 40 feet 

 high : young branches slender, pubescent to minutely tomentose. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate, 

 serrulate, the base acute ; upper surface glabrous, shining- ; the lower 

 paler, pubescent especially on the midrib, or sub-glabrous ; length 2'5 

 to 3'5 in., breadth - 5 to '75 in., petiole - 1 in. or none. Flowers "25 in. 

 in diam., in 2 to 6-flowered clusters ; pedicels short, pubescent, bracteo- 

 late. Buds globose. Sepals unequal, the outer smsdler, rotund with a 

 thickened wrinkled patch near the base, pubescent externally. Petals 

 larger and thinner than the sepals, oblong, blunt, veined, glabrous. 

 Male flowers : stamens about 12, glabrous ; filaments slender, anthers 

 oblong, blunt ; rudimentary ovary conic without styles, or absent. 

 Female flower as in the male, but the sepals and petals smaller and 

 narrower ; stamens ; ovary ovoid-conic; smooth, 3 or (by abortion) 

 2-celled, multi-ovulate ; styles 3, united or free in the lower two-thirds, 

 cylindric, about as long as the ovary. Stigmas on the inner surfaces of 

 the upper part of the styles. Fruit globular, - 15 in. in diam., smooth, 

 subtended by the persistent calyx and crowned by the styles. Seeds 

 small, angled, pitted, shining, brown. Diospyros serrata, Ham. in Don 

 Prod. PL Nep. 143. 



In all the provinces at low elevations, common. Distrib. Sub- 

 tropical Himalaya, Assam, Chittagong and Burmese Ranges, Malay 

 Archipelago, Fiji Islands. 



In a plant with such a wide distribution, variations in form are 

 only to be expected. Many of these have been treated as species which, 

 in Sir J. D. Hooker's Flora of British India, Mr. Thiselton Dyer has re- 

 duced to varieties as follows : 



Var. 1. euprista, Korths. Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 113 (sp.) ; 

 styles distinct. Griff. Ic. 604, f. 3. E. multiflora, DC. 1. c. 25. E. 

 serrata, Blumc Fl. Jav. proef. vii. E. angustifolia, Wall. Cat. 1465. 

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